Message warns that an email attachment named “Black Muslim in the White House” or “Black in the White House” contains a damaging computer virus that can destroy the hard drive of the infected computer.
Links to reports about older hoaxes, scams, and true stories. These messages may now be quite outdated and no longer in general circulation. However, they may still occasionally come your way and also retain some historical value.
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Emails, purporting to be from Australia’s St.George Bank, claim that the recipient needs to click a link to login to his or account
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Email sent to website owners claims to be an enquiry about buying links on the targeted website
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Warning message claims that an email with an attachment entitled “POSTCARD” or “POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK” will destroy the hard drive of the infected computer and has been classified by Microsoft and CNN as the most destructive virus ever.
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Message warns that Panadol is toxic to the body and should never be taken.
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Warning message claims that an email with an attached Power Point presentation called “Life is beautiful” is a virus that will destroy all files on the infected computer.
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Message warns that an email with the subject “It Takes Guts to Say Jesus” carries a virus that will erase everything on your hard drive.
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Message claims that a screensaver featuring the Budweiser Frogs contains a dangerous computer virus.
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Virus protection “tip” claims that you can counter email worms simply by placing a phony email address such “AAAAAAA@AAA.AAA” as the first entry in your address book.