What Do You Do When You Receive A Forwarded Email Hoax

What do you do when a friend sends you a forward letter claiming great prizes that you know is an Internet Hoax?  Do you:

1. Do nothing
2. Inform the individual that he is technicapped and that this is a long running hoax
3. Continue forwarding the message to loved ones
4. Thank them

Personally, I choose option #2 so I can properly make fun of them.  And I recently took this approach when a friend forwarded this email to me (and the rest of his poor contact book):

THIS TOOK TWO PAGES OF THE TUESDAY USA TODAY – IT IS FOR REAL To all of my friends, I do not usually forward messages, But this is from my friend Pearlas Sandborn and she really is an attorney.  If she says that this will work – It will work. After all,What have you got to lose?  SORRY EVERYBODY.. JUST HAD TO TAKE THE CHANCE!!! I’m an attorney, And I know the law. This thing is for real. Rest assured AOL and Intel will follow through with their promises for fear of facing a multimillion-dollar class action suit similar to the one filed by PepsiCo against General Electric not too long a go.  Dear Friends: Please do not take this for a junk letter.  Bill Gates sharing his fortune. If you ignore this, You will repent later .  Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and AOL are running an e-mail beta test.  When you forw ard this e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will track it (If you are a Microsoft Windows user) For a two weeks time period.  For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay you $245.00 For every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, Microsoft will pay you $243.00 and for every third person that receives it, You will be paid $241.00. Within two weeks, Microsoft will contact you for your address and then send you a check.

Now, I for one love receiving money but do you really think Bill Gates is going to be handing out checks for forwarding along this crap.  I have to believe nothing in life is ever this easy.  The email campaign isn’t even well put together.  But that hasn’t stopped the masses from continuing to forward this message essentially clogging others mailboxes!  Snopes breaks down this Microsoft and AOL hoax brilliantly.

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