Email warns that cheap rubber hair bands from China may have been made from used condoms.
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 These messages may now be quite outdated and no longer in general circulation.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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Outline: Email claims that the recipient must supply account details within five days or his or her Yahoo account will be closed.…
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Email claims that a car being developed in India runs on compressed air and can travel up to 125 miles for only 2 dollars.
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Email claims that attached photographs show an extensive gun collection that belonged to the late actor, Charlton Heston.
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Email claims that an attached photographs shows the tornado the killed four boy scouts at an Iowa camp ground in June 2008.
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“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.
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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.