Email Hoaxes

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I'm sure we've all seen them, you know the ones - This happened to a friend of mine and I wanted to pass it on - such and such happened and it was lucky she did whatever - I wanted to share this with you so it wouldn't happen to you. Then, like chain mail, they get passed around, sometimes with slightly different variations but all much the same. What do you do when you get them? Do you pass them on, do you ever try and verify whether it's true or not, and if not mention to the person it came from that it's just a hoax (in the hopes they'll stop sending them) or do you just delete them. And where do they come from anyway? does someone sit at their computer and come up with a fictional story and just start sending, or maybe they hit the urban legend sites and combine a few different stories :-) I often wonder if the person who sent the first one in the line ever wonders just how far it goes.