Top 5 Email Hoaxes of All Time

Get free laptop from Sony for forwarding this email to 20 people. Earn $250 by forwarding this email to 20 people because Microsoft will send you a check to your banking account. Hey get the blessing, get a promotion and win 20 billion in lottery by forwarding this email. Are you kidding me? Do you believe all this crap? Absolute nonsense. In fact, I see this as an extreme insult of human intelligence, both who started it and those who are propagating it… Do you really think people are so foolish? (Update: Apparently yes! Because every now and then I get forwarded email with exactly one of these 5 email hoaxes)

This post has top 5 email hoaxes of all times. Read them and let me know what I missed.

The Top 5 Hoaxes -

1. Get the Blessing by Forwarding an Email – I am sure you have received at least three email in your life time about “send the email or bad things will happen to you.” Sorry folks! That just doesn’t digest. If God was distributing the blessing to those forwarding emails, I guess rich people would be sitting on email 24x7.  Sorry doesn’t work.
2. Sick Kid Needs Your Help – This is one of those emails that claims there is a sick child and every time you forward the email some charity is going to donate 5 cents or 10 cents to the kid. Hello?? There needs to be a email tracking mechanism that can track ALL emails forwarded by everyone on the list. Unfortunately, that doesn’t exist.
3. Bill Gates Giving Away Money – Amazingly foolish. Wonder how people can even believe something like this? Why would Bill Gates send random people money to those people who are forwarding emails? Sorry if you know even how to spell marketing, you would know that this is a pathetically poor business plan. Learn more about this email hoax.
4. Free Laptop from Fujitsu – Similar to the above hoax, this one says you need to forward email and win a laptop from Fujitsu or some company. What the heck?
5. Nigerian Uncle sending You money – Ever got an email from your Nigerian Uncle (or British, American, Bulgarian… any uncle for that matter) who left you a property of $ 200 million and you didn’t know about? They would ask you your bank account number for transferring $ 100 million and you can keep a commission of $20 million. Well, I know they teach us not to talk to strangers but they don’t teach us not to give your bank account to strangers. This hoax probably is based on the fact that since they don’t teach people to not to give bank account to strangers, people will.

The next time you get an email from, send them the letter from a frustrated victim of chain letters, and educate them by sending them information – either send them information available online or simply attach the link to this post.