I have been getting those kind of e-mails for as long as I have had a hotmail account, usually from a friend, thinking it was true of course. I have never forwarded any of the e-mails and I still have my accounts, both of them. I mainly use just for storage, and other important info I want to keep in case I have a computer crash. I hate the kind of forward that tell you if you don't forward this certain e-mail within a certain length of time you will have bad luck, or the kind where it tells you that if you mail it to so many people you will receive a lot of money in so long a time, yeah I hate all these hoaxes, and the terrible thing is they use the name of small children in these hoaxes saying that if you don't send it then money will not be contributed on behalf of the sick child. There is a place that has some info about wheather it is truth or fiction, I think the website is
http://www.truthorfiction.com/