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Articles recently published or updated on hoax-slayer.com. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/latest-information.html Copyright 2009 Brett M.Christensen en hoax-slayer@hoax-slayer.com(Brett Christensen) Message claims that a seriously ill baby girl will receive a donation from the phone company to help pay for a heart transplant every time the message is forwarded. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/baby-girl-heart-transplant-hoax.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/baby-girl-heart-transplant-hoax.shtml Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:58:00 GMT Email claims that the recipient has won the UK National Welfare Christmas Lottery and should contact a specified agent in order to claim a large cash prize. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/uk-national-welfare-lottery-scam.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/uk-national-welfare-lottery-scam.shtml Sun, 27 Dec 2009 05:10:00 GMT Message warns that an email attachment named "Black in the White House" contains a damaging computer virus that can destroy the hard drive of the infected computer. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/black-in-white-house-virus-hoax.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/black-in-white-house-virus-hoax.shtml Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:48:00 GMT Email claims that a series of attached images depict new US dollar notes, including a $200 bill, that are to be released by the US government in 2010. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/new-us-dollar-designs.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/new-us-dollar-designs.shtml Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:47:00 GMT Message warns recipients not to accept a friend request from Christopher Davies or Jessica Davies because they are hackers who can gain access to your computer and the computers of your friends as well. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/christopher-davies-hacker-hoax.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/christopher-davies-hacker-hoax.shtml Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:35:00 GMT Protest message, supposedly supported by photographs of child brides, claims that 450 girls under ten were forced to marry adult men in a mass Muslim marriage recently held in Gaza. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/mass-muslim-marriage.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/mass-muslim-marriage.shtml Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:46:00 GMT Circulating video supposedly shows a bungee jumper having his head bitten off by a crocodile as he reaches the water. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/bungee-jumper-crocodile.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/bungee-jumper-crocodile.shtml Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:43:00 GMT Email purporting to be from Hotmail Customer Care claims that the recipient must confirm his or her Hotmail account by replying with account login details within 48 hours or risk having the account closed down. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/windows-live-hotmail-phishing-scam.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/windows-live-hotmail-phishing-scam.shtml Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:23:00 GMT Message warns drivers that roadside criminals are throwing eggs at the windshields of passing cars in the hope that the drivers will be forced to pull over due to obscured vision and therefore become vulnerable to robbery. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/egg-windshield-robbery.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/egg-windshield-robbery.shtml Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:28:00 GMT Email claims that the user's email account has exceeded its storage limit and instructs him or her to reply with the account username and password in order to increase the mailbox size and restore full functionality. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/email-exceeded-storage-limit-scam.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/email-exceeded-storage-limit-scam.shtml Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:54:00 GMT Message claims that attached images show an amazing new mobile computing device developed by Google that combines a touch screen, a camera, a scanner, WiFi, and Google Maps to give unprecedented access to information while on the move. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/google-amazing-device.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/google-amazing-device.shtml Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:42:00 GMT Circulating warnings suggest that a 2009 Westfield Shopping Australia Christmas gift card competition currently running on Facebook is a scam and contains trojans or viruses. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/westfield-giftcard-comp-facebook.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/westfield-giftcard-comp-facebook.shtml Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:29:00 GMT Email forward asks recipients to pray for 8 year old South African boy, Christopher Beets, who was seriously ill with cancer. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/christopher-beets-prayer-request.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/christopher-beets-prayer-request.shtml Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:48:00 GMT Email purporting to be from Social Security Administration claims that the recipient's Social Security statement may contain errors and urges him or her to click a link to review the statement. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/social-security-errors-phishing-scam.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/social-security-errors-phishing-scam.shtml Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:21:00 GMT Message claims that Facebook is becoming overpopulated and that members who do not send the information to others within two weeks will have their accounts deleted. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/facebook-overpopulated-hoax.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/facebook-overpopulated-hoax.shtml Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:35:00 GMT Message circulating via email and the Internet claims that recipients can print out an attached coupon to receive a free burger from gourmet burger chain, Red Robin. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/fake-red-robin-coupon.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/fake-red-robin-coupon.shtml Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:22:00 GMT Email claims that an attached photograph shows a flower in Mexico that is the largest in the world and only blooms once every forty years for four days. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/forty-year-mexican-flower-bloom.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/forty-year-mexican-flower-bloom.shtml Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:46:00 GMT Message warns that users will have to pay for MSN and email accounts unless they send the warning to at least 18 contacts. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/msn-18-contacts.html http://www.hoax-slayer.com/msn-18-contacts.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:33:00 GMT Email claims that the recipient's ANZ Customer Registration Number and password have been revoked due to "severe numbers" of login attempts. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/anz-invalid-login-phishing-scam.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/anz-invalid-login-phishing-scam.shtml Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:49:00 GMT Message claims that members of the public can go to the "LetsSayThanks" website and choose a thank-you card that will be sent to US soldiers serving overseas. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/xerox-say-thanks.html http://www.hoax-slayer.com/xerox-say-thanks.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:43:00 GMT Email claims that attached photographs show several spectacular striped icebergs found in the Antarctic area. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/striped-icebergs.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/striped-icebergs.shtml Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:18:00 GMT Email forward claims that a series of attached photographs show a very colourful and spectacular display created by many varieties of algae and moss growing on an isolated river at a certain time of year. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/most-colourful-river.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/most-colourful-river.shtml Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:59:00 GMT Email purporting to be from technical support claims that the recipient's mailbox has been deactivated and he or she must run an attached utility in order to restore email service. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/mailbox-deactivated-trojan.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/mailbox-deactivated-trojan.shtml Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:02:00 GMT Protest message claims that US President Obama has established a program in which welfare recipients are eligible to receive a free cell phone and a free monthly phone allowance. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/ http://www.hoax-slayer.com/ Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:03:00 GMT Email claims that an attached photograph depicts a very rare atmospheric phenomenon called a "fire rainbow". http://www.hoax-slayer.com/fire-rainbow.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/fire-rainbow.shtml Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:18:00 GMT beautiful photograph of desert wildflowers is circulating via email and online. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/god-spilled-paint.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/god-spilled-paint.shtml Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:18:00 GMT Email claims that the recipient has been awarded 2 million dollars as part of a donation pledge given by Hyundai Chairman Chung Mong-koo as a condition of his conviction for embezzlement. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/hyundai-donation-advance-fee-scam.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/hyundai-donation-advance-fee-scam.shtml Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:54:00 GMT Message requests Christmas cards for 5 year Noah Biorkman who is battling Neuroblastoma cancer. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/noah-biorkman-card-request.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/noah-biorkman-card-request.shtml Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:17:00 GMT Message claims that attached photographs show coal train cars and a wooden train bridge burning after the train was stopped on the bridge due to a melted wheel bearing. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/burning-train-bridge.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/burning-train-bridge.shtml Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:12:00 GMT Emailed photographs claim to depict large areas of volcanic stones floating on the ocean as well as the birth of a new volcanic island. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/new-pacific-island.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/new-pacific-island.shtml Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:24:00 GMT Email forward describes the Uno, an innovative electric motorcycle invented by Canadian Ben Gulak that moves on two wheels positioned side by side and is controlled by body movement. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/ben-gulak-uno.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/ben-gulak-uno.shtml Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:03:00 GMT Revamped version of the Microsoft email beta test hoax includes "testimonies" and a bank account screenshot of supposed money received. The message claims that Microsoft will send money to anybody who forwards it to others. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/microsoft-beta-test-hoax.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/microsoft-beta-test-hoax.shtml Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:27:00 GMT Email forward includes a photograph apparently showing a massive bunch of bananas hanging from a very tall banana tree. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/huge-banana-bunch.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/huge-banana-bunch.shtml Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:45:00 GMT Email claims that an unusual and beautiful shell-shaped house depicted in a series of attached photographs is the home of Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and is located in Bandra, a suburb of Mumbai, India. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/sachin-tendulkar-shell-house.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/sachin-tendulkar-shell-house.shtml Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:49:00 GMT Message outlines three seemingly strange procedures in Microsoft Windows operating systems and claims that not even Microsoft knows why these procedures work as they do. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/microsoft-magic.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/microsoft-magic.shtml Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:07:00 GMT Message claims that Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin took communion on the Moon using a special communion kit given to him by his church. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/communion-on-the-moon.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/communion-on-the-moon.shtml Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:43:00 GMT Email forward claims that an attached video shows an incredible music machine made from farm equipment at the University of Iowa. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/incredible-music-machine.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/incredible-music-machine.shtml Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:24:00 GMT Email, purporting to be from a parcel delivery service claims that a package could not be delivered due to a shipping address error and instructs the recipient to open an attachment to print out a shipping label. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/shipping-address-error-trojan.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/shipping-address-error-trojan.shtml Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:44:00 GMT Email, purporting to be from Facebook, claims that the user's Facebook password has been changed and informs him or her that the new password can be found in an attached document. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/facebook-password-change-trojan.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/facebook-password-change-trojan.shtml Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:40:00 GMT Email, purporting to be from PayPal, claims that the recipient's primary email address has changed and urges him or her to click a link in the message if the address change was unauthorised. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/paypal-address-change-scam.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/paypal-address-change-scam.shtml Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:44:00 GMT Message claims that Canadian coffee and doughnut chain, Tim Hortons, adds nicotine to its coffee and that patrons have suffered serious health problems as a result. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/nicotine-tim-hortons-coffee.html http://www.hoax-slayer.com/nicotine-tim-hortons-coffee.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:04:00 GMT Protest message calls on Australian consumers to avoid buying products that include the Halal Certification Authority Logo because the fees food companies pay for the use of the logo go to a religion that is "actively trying to destroy the Australian way of life" and possibly even supporting terrorism. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/halal-certification-cadbury-protest-email.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/halal-certification-cadbury-protest-email.shtml Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:16:00 GMT Virus protection "tip" claims that you can counter email worms simply by placing a phony email address such "AAAAAAA@AAA.AAA" as as the first entry in your address book. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/virus-control-hoax.html http://www.hoax-slayer.com/virus-control-hoax.html Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:08:00 GMT Protest email tells the story of how a Muslim woman in a supermarket checkout line was firmly put in her place after she made critical remarks about the cashier's Australian flag lapel pin and Australia's involvement in the Iraq war. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/australian-flag-muslim-women-lapel-pin.shtml http://www.hoax-slayer.com/australian-flag-muslim-women-lapel-pin.shtml Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:21:00 GMT Email claims that a scammer can take control of you phone if you key in 90#. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/nine-zero-hash-hoax.html http://www.hoax-slayer.com/nine-zero-hash-hoax.html Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:09:00 GMT Message claims that steel left from the World Trade Center is being used in the construction of new navy assault ship, USS New York (Update). http://www.hoax-slayer.com/uss-new-york-wtc.html http://www.hoax-slayer.com/uss-new-york-wtc.html Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:49:00 GMT