The e-mail below was sent to a large number of people, indicating that the DOE was going to send you a refund on your energy bill. Well, guess what, it is not going to happen. The link takes you...
This one purports to be a video of a real machine created at the University of Iowa from farm equipment. It is actually a pirated piece of the very cool Pipe Dream animation from the Anamusic DVD.
In this message, the writer complains that the World War II memorial foundation has edited Roosevelt's words when they placed them on the monument. In fact, they just used a different sentence from...
This is another variant of the Foreign Lottery Scam that claims it is funded by Microsoft. Of interest here are the follow-up letters between the scammer and the person who was being scammed. Her...
This one is partly true, the phone number and website are links to the national Do Not Call list for any telephone number, not just cell phones. The rest is wrong.
"HAD TO TRY IT!! WHO KNOWS??" I have some shoice words that are not printable to the person who makes these kind of comments to an obvious hoax. This is just your standard send it for good luck; do...
Helium causes death??? Come on; get real. Helium is an inert gas (if you don't know what inert means, look it up). It is not a poison and it cannot hurt you by breathing it. Divers use a mixture of...
This rumor started with a real investigation but the key card information got spread around out of context. The following letter from the Adjutant to the Chief of Police of the Pasadena Police De...
There are a lot of lottery scams floating around the net that are similar to the one below. They all claim that you have won a lottery that you did not enter and that you are going to receive a lo...
I guess someone got tired of the "little Girl Dying" hoax and recreated it with the mother dying. As with all the others, no charity is going to give you 10 cents for forwarding an e-mail.
This is so sad... but it never happened. Someone with a sick imagination made this up to get you to send on the chain.
I guess I should have expected it. There is some sick person out there who seems to think that faking pictures of the shuttle explosion is fun. These pictures were most likely swiped out of a rece...
This photo was actually taken by Michael Clancy, a photojournalist. You can read his description of the picture at his website.
This is a standard chain with a threat. Send it out or you die. I think Amy's Ghost needs to be buried so send it to the trash.
The Don't Drink Coke Warning has grown over the last few months. Now it is Pepsi you are supposed to stay away from. The writer knows it is true because her mother's, repairman's, girlfriend pass...
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