My Best Friend Sends Me Outrageous "Fw" Email's

I sent an email to my friend and said that I got a virus from one of her emails (I didn't really) so since I don't want to go thru that again, I'm asking ALL of my friends/family to not email me any joke/story/link etc. Worked wonderfully! Good luck!

Hi M.! I have a friend who sends out a hilarious annual e-mail telling people how much she HATES forwards and that she is to be taken off the list for mass forwards and will only accept personal mail.
It's worth a shot! I refuse to open forwards. I hate them and I think it's rude to clutter up someones inbox with pointless drivel.

Send her the Snopes connection each and every time until she gets the point. You can say "Wow, that sounds wonderful, but alas, you can see that it is a pipe dream" or whatever. Be nice, but keep hitting them back across the net to her.

Ugh, the worst.. I agree send her the snopes links.

During the last political season many of our relatives sent so many ridiculous rumors by email, I did not respond to them for a long time, then I realized they thought I agreed with that stuff. I started sending the snopes links and they slowed down, but did not totally stop. They were using our entire family email group list!.. It was awful, So finally I wrote a note to the entire family telling them that "we are a family, we all have different personalities, different lives and different beliefs. I respect everyone to have their own opinion but as a family we must make sure we represent ourselves as honest, educated compassionate people". I Highly encouraged them to "always search for the truth to outrageous emails and statements every time. Even if their Preachers, teachers, or neighbors, that they trust had passed on the information."

I also told them if they had an opinion, to please state, "this is just my opinion"... It has 95% stopped, but every once in a while, there is some back tracking when they have been proven incorrect..

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I also agree that sending her the snopes article will help curb it. I had to do that to my grandma about 20 times before she started checking things before sending them on. :-)

Be honest en tell her. The truth will set you free. If she es really your friend she won't have a problem at all.

Whenever it's a tear-jerker (missing teenager hoax, etc.) I always forward the snopes thing back to everyone my friend sent it to so that they won't be on the lookout for a non-existent missing teen. If my child went missing, I would want everyone to take my email pleas for help seriously, and sending fake ones around just encourage people not to read the real ones. If she continues to send you this sort of thing after you've sent her the snopes articles a couple of times, I would just mass-delete.

When it's other stuff, false cures for stupid illnesses or whatever, I usually ignore them. Occasionally, if I get things that I find offensive repeatedly, I send a very nice email to the sender saying that I love and respect them as a person and life wouldn't be interesting if everyone believed the same way about everything, but that I do not share her viewpoints on this issue, and so to please stop sending me emails of this type. I'm lucky that I have wonderful friends, and everyone has always respected my requests. Good luck.

Since she is your best friend I would send her the link to snopes on the next false email and tell her what a great reference snopes is for all the emails we all get. If she doesn't get it then just delete them. That's what I do since I have several friends that send that type of stuff on without checking it.

I automatically delete stuff that has been forwarded to me and a mass group of people and I make that known to my family and friends. My dad is notorious for stuff like this! He'll forward me 20 emails a day---"say 10 novenas", "pass this to 20 people", "read this sad story", blah blah blah. How annoying! Then when he asks if I got a certain email, I just say as nicely as possible..."Sorry dad I never open emails that are forwarded to me--you never know about computer viruses!" and then change the subject. I don't want to hurt his feelings and trust me that no amount of links from snopes is going to change my dad's mind about anything! It is not even worth the aggravation IMO---just delete them. Now my dad only sends about 2 emails a day because he knows I just trash them anyway. Also I went and opened up a new email account with gmail that I just use for work or school and I don't give it out to family or friends. That way I know if I just need to check the important stuff I can and not be bothered having to delete 50 emails first! Good luck.

As her friend, I think it is your obligation to keep her from making a fool of herself. I would want that from my best friend.

Just say, "Hey, head's up, some of the stuff you've been sending around just isn't true." and forward her the snopes link so she can read it for herself. Hopefully she'll be so embarrassed that she'll learn to check or stop herself when the urge to forward hits.

I hate this. My co-worker, who is on a really different side of the political spectrum always sends me offensive things and it's all opinion stuff, so there's no truth/ fiction factor. It's just offensive. She knows that I don't agree. I've tried rebutting point by point, but she finds that offensive. You'd think she'd quit.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGG. I feel for you. But if the stuff isn't offensive, do give her a head's up, otherwise people will be saying rude things about her behind her back, which is a lot worse than being corrected by your BF.

Hit delete and forget about it. Alot of people just send emails on because they think it has something interesting to say or share. If you'd rather her not clutter your inbox, ask her to only send those that are very important because you are having a hard time getting through all the junk mail.

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If you can tell the message is forwarded, delete, delete, delete! I have a cousin that I love dearly with WAY too much time on her hands, I think she lives at the computer! So I can usually tell when the message is personal.

Blessings....

I would ask her to stop forwarding you emails. You can tell her you are worried about viruses if you don't want to hurt her feelings. If she is you BFF she will stop.

I personally don't open FW messages due to virus potential.

I have let my friends and family know that if they FW to me, it is auto deleted....no offense.

Say something like...."I appreciate your concern but due to a recent virus, I no longer open anything that is FW to me...I hope you understand." Why should she get insulted??? You could be saving her from getting a virus...

I did tell 3 of my "friends" to stop emailing me stupid chain letters, some understood and some stopped talking to me. Whatever, I considered it harrassment if I have to be bothered with daily garbage. Even seeing it caused me an angry reaction, so I would gage it by your reaction, if it's starting to really bother you you can falt out tell her to stop including you on those daily things because you don't care to receive them or you can block her from getting any emails from her and maybe she'll get the point.

Thanks

Well I would definitely email her the snopes link if you find something false and maybe it will encourage her to do a little more research before forwarding all this nonsense to people. If you aren't comfortable with that just delete it. She doesn't need to know. It just depends on how close you are, her personality type (does she get her feelings hurt easily, etc). Use your judgement.

Tell her about snopes. She might be embarrassed to
find out that her forwards are false. I would want my
friend to do the same. Good luck

I always let people know when I find things on snopes that aren't true only because a lot of that internet urban legend junk really upsets people and pulls on peoples heart strings. I always due it really tactfully like making it seem that I wanted to help them out so that they don't feel bad about sending it but it does help with not getting ridiculous emails and can even help so that someone who is compassionate doesn't send a con artist money etc. So I say yes tell her:)

Of course! My mom does the same thing, and after years of calling her out on it, she's finally sending "disclaimers" with the junk she sends!

When I receive emails like that, I email them back the snopes link.

A good way to go about it would be to say something like "ya know, I looked up some of the things you emailed me about & this is what I found out about it..." then proceed to tell her what you found. As far as a good way to ask her to stop, just simply say "I really appreciate the fwds you send to me but since I've found a lot of them to be false or misleading it probably would save you trouble if you would not email those particular types of emails". If you feel uncomfortable asking her not to send anymore, just delete them. If she's a mature grown up then she should appreciate you letting her know but some have difficulty receiving any type of rejection no matter how minor it is. I've had two ppl, an associate that I considered a friend & the other was my sister-in-law of all ppl, they got so p.o'd at me for asking them to stop sending email fwds as a text although I did it in a mature, poilite, grown-up way it took a long time before they would speak to me again. so be sure to try to be diplomatic about it. Hope this helps & good luck!!

My mother does it as well. She will check it out on snopes and then send forwarding e-mails to everyone saying that its incorrect. People need to know when things are incorrect.

That drives me nuts too! I have a few friends and family members that send Fwds without checking if they are real.

This is what I do, I check it on Snopes.com, then I reply (to just the sender) with the link and say hey FYI this is not true see snopes.com.

If it is something like a missing child hoax (and there are a ton out there) I do reply to all and say hey this is a hoax see what Snopes.com has to say and I paste the link.

I have a friend that kept sending me political rhetoric that really got me going. I asked her to stop, telling her that I just delete them now without reading them. Now - she only sends me ones she feels are really important. Turns out it was her way of stimulating conversation with me! At least now we can have a real discussion instead of an argument.

I'd just send her the link. She can read it and determine the fact that it is false on her own.

Email her back and tell her!!!! Please!!!