“Friendship” chain email claims that the recipient will be able to view a funny video clip if he or she sends it to at least seven other people.
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 These messages may now be quite outdated and no longer in general circulation.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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Unsolicited emails promise easily procured, low interest loans to recipients.
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Email forward claims that attached photographs show a lightning storm meeting a large volcanic eruption in Chile.
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Email forward claims that attached $5 off Target coupons can be printed and continually used until October 2008.
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Email that features photographs of a man apparently defying gravity by holding himself aloft with just one hand against a wall claims that the man is a German street performer named Johan Lorbeere.
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Email forward claims that attached photographs show a $4.8 million diamond covered Mercedes owned by Prince Waleed of Saudi Arabia
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Email forward includes a photograph apparently showing a massive bunch of bananas hanging from a very tall banana tree.
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As I have discussed in a number of other Hoax-Slayer articles, advance fee lottery scams are one of the most common types…
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Emails purporting to be from delivery company, UPS, claim that a package sent by the recipient could not be delivered. The messages instruct the recipient to open an attachment to print out an invoice.
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Email claims that attached images show seven trucks that have been cleverly painted to advertise particular products.