I like to think I’m pretty smart when it comes to spotting scams and hoaxes, especially ones that circulate via e-mail.  I only forward stuff that has made me laugh or that I think other folks will find interesting. I never, ever forward anything that has to do with religion, forward any sort of chain message or anything looking to raise money so that some six year old Guatamalen boy can have two mystery testicles removed from  his forehead. I think I help keep my contacts’ inboxes’ clutter free.

On the off chance that I get something that I’m not sure about, I head on over to Snopes and do a search on it.  Most of the times, it turns out to be spam or just an urban legend making it’s way through the interwebs. The “delete” button in my inbox is used often.

When I got an e-mail from S the other day about two labradors who needed a home. S had received the e-mail from our friend Darla who had received it from a co-worker. A quick search on Snopes didn’t turn up anything. Thinking that the person who initiated the e-mail was a co-worker of Darla’s, I let myself believe that Cookie and Coco really were in need of a home.

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