Advice from snopes

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1) Emails that say "forward this to 10 of your friends", "sign this petition", or "you'll get bad luck" or "you'll get good luck" or "you'll see something funny on your screen after you send it" --- are almost always ploys designed to identify the email addresses you send to for SPAM purposes.  Even when you get emails that demand you send the email only if you're not ashamed of Jesus --- that is email tracking, and they are playing on our conscience.  "Missing child", "Dying child" -- these are email tracking schemes.  Ignore them and don't participate!

2) Email petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress, Social security, or other government organizations.  To be acceptable, petitions must be ink on paper with the full address of the person signing the petition, so this is a waste of time and you are just helping the email trackers.