Should people research emails they send, before sending them?
By mahmah
@mahmah (436)
United States
April 30, 2007 8:08am CST
Today I received an email that stated "don't buy pepsi in the new cans". Now this sounded familiar to me but I read the email anyways. It of course was one of those annoying spam emails (almost like a chain letter). As I do with all of them before I pass them on, I looked it up on Snopes.com. Sure enough, it was a old one from November of 2001. And it didn't have anything to do with Pepsi. So I guess my question here would be: Should I notify the sender that it is spam? If you were the sender would you want to know that it wasn't true? I won't even pass one on without checking it out first...
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
30 Apr 07
I got a warning email from one of my friend which coincidentally I had seen here on myLot and as I knew it was a hoax. I called her and told her. She begged my to send her the link to snopes where is had that particular email listed as a hoax. She wanted it so that she could send it to the people who had sent it to her. So my answer to you is yes. You will save them some embarrassment before they send it to anyone else.
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@1983tyler (507)
• United States
30 Apr 07
When I get one of these emails, I usually tell the sender that it isn't true and give them the snopes.com link. I hope that the sender appreciates it, I know I would want to know.
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@emeraldisle (13139)
• United States
5 May 07
I check things like that out first as well before sending them on to others. If it is a hoax thing I let the sender know and I also let them know where they can check it out. Some times that gets them to check in future but often times it doesn't. Most just seem to like to hit that forward button and don't care. It's like putting everyone in the to spot, even though that means everyone gains access to those emails. If they would take the time and do bcc it would help.
