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Verify those emails before you forward them!
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Have you ever forwarded an email to all your friends in your address book about some really cool thing, only to be buried in emails over the next few days by messages from your "friends" telling you that you are a dope, and that what you sent is not true?  Well, they probably checked it out on SNOPES.com!  You can use Snopes to verify those emails, before passing them on.  

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SNOPES  home page
...a good place to start.
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Marco Men's Club
Marco Sportfishing Club
Marco Island Civil Air Patrol
MadDog Enterprises

Honorable mention:  Here are some other fact-checking sites
TruthOrFiction.com
FactCheck.org

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