Email purporting to be from Google AdWords claims that the recipient’s Google ads will be suspended unless payment information is updated.
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 These messages may now be quite outdated and no longer in general circulation.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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Email claims that the recipient has purchased an airline ticket online and should open an attached file to view an invoice and print out the ticket
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Message tells the story of a 70 year old Chinese man who lived with his wife in a mountain cave for fifty years and hand-carved more than 6000 stairs up the mountainside for her.
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Email claims that attached photographs depict a huge living tree located in India in which figures of animals have miraculously grown naturally all over the tree’s trunk without human influence.
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Email claims that attached photographs show a gigantic swimming pool in Chile that has been classified as the world’s largest by Guinness World Records.
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Email forward requests prayers for three year old Katie Fitch who was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma, a very rare form of cancer.
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Message tell the story of a slick lawyer who successfully files an insurance claim for a box of expensive cigars because they were lost “in a series of small fires” as he smoked them.
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Email claims that attached photographs show a shoreline at Yamba NSW that has been inundated with ocean foam.
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Set of photographs show lions biting at and finally destroying the tyre of a Land Rover while the passengers of the vehicle look on apprehensively.
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Emails claim that recipients must confirm or re-validate their account by clicking a link or opening an attachment and providing username and password details or their webmail account will be permanently closed.