Do you believe those 'helpful' emails?

Question

The ones tat tell you what KFC does to it's chickens? The ones that tell you you can open your car doors by calling someone on your cell and having them press the spare remote into the phone and holding your phone near the door?
The ones that tell you a guy is hiding under cars and hamstringing women when they go to unlock their door?

I mean someone has to believe them or they would all end up in the recycle bin before they got to me.

Answer 1

unfortunately many people do believe these scam emails. these are 99% urban legends, and basically serve no purpose but to suck up band width by being forwarded to "everyone in your address list" by simple, but well-intentioned people all over the country...

i always go directly to www.snopes.com and search for the hoax/story in the email. when i find it, i either copy & paste it or the link to the page, and "reply to all" with the debunking info. i especially dislike the ones that spread racial or political sterotypes - those are the worst. people are judgemental enough as it is and the really prejudiced people don't need any more encouragement. and frankly, we all have a right to our own opinions about politics, but that doesn't mean we should foist those opinions on everyone in our address book...

Answer 2

It depends.

Some are just repititions of other emails that whoever gets and that person just changes the names and things. I got quite a few VERY similar ones.

Some just want to raise your awareness. Don't think that it's always safe and that nothing bad will ever happen to you.

Also, this is a method for spammers to get multiple email addresses without having to search. It just comes to them. All they need to do is wait. Everyone forwarding and forwarding again to everyone else. What goes around, comes around.

Yeah, http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com
Pity the chickens. Whoever likes KFC, do click the link. Though it won't be just KFC, many others(restaurant chains/farms etc) do so as well, just not at such an exposed level. (BTW, I didn't get any mail regarding that. But it was one of the Featured on Yahoo!)

Answer 3

Nope! I definitely take those emails with a huge grain of salt.

I usually scan the email really quick. I can tell if one of my friends sent the email out of genuine concern or if they sent it just because they don't want the so-called "bad luck" that's written at the end.

I hate sending false information around, especially since some people really DO believe in it. I like to look it up on Snopes.com. They have archives of emails they have busted as myths.

Let's hope not too many people take it to heart, because then we'd have more cases of people never wanting to leave their homes (oh wait, your home can be dangerous too! aaaa!) lol.

Answer 4

Some people need a hobby, if you know what I mean, and I'm sure you do. Urban myths are MYTHS - if a guy is going to grab your ankles from under a car, get in on the passenger side (quickly) and run him over - then he won't do it again.

Answer 5

i usually just delete that crap before i read it. But what about that one time there IS a guy with a machete under your car.. do you want to take that chance and not look? as far as KFC, i dont know what they do, but it's damn good.

Answer 6

i never got any of those e-mails. but i have seen on videotape what KFC did to their chickens. maybe they don't anymore, but they screwed up by letting it happen in the first place, and i won't eat there anymore.

Answer 7

No I delete before I read them!

Answer 8

I hate those emails, and I hate the "If you don't forward this, you don't love Jesus" ones, as well.

Answer 9

i hv to agree with sunspot on this one! LOL! kinda funny though when u think about it.. LOL!

Answer 10

i dont remember ever getting those types of emails.