Check it out before passing it on

Several times in the past I have written on this topic. This is a phenomenon that comes in waves and a wave seems to be washing over things lately. It makes people worry, fret, and warn others....they are online stories, scams and jokes.

As soon as you repost any of these crazy stories, you have been punked! You would have been a star of Candid Camera. Maybe it is worse, maybe you actually mailed a check to a foreign country , or handed over your PIN number to a stranger on the phone. Did you give your account number to a "Western Union" official"  who never actually worked for Western Union or anyone else for that matter?

My mailbox has been chock full (the "junk" mailbox thank goodness), of scam mail over the weekend. People phishing for information hoping that there is at least one idiot in the millions that will fall for their story. The sad part is, many do. They either see a get rich quick opportunity, or think they are helping some poor helpless person somewhere in the world. Then it spread like wildfire to Facebook. People many times have good intentions...but we all know what the road to Hell is paved with.

The less serious jokesters just get a chuckle seeing how many people will spread their nonsense how many times. Some "WARNING" email are about 3-4 years old, yet they keep getting passed around like they happened yesterday. We have been told lunacy after lunacy, and some change their lives to live by it.

God/Creator/the Universe gave us all intuition. I have been blessed with a little bit bigger antenna than the average person, it helps me, and others and it puts a roof over my head. I don't leave it "turned on " all the time because frankly I don't care what you think about your boss, or what you plan to do this weekend. Yet, it still serves as a warning system. It works well in that capacity, and each time I see an email or social network posting of one of these scams or jokes, a little alarm goes off. It should for you too! It should because you should all be well aware by now of the Nigerian money scams, and all the other nonsense that lands in your email box.

Murderers and rapists are not using crying babies to get your attention...after all it would get a lot of people's attention and we don't need witnesses. They don't tape pieces of paper to your windshield. There is not a human alive that can in any way possible, shoot themselves with a nail gun (it has several safety features AND has to have the ability NOT to shoot yourself or others, or they would have to register them as weapons). Onions will not kill you if you eat them. You don't have to pay taxes up front to collect your inheritance. Missing children will be put out on an amber alert, not on Facebook. My "weather radio" goes off every time there is an amber or silver alert, not social networking sites.

Now, to make it easier....never give anyone your PIN number to anything. Shred any old bills, or paperwork with information like your SSN#, and credit card applications that come in the mail. Something seem wrong? Call the police. Check out any organization before sending money.

Actually watch and read the news, this way you will know that Facebook is not going to charge you, and when there are crafty criminals or scams in your area, the police will have the news media send the details out so you are warned. 

You have all this nonsense streaming to you through the web, so why not use it to combat it? This is NEGATIVE energy. Even when you respond positively, like praying, you are responding to NEGATIVE stimuli. The Universe will happily send you negative things to have to pray about if that is the message that you send to it (which IS the message you send when you respond to this nonsense...and part of why bad things happen to good people). So , what is a person to do? Simple. If you feel the need to pass it along, CHECK IT OUT FIRST!!!! There are several sites dedicated to weeding out the untrue email, the scams, the BS stories, and fakery, that is all over the net. They include, but are not limited to:  Snopes.com, urbanlegendsonline.com, and truthorfiction.com. When you cannot locate the story on any of these, that does NOT make it true. These sites will tell you if something is true! When it isn't there, it has not been investigated yet, Snopes will be happy to investigate for you! They will also send you a daily email of the newest BS circulating on the web.

NEVER, ever, pass anything along until YOU REALLY research it first, and I just gave you three tools to use, there is no excuse to pass along any of this crap. It is PURE negativity . Anything that is made to upset or scare anyone is negativity that does not need to be spread. Be a POSITIVE part of the Universe. Don't spread ANYTHING around until you check it out....and that includes non-web "rumors" about people you know!

Spread the positive, the true and the valuable, not the untrue, dramatic, and harmful.
Perpetuate POSITIVE , energy, not false, negative and harmful energy!


Peshaui Weuqashimese





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