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One the real March 18, Fracas was bedridden with an icky virus that just doesn’t know when enough is enough. Aren’t you lucky… today you’ll get the March 18 Sunday Snopes as well as the March 25 Sunday Snopes.

Killer Sperm

Two weeks ago, the Sunday Snopes feature dealt with whether or not internet users can obtain free laptop computers from Ericsson for forwarding an email message to eight friends.

Anyone who uses email is bound to, at some point or another, receive an email containing a ‘warning’ about some terrible crime or event that they should beware of. These emails always tell the recipient to pass it along to everyone they know in order to warn others and ’save’ someone else from the same terrible fate. Most often, these emails contain some sort of claim relating the event or crime in the warning, to a specific location or police department in order to convince the recipient of its authenticity.

In mostly every case, these email warnings are hoaxes, nothing more than malicious chain letters that scare the uninformed into becoming pawns in the spamming of hundreds of thousands of people.

Snopes.com is a credible place to verify such stories you might receive. As a regular Sunday feature, fracas will highlight a different story each week to do our part in stopping or lessening the impact of the distribution of such stories.

Sunday Snopes Snippets

Sunday, March 18, 2007:

Claim: Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide.

Status: False.

Please click here to read the rest of the snopes.com write-up regarding this false claim.

Please bookmark fracas. Your next Sunday Snopes feature will be posted on Sunday, March 25, 2007!