These are two sources to verfy if the numerous warnings circulating in emails are hoaxes or not:
Snopes.com
Hoax Slayer
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Every week there are prominent stories in the media relating to internet safety.
I was horrified to read about the ‘Craigslist Murder’; a young woman went to a babysitting interview and never returned in the USA.
Users need to be aware and cautious. Don’t reveal too much about yourself on social networking sites. Don’t give […]

I was saddened today to have been spammed in Facebook.
I thought it was purer than that.
A very scantily clad lady invited me to be her friend. I declined.
The reason I like Facebook so much much more than MySpace is that you usually don’t get spammed with random requests from unknowns. […]

I signed up to the phone, mail and fax registers to stop being bombarded with unsolicited communication; aka junk mail/calls*. I am particularly careful to opt out of any direct mail, and have informed my bank, theatres etc that I do not want to receive carefully selected offers from them or their partners. […]

The Department for Transport has published their guidelines for air travel post the terror alerts in London. There’s much debate about how long these restrictions will be in place. I don’t think we will ever be able to take our notebook computers onto the plane with us again. [update: ok, i am wrong, just received […]