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Here's my advice: always check Snopes before forwarding anything.
I wish there was a checkbox in email sites and clients "check incoming messages against known urban myths". Probably no harder to implement than the current automatic scam and spam filtering.
Do people actually still get those things? I have literally never recieved one of those chain letters or story-forwardings.
Then there would a next level in arms race. Just like spammers used to add "this is not a spam" disclaimers, people who create hoax mails would add something like: "When you send this e-mail to your friends, ask them later whether they received it, because <INSERT CONSPIRACY> is removing criticism against them from internet."
Or the hoaxes would be sent as attached images.
There is hardly any with spam anymore. Gmail detects virtually 100% of it these days. Maybe a few spam messages a year make it through to my Inbox.