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On 19/03/2009 06:33, Simon Waters wrote: > Dave Foxcroft wrote: > >> dont do anything ... just ignore it and delete! >> > > I just write back to the person who sent it on indiscriminately saying > "don't send on emails without checking if it is genuine". > > #1 in Google for "Simon Ashton" > http://www.hoax-slayer.com/simon25-hacker-hoax.shtml > > My family now forward anything they aren't sure about rather than bother > their friends, which I guess is progress of a sort. > > > I agree with this, I used to get this a lot where I used to work. I ended up putting a stop to it by asking everyone to e-mail them to me first, if they were genuine I would get someone higher up to send them out, and if they were hoaxes 9 times out of 10 they were I would let the person know and point them in the direction of the Hoax Slayer site or at least advise them to try searching for text from the e-mail on Google. I had one yesterday as a matter of fact about a missing girl in the states, turns out it was genuine but it was a version of an original e-mail which was sent out and it was missing a whole load of information. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html