Bogus Emails - check them out first

Everyday we are bombarded with emails sent by friends and acquaintances which purport to be the absolute truth and relate to us dire warnings about eating this or that, touching whatever, using something, predicting something awful will happen to our loved ones in a parking lot, preaching some falsehood about somebody, some religion, some ethnicity, some person, some whatever, or warning us not to open any emails with a certain subject line.

And what do we do about it?  We dutifully forward it on to our address list, our family and friends, and clog the internet with useless junk.

PLEASE, if you get one of these emails, AND THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM, ALWAYS assume it is bogus and check it out FIRST with a recognized authority like www.snopes.com.