Posts Tagged "Snopes.com"

I hate to be cynical, but . . .

Posted by Doherty on May 1, 2010 in Social Networking | 0 comments

Image by astanhope via Flickr If you are like me, you get a %&**load of spams a day. Thrown into the mix is the occasional tear jerker or promise to support brain cancer if you simply click here. The web’s equivalent of an Urban Legend. I got such an email this morning from a dear friend, but I was suspicious of its authenticity. It involved helping a 2-year old Tsunami victim. Of course being the cynical bastard that I am, I wondered if it was a scam. So off I went to my favorite “is it a scam” website – http://www.snopes.com/. And yes, they had my answer. It turns out the request was genuine, but outdated. Fortunately, the young lad had...