If you are sent an obvious MAde up email

[FolornHope]

you know like rape alert or wear red on fridays for the army kind

do you just a) delete
b) email back saying this is an urban myth
c) er ..anything else

ignore - usually they're from my boss. i just put it down to her being a fruit loop

Do you mean sent from a friend or the 'I used to be the King of Bolivia and I've got a £squillion to give to you'

Either way I usually ignore.

no one of those warning ones
like fake police officer

I always believe em and then get told its an urban myth when I've passed it on! lol

I endured an endless stream of these from my poor gullible MIL, and eventually got DH to put her straight about them. I don't think she believed us that they were fake though. Plus she does revel in a bit of misery and drama.

Google them and then smugly tell the sender that its an urban myth thats been doing the rounds for years and has probably infected their computer with a horrible virus

Go to Snopes.com, look it up and then email her back with the link saying, "I looked it up for you and its a hoax. This site's really interesting and tells you all the hoaxes, if you're unsure".

I never get these, just ones from Evans and Tesco

I politely ignore/delete. The only time I've responded is when the local Headmaster fell for some Free Dell Laptop scam and forwarded an email to all and sundry - I replied saying it was a scam and we have Never Mentioned It Again.

Delete email.

Demote sender of email of my ranking of friends scale.

apparently those are the ones which carry the viruses, so i hear. i delete.

DS school forwarded one the other day which they had been sent by West Sussex Police. You'd think the rozzers would know how to use Snopes!

i always feel quite embarrased for the person who sent it tbh

especiall when they have sent to 20+ people

Delete.
They are always from my mum - when I try and explain she smiles pityingly and says 'but it was sent by XXX and they know all about computers'

An old school friend on Facebook posted that one about the people shaving a kid's head in the loos of Sainsbury's so they could abduct it. I almost posted back a link to it on Snopes, but didn't want to embarrass her, so just ignored it.

If it is something concerning and an urban myth then I reply to all posting a link to disprove. Other than that I delete without comment. I get fed up with the pass on to 10 friends emails.

I post the snopes link and then take the piss out of that person mercilously for approximately six months for being gullible

I tend to reply with the snopes link. And then those people stop sending me mass-forward emails altogether, which seems like a win all round.

am I the only one who passes judgement on the sender? I can't be can I?

Depends who sends the email. I got sick of it from my mum though and she now has a post it next to her monitor that tells her to check snopes before forwarding it to me.

Depends on my mood and who sent it. Sometimes ignore and delete, other times respond saying its an urban myth.

Bit like those frigging texts 'An angel is smiling down on you...send to 10 friends' or some bollocks. They drive me INSANE! Just the phone company's way of getting sentimental sods to spend money sending texts!

I delete them. And from then on think less of the person who sent it!

I read a great email ages ago, that I'd love to send, but I think it would be too rude!

I just want to thank all of you for your educational e-mails over the past year.

Thanks to you, I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water buffalo on a hot day.

Thanks to you, I have learned that my prayers only get answered if I forward an e-mail to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes.

Because of your concern, I no longer drink Coca Cola because it can remove toilet stains.

I no longer can buy petrol without taking someone along to watch the car so a serial killer won't crawl in my back seat when I'm fueling.

And thanks for letting me know I can't boil a cup of water in the microwave anymore because it will blow up in my face... Disfiguring me for life.

I no longer check the coin return on pay phones because I could be pricked with a needle infected with AIDS.

I must send my thanks to whoever sent me the one about rat poo in the glue on envelopes because I now have to use a wet towel with every envelope that needs sealing.

I no longer go to shopping centres because someone will drug me with a perfume sample and rob me.

I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a number for which I will get a phone bill with calls to Jamaica, Uganda, Singapore, and Uzbekistan.

I no longer eat KFC because their chickens are actually rats.

Thanks to you, I can't use anyone's toilet but mine because a big brown African spider is lurking under the seat to cause me instant death when it bites my backside.

And thanks to your great advice I can't ever pick up £5.00 dropped in the car park because it probably was placed there by a sex molester waiting underneath my car to grab my leg.

I can't do any gardening because I'm afraid I'll get bitten by a spider and my hand will fall off.

I no longer have any savings because I gave it all to little Penny Brown who is about to die in the hospital for the 1,387,258th time.

I no longer have any money at all, but that will change once I receive the £15,000 that Bill Gates/Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating in their special e-mail program.

Or from the senior bank clerk in Nigeria who wants me to split £7 million with me for pretending to be a long lost relative of a customer who died intestate.

I no longer worry about my soul because I have 363,214 angels looking out for me, and St. Theresa's Novena has granted my every wish.

If you don't send this e-mail to at least 144,000 people in the next 70 minutes, a large dove with diarrhoea will land on your head at 5:00 p.m. Tomorrow afternoon the fleas from 12 camels will infest your back, causing you to grow a hairy hump. I know this will occur because it actually happened to a friend of my next door neighbour's ex-mother-in-law's second husband's cousin's beautician...

By the way....a South American scientist after a lengthy study has discovered that people with low IQ who have infrequent sexual activity always read their e-mails with their hand on the mouse.

Don't bother taking it off now, it's too late!