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This is incredible! Did you hear about poisonous West African Attic Monkeys? It’s so scary! NBC had some investigative report the other night. Turns out some shipping company wasn’t paying attention or something, and attic monkeys got shipped over here. They’re mostly harmless in their own environment, but over here domesticated animals are being ATTACKED BY THE 1000′S in the middle of the night by these monkeys who HAV E NO KNOWN PREDATORES. Call your congressman, alert your friends, hide the dogs and cats. Send this to absolutely everyone in your email list RIGHT NOW or you’ll have bad luk!!!

Wait a minute.

Before you do, think about it. Is it true? Is there such a thing as “attic monkeys?” Are they dangerous? Where is “over here?” Is that where you or your friends live? Will anyone care?

Okay, so you figure out that there are “attic monkeys” and they are threatening the countryside at this moment, and you still want to forward this to all your friends. Does it look anything like this?

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>>>This is incredible! Did
>>>you hear about poisonous West African
>>>Attic
>>>Monkeys? It's so incredible! NBC
>>>had
>>>some investigative report the other night.
>>>...
>>>
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Is that email you’re going to send full of email headers from prior forwards, basically listing other people’s address books?

Absolutely Inbox will help you with email etiquette and help you figure out if what you’re emailing is a hoax or misleading or just long outdated.

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