It’s bad enough that people will forward emails to you with information that either is totally false, an hoax or is misleading. What is worst is when they come from someone who really should know better.
Yesterday I was told by an associate that Cell Phone Numbers are in the process of being release to telemarketers and that you should register your number on the Do Not Call List.
I have seen this exact email come around every 6 months or so for a number of years. The person who show it to me is in a profession that it should have been natural to check the facts before forwarding.
The facts are at my technology blog smbtechnologytips.com.
Rarely has an email been forwarded to me delivering some type of warning message, has that message been totally true. Unlike this email about cell phone and the Do Not Call list which has many true points, most of the times it’s totally untrue or an hoax and at worst a scam.
And it really only takes a second to check for the validity of an email. Do a google search or go to snopes.com.
Even if it comes from someone who you trust, I suspect that’s what happened yesterday with my associate, it’s better to just have it sit in the in box doing nothing, than to send it off to friends.