You know all those messages you get like "Send it back to me", "Who knows, it could be true" and "Its for real", well, take a look at some of the web site below. Why? Because they belong in the long line of hoaxes and urban legends. Some are good reading, but not worth forwarding to everybody in your address book. Its got to the point that if you (or someone that knows someone that heard about it from someone else) have read it on the Internet, it must be true!!
Don't forward all this stuff. Consider this. You mail it to ten people, someone else is mailing it to ten more people and so on and so on, you're clogging up the mail servers more than spam messages. What if one day you log on and can't get your e-mail. It's down because of the forwarded messages and spam have clogged it up so bad it can't run anymore. Well, not really, but think about what it costs your ISP to have to deal with junk e-mail. So, read some of the sites below and when you get something that sounds too good to be true, press the Delete key and don't forward it, if you want to forward something, look for some of the hoax sites and forward that on to the gullable person that sent it to you.
BTW: Bill Gates, Walt Disney (who's dead by the way) and Intel, AOL and the American Cancer Society are not going to be at Outback Steak House giving away coupons for a free Big Mac.
Vmyths.com- Truth About Computer Virus Myths & Hoaxes
CDC Health-Related Hoaxes & Rumors