Do you still receive such crap? Well I received this a while ago. Seriously, I just cant stop laughing on the amount of forwards this mail has received. Huge list that stretches it self all the way down. 

This are called urban myths. Just like the one’s we get. Forward, forward, forward and forward. Sometimes people do get blindfolded with all this silly hoax going around. If you lived in Malaysia, recently about 2 months back, there was this hilarious hoax claiming that a mobile tower would be generating some huge amount of radiation and would hit all phones at 10.p.m above. And therefore do not on your phone from 10 p.m onwards. 

Such messages were forwarded on SMS and the best part, it was so convincing, many people fell for it. From switching off phone, I was monitoring blogs that night. I could see some hilarious same messages in various formats that were published by fellow bloggers. Thanks to Google blog search though.

Coming back to the email above, which are known as urban myths & legends. If you ever received such, I would suggest you to pay a visit to Snopes.com. A place I used to visit some time back to check on such emails. And guess what, the AOL/Microsoft tracking and payment issue is listed under the top 25 urban myths. If you ever stumbled across a new myth, feel free to register them at Snopes. By the way, the AOL/Microsoft myth started way back in 2004(record history on Snopes). 

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