Hey – did you get the notice in your Inbox about how you can make money by simply forwarding messages, to help Microsoft and AOL test an e-mail tracking system?

What about the e-mail promising you a free Applebees gift certificate, if you forward it to nine friends?

Chances are, you’ve seen these e-mails and many others with similar promises, rumors or allegations.

You can’t reach through the Internet and throttle the senders, but you can send a message that steers them to an authoritative source.

Where can you tell them to go?

The Top 10 Internet myth-buster sites:
1. www.snopes.com
2. urbanlegends.about.com
3. www.breakthechain.org
4. www.sophos.com/security/
hoaxes
5. www.f-secure.com/virus-info/hoax
6. http://vmyths.com
7. www.symantec.com/business/
security_response/threatexplorer/
risks/hoaxes.jsp
8. www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/
hoaxes
9. http://virusbusters.itcs.umich.
edu//hoaxes.html
10. www.truthorfiction.com

Not getting enough rumor-mongering spam?

You can still get a kick out of sampling these sites, and seeing what people fall for.

Tags: Internet, spam