Earlier this week I saw that The Stupid Cancer Blog had a post regarding an email hoax that has been floating around people's inboxes. This email, which is attributed to Johns Hopkins Hospital, has been getting passed around since at least March 2007 (according to the Johns Hopkins website), but we feel that this is still important enough to bring to your attention.
What’s in the email? This email describes properties of cancer cells and how to prevent cancer, which can be misleading to the cancer community since there are currently no known preventative measures. As explained on the Johns Hopkins Hospital site, this email is a hoax and was not sent by Johns Hopkins.
If you ever get a suspicious email, or one that has information that sounds just too good to be true, delete it. If the email appears to come from a reputable group like Johns Hopkins or us, then contact that organization so they can take appropriate action.
Have any of you received this email? If so, what did you do?
