I've said this before, but it's a good opportunity to remind it: ANY mail with ANY story, that ends up asking you to send copies to ANYbody, is surely a hoax.

The purpose is not only to jam some people's address with garbage. In general people resend the mail without cleaning up the list of addresses of previous recipients, and this list may grow to dozens, multiplied by the hundreds or thousands of threads. These authentic e-mail addresses reach some points in the net where the SPAMMERS have planted SPY programs. These spies then report those lists to their headquarters, as soon as the host user connects to the net. Some seconds of unexplained delay, and voilá! - another list of true e-mails caught. Months later you receive an offer of 100,000 e-mails "verified true" for 100 bucks or so. Surely you are included in that list.

See the very interesting anti-spy programs from Gibson Research Corp at https://grc.com , which some Mudcatter recommended (I got rid of a spy program with their OptOut anti-spy)

Un abrazo - Andrés