As a journalist and teacher, I read e-mail pleas with a wary eye, asking questions and doing some research. Sometimes that means an e-mail to a government agency or visiting Web sites like www.hoax-slayer.com. Sometimes I go to the “source.”
E-mail hoaxes abound, beware
Thursday, April 30, 2009 | 6:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 10:33 p.m. CDT, Sunday, May 3, 2009
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