"Where are you going, Chicken-Little?"
"Oh, The sky is falling!
I am going to tell the king."

 Got an email from a friend with a hot news
item that seems just a touch off-kilter?
Before you panic and send out your own
blast-o-gram, check out the veracity
of the story first. It may help put some
sanity back into this life we're living.

Trying to not pass on false information, stories, & ETC:
Beware of hoax e-mails. It pays to check out forwarded items from
whatever source. More than often they have no basis, or a very
tenuous basis in fact.  It only takes a few seconds to uncover
most hoaxes, urban legends, misrepresentations, overblown warnings,
and other "Forward this immediately to all your friends..."
e-mails that you receive.  It could save egg-on-the-face and it reduces
the useless junk that tends to fill everyone's mailbox to overflowing.
AND - Just trying to not pass on little worms or big viruses

Click on any title below to go to that page

http://www.snopes.com
This might be the number one site used

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Current Health Related Hoaxes and Rumors.
http://www.cdc.gov/hoax_rumors.htm

HoaxBusters - Published by the Computer Incident Advisory
Capability of the US Department of Energy.
http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/

Internet Scambusters - avoid being taken by Internet scams and fraud.
http://www.scambusters.org/809Scam.html

NetSquirrel.com - A good resource.
Has some of the older legends that live on and on.
http://netsquirrel.com/combatkit/

Urban Legends and Folklore
Comprehensive rumor control and information from the About folks.
http://www.urbanlegends.about.com/

Truth or Fiction - your e-mail reality check
http://www.truthorfiction.com/

Snopes - "Rumor Has It" Maybe the number one site
http://www.snopes.com