Is that email story true??

Don't believe every cybermyth, urban legend, hoax or virus "alert" sent to you. Ever wondered if anyone makes the money promised in those work-at-home advertisements? If that virus-scare they say was covered on major news channels is true?? Or if each forwarded e-mail will really mean a donation of 10 cents from Microsoft to an orphan's organ-transplant operation? The answer is almost always NO!!. Most of these “stories” are hoaxes, urban legends, e-mail rumors, scams or in some cases pure financial fiction.

Don’t be part of the problem “by spreading untrue information”. Investigage and check them out - before you send this type of information to family and friends take a few minutes to validate the information, just visit one of the following websites:

http://www.breakthechain.org/
http://www.snopes.com/
http://www.truthorfiction.com/
http://www.urbanlegends.about.com/

for a verbal reminder of this information, check out this link...
http://info.org.il/irrelevant/may02-smilepop-soapbox4.swf

How to find a tele number, address or someone

When you are looking for a telephone number or address for someone or a company, these websites can help and they are free – my favorite is “anywho.com”

• www.anywho.com
• www.switchboard.com
• www.whitepages.com
• www.yellowpages.com

Have a telephone number and not sure who it belongs to, many of the services above offer "reverse lookup" so type in the telephone number and it will tell you who it belongs to (or if it is cell phone number it doesn' list the person... or go to google or bing an type in the telephone number...

• www.google.com
• www.bing.com

When you need more infomation about someone (background check, personal, financial, criminal, marital status etc) to check a new employee, tenant whatever, there are investigative services that you can pay for the information..

• • www.Intelius.com
• • www.ussearch.com
• • www.PeopleFinders.com
• • www.HireRight.com
• • www.sentrylink.com

BE CAREFUL NOT TO GET RIPPED OFF. Some sites, such as consumer-warning.org and others look official and non-biased but are actually advertising sites for companies such as “net.detective.com” – if they only list one recommendation, you know it’s an advertisement.. Do your homework - check out your local Better Business Bureau before paying anyone.....

Want to learn more about “how to investigate” someone – maybe a new employee or tenant or finding a lost relative or friend, then check out..

• www.howtoinvestigate.com