[citw150] CITW 150 Lesson 3 Question 5

http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBScareChains.shtml#halloweenmall
http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBScareChains.shtml#arabcandy

I was interested that there were more than one scare hoax that involved 
Halloween.  It is understandable, people dressing in costumes and doing door 
to door for candy could give people a lot to be afraid of.  But email 
doesn't seem to be the most reliable source for information or warnings.  
These two hoaxes definitely show that.  The first one reports that the 
infamous friend of a friend was dating a guy.  In my opinion that should be 
when you should know it is a hoax.  That is, if you didn't stop reading when 
the sender claims that she doesn't send out hoaxes.  The second one actually 
asks you to send it out to 15 more people.  After all the chain letters out 
there, I wonder why people still do it.  Half of the email I get is spam, 
and the last thing I want is to get a chain mail or hoax forwarded on from 
someone that I do actually open emails from.

Well, thanks for reading what I think about Halloween hoax emails.

Stephanie Funk

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