Chatty, I have a friend who checks these out for me on Snopes.com, but sometimes I do it myself. Most emails like that come up a hoax. some people apparently have nothing better to do than sit there thinking up this stuff. Since my husband has been a banker for 46 years, I doubted the one
about the ATM thing. I'm sure he would have known that one. Imagine someone sitting there thinking, "Well how about I tell people to put their ATM code in backwards if they are ever held at gunpoint at a machine?" Or, "Wonder if they'll believe their lipstick will give them cancer?" I had two of those lipstick brands and tried what it said. They did not turn black. However, a third one did. Turns out that is what happens anyway in most cases. It's from the metal. It was hard to get all the lipstick smears off my hand too.

Louisa