I got my mother in law to stop sending e-mails like that by telling her that they were really ID theft attempts. When you can't reason with them, fsck with them.
As a side note, my firm has a two paragraph disclaimer about legal privilege, federal laws, etc. due to the work we do. For a while I had 'Forward this disclaimer to 12 people in the next 4 seconds or you will have horribly explosive diarrhea for a year' in the monstrosity that had to follow every e-mail. Granted, the only people I e-mailed were my co-workers and occasionally a contact at a title insurance company that plotted with me to do this. No one ever mentioned it, but my boss caught it when re-evaluating the statement and made me change it. 🙁
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