How to check it’s real

We’ve all seen it before, those emails that come through describing impending doom, the impossible jump or some-or-other virus that we need to tell everyone in our contact list about. How do you know what’s true and what’s nonsense? The easiest way is to navigate your way to Snopes which is a dedicated site in exposing these types of scams. Simple cut and paste the first few lines of the email into the Snope’s search tool and if it is a scam, Snopes will give you all the details of where it originated and how it spread.

Sometimes the history of these emails is actually quite interesting.