Is That Email Message A Hoax?

Have you received strange email messages from Bill Gates, the American Red Cross, or some other organization asking you to fight some cause (like a little by dying of cancer) by forwarding that email to all your friends and family. As you probably already know these message are not real, and they're a hoax (watch this video).

Sometimes its not always easy to distinguish, the real messages from the fake one. To find out if a message could be a hoax, you can check it against one of the sites below to see if it has been floating around the Internet for a little while:

• Snopes.com
• Scambusters.org
• FactCheck.org (Political Content)
• BreakTheChain.org (Chain Letters)