<font color=skyblue>Don't you love it when a family member or friend sends you a forward to some piece of crap hoax or scam and wants you to buy into it like they did...and when you send them a snopes report to prove the e-mail as a phoney..they get pissed at you for saving their asses!?!?!
WTF???!!!

Foolish people. They are mad because their dreams of "get-rich-quick" just got flushed down the toilet where it belonged, and want to blame somebody for the loss, instead of realizing that they are idiots. </font>

<font color=8fbc8f>A-men brother!</font>

Some people just have to learn the hard way.

Some people just have to learn the hard way, over and over and over again.

It sounds like this rant may have been brought on by a recent incident. Please, larry, continue...

<font color=skyblue>The e-mail scam where they send a message around saying that AOL and Intel, the two largest blah, blah, blah...will give you $245 dollars for every person you forward the message to so that Bill Gates can see how many people still use Explorer...or something like that.

Here...these are the snopes links...

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/microsoft-aol.asp

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/nothing.asp

These are the "money for nothing" hoaxes...I just cannot believe that they have been in circulation since 1997, and people still believe in them just because they changed the title.</font>

The hoaxes will continue to work until the basic traits of greed and gullibility are bred out of the human race, and a more healthy dose of skepticism is bred in.

I have a number of friends and relatives that do things like that. I think if there were an easier way for them to accept their mistakes with dignity, it would be easier... but they all seem to need to justify that they sent it because it could have been real, or something silly like that...

I've given up trying to help many of them... I just ignore them now. See you at Thanksgiving, Mom... :D

Count yourself lucky Larry. You don't have any family members or relatives who would say " Buy this or else we cut off our ties! " :rolleyes:

<font color=skyblue>Now that sounds like an interesting story worthy of hearing.
Share as you see fit. </font>

Oh, I am glad I know no-one who falls for these.

I got one once, nothing more. But i couldn´t believe it because of common sense saying it was ridicilous. But i think its a much better way to get attention than life-treathening chainmails. (i got threatened by "Sonny" who had a "knife", too bad i cant believe that he really travels around the earth searching for non-forwarders).