Rob wrote:
> CNN reported that in the next two weeks, Congress is
> going to vote on allowing telephone companies to charge for Internet
> access. That means, every time we send a long distance e-mail we will
> receive a long distance charge. This will get costly. Please
> visit to the
> following web site and complain. Complain to your Congressman.
> Don't allow
> this to pass.
> http://www.house.gov/writerep
> Pass this on to your friends. It is urgent!
> I hope all of you will pass this on to all your friends and family.
> All of us have an interest in this one.
> PLEASE FORWARD TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW TODAY BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!
Sorry, Rob, but you've been had.
That urban legend has been around for years.
Congress is _not_ voting on any such issue--and e-mail will _not_ cost by
the message unit.
BTW, you begin your message as though you _personally_ heard the report
on CNN. That's a great way to convince people of the validity of such a
story. Please be sure when you receive one of these hoaxes via email
(which has to be the way you received this one--CNN made no such report)
you let people know where it came from--it keeps them from questioning
your own reliability.
You can reasonably assume that _any_ email message you receive that
instructs you to forward it to others is a hoax. Like the "Good Times"
virus hoax (which is STILL floating around) nearly all hoaxes contain such
instructions in order to insure they will be perpetuated.
Rick
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Rick Adams
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Department of Social Sciences
Jackson Community College, Jackson, MI
"... and the only measure of your worth and your deeds
will be the love you leave behind when you're gone."
Fred Small, J.D., "Everything Possible"
