1.      Big companies don't do business via chain letter. Bill Gates is
not giving you $1000, and Disney is not giving you a free vacation. There
is no baby food company issuing class-action checks. MTV will not give
you a backstage passes if you forward something to the most people. You can
relax; there is no need to pass it on "just in case it's true."

Furthermore, just because someone said in the message, four generations
back, that "we checked it out and it's legit," does not actually make it
true.
  
2.  There is no kidney theft ring in New Orleans. No one is waking up
in a bathtub full of ice, even if a friend of a friend swears it
happened to their cousin. If you are hell-bent on believing the kidney-theft ring
stories, please see:
http://urbanlegends.tqn.com/library/weekly/aa062997.htm  
And I quote: "The National Kidney Foundation has repeatedly issued quests for actual
victims of organ thieves to come forward and tell their stories.  None have.
That's "none" as in "zero." Not even your friend's cousin.
  
3.      Neiman Marcus doesn't really sell a $200 cookie recipe. And even
if they did, we all have it. And even if you don't, you can get a copy at:
http://www.bl.net/forwards/cookie.html   
Then, if you make the recipe, decide the cookies are that awesome, 
feel free to pass the recipe on (without the fake story please).

4.      If the latest NASA rocket disaster(s) DID contain plutonium that
went to particulate over the eastern seaboard, do you REALLY think this
information would reach the public via an AOL chain-letter?
  
5.      There is no "Good Times" virus. In fact, you should never, ever,
ever forward any email containing any virus warning unless you first
confirm it through an actual site of an actual company that actually
deals with viruses. Try: http://www.norton.com/   And you cannot get a virus
from a flashing IM or email, you have to download it....ya know, like, a
FILE!
  
6.      If your cc: list is regularly longer than the actual content of
your message, you probably already have it stored in your old 8088,
Franklin, or Adam computer.
  
7.      If you still absolutely MUST forward that 10th-generation message
from a friend, at least have the decency to trim the eight miles of
headers showing everyone else who's received it over the last 6 months.
It sure wouldn't hurt to get rid of all the " " or << that begins each line.
Besides, if it has gone around that many times we've probably already
seen it anyway.
  
8.      Craig Shergold  (or Sherwood, or Sherman, etc.) in England is not
dying of cancer or anything else at this time and would like everyone to
stop sending him their business cards. He apparently is also no longer a
"little boy" either.
  
9.      The "Make a Wish" foundation is a real organization doing fine
work, but they have had to establish a special toll free hot line in
response to the large number of Internet hoaxes using their good name
and reputation. It is distracting them from the important work they do.

10.     If you are one of those insufferable people who forwards
anything that promises "something bad will happen if you don't," too
late...you're a lost cause already!
 
11.     The CEO Proctor & Gamble has NEVER been a guest on any of the TV
talk shows to proclaim P&G's allegiance to Satan...even Sally Jesse's
(see for yourself at:  http://www.sallyjr.com/faq.html ).  All the disclaimers
to this fact are posted on the various shows web sites. This is one of the
longest running hoaxes anywhere...way before email was ever known by
most people. (For a complete list of the info. ref.: http://www.pg.com/rumor/)
P&G is NOT a satanic organization, although I'm sure Satan sure is
smiling over all the prolific emails that says it is and probably says thanks to
all the 'lost souls' who pass this garbage on!
  
12.     I am not even gonna touch the red spiders in the commode, the
hypodermic needles in the theater seats, the car headlights/gang hoax,
etc, etc, etc.....   Bottom Line... composing e-mail or posting something
on the Net is as easy as writing on the walls of a public restroom.
Don't automatically believe it until it's proven false...ASSUME it's false,
unless there is proof that it's true.
  
Enjoy this wonderful 'tool' we have available to us and use
it wisely, please think before clicking!
 
Now, forward this message to ten friends and you will win the Publishers
Clearing House sweepstakes... I SWEAR!!  ;-)