“Debunking email hoaxes and exposing Internet scams since 2003!” That is a quote on a website I find very educational. Perhaps you will also. It is http://www.hoax-slayer.com/virus-hoaxes.html. One of the annoying type of emails I get is the one that smells a lot like a hoax email and sure enough when I check it out, it is a hoax. Some emails seem to me to be obviously a hoax but I’ve been messing around on the Internet since 1988 so I’ve learned a lot from falling for a few hoaxes myself. Consequently, I promise to me more gentle in the future when responding to a hoax email that someone forwards to me. Read here is how hoax-slayer suggests responding: http://www.hoax-slayer.com/responding-hoax-emails.shtml