True or Hoax? Adding fake e-mail addy to protect against viruses, etc.,

Hi! I received a forwarded e-mail, but don't believe everything that I receive. I would like your opinion as to whether or not this would work.

Quoted from forwarded e-mail.............

"First, open your address book and click on add address, and it will bring up "new contact," just as you would do if you were adding a new friend to your list of email addresses. In the window where you would type your friend's first name, type in "A". For the screen name or email address, type
AAAAAAA@AAA.AAA.

Now, here's what you've done and why it works: The "name" "A" will be placed at the top of your address book as entry#1. This will be where the worm will start in an effort to send itself to all your friends. But, when it tries to send itself to AAAAAAA@AAA.AAA, it will be undeliverable because of the phony email address you entered. If the first attempt fails (which it will because of the phony address), the worm goes no further and your friends will not be infected.

Here's the second great advantage of this method: If an email cannot be delivered, you will be notified of this in your In Box almost immediately. Hence, if you ever get an email telling you that an email addressed to AAAAAAA@AAA.AAAA could not be delivered, you know right away that you have the worm virus in your system. You can then take steps to get rid of it!"

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Would this work?

 

The e-mail forward was sent "from a friend, of a friend, of a friend" type thing. I actually don't have very many contacts in my own address book, but I do receive on occasion, a forward that has "been around". I've been lucky, spam for me has been rare, and I haven't found any viruses on this computer... as of yet.

Thank you for your help and suggestions to avoid spam!

 

E-mail has been deleted and ignored.

 

Thanks, think I will do just that!