I don't want to shock anyone, but get ready to be rattled.

That email chain letter you received might not be genuine and might even contain false

statements.

Hooks claims calls to join social campaigns, fundraisers for non-existent sick children, and many

more such garbage spams fill your inbox every day, and are not likely to stop anytime soon.

We're going to have a look at some of these, right now, unskeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Email Myths.

You'll never believe what I got in my email this morning?

Apparently Microsoft is going to send me $1 for every person I forward this email to.

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