Phantom Reborn

Can't really recall when these mails are bugging me.

Whenever I sneak into my e-mail accounts, a lot of familiar mails keep popping out after I clicked on them.

Amongst the common ones are something like:

"Bill Gates is going to present you with $ after you forward this mail to 8 friends of yours..."
Holy crap, the mail circulation becomes so wild that my friends really believed in it and start forwarding this piece of junk around to their acquaintances, as if Mr. Gates is really developing some kind of new Microsoft systems by giving away cash prizes, and this system seems to be taking thousand of years for completion.

Well, the one which is mentioned above is somewhat exaggerating. But there are also some pieces of mails which made me almost believe in them with all my heart.

For instance, "Vitamin C cannot be consumed together with seafood, especially shrimps for they could cause the emergence of high dosage of arsenic"... Man, I almost get caught up on this one! Food poisoning by a product which is formed with the combination of vitamin C and shrimps, that seems to be too scientific to be false.

But my friend, that one is a fallacious one as well. No scientific evidence proves that to be true.

I am always beating myself up mentally regarding these matters, and to be frank, in fact I am kind of cynical in a way... Or should I say contain the slightest sense by feeling disgusted toward people who thought that almost every forwarded mail is rightful without proper and further thinking...

But thank God, recently I came across a website which is owned by a couple who do take these matters into deep concerns by investigating every single forwarded truth (or hoax) in this sophisticated society of web.

Check out the validity of every seemingly false mail which tempted you to believe in at Snopes.com.