Email hoaxes and Urban Legends

Oldie but goodie

Poynter's Sree Sreenivasan reminds us to check the authenticity of email before forwarding it.

We've all heard about the child dying of cancer that wants to get into the Guinness World Book of Records by receiving the most greeting cards... Once sorta true, he reached his goal by 1990 (yep, 15 years ago) and also underwent an successful surgery that removed the tumor.

Two great internet resources to check the validity of email claims and pleas are:
UrbanLegends.com
Snopes.com

Each not only gives you a true or false but also provides the history of the email.