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The Sunday Snopes is a regular feature at fracas.

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.

(You may also want to check out Breakthechain.org for more information on those nasty email chain letters and such. Just say no to forwarding junk.)

Previous Sunday Snopes

June 3, 2007
May 27, 2007
May 20, 2007
May 13, 2007
May 6, 2007 (No Snopes feature posted)
April 29, 2007
April 22, 2007
April 15, 2007
April 8, 2007
April 1, 2007
March 25, 2007
March 18, 2007
March 11, 2007
March 4, 2007
February 25, 2007
February 18, 2007
February 11, 2007
February 4, 2007