Hoaxes

According to a post that is currently circulating rapidly on social media, Nobel Prize-winning Japanese physician-scientist Professor Tasuku Honjo has told media outlets that coronavirus is not natural and that it was made by China.

News outlets in Australia are reporting on a hoax message that falsely claims to have been sent by the newly released COVIDSafe app. 

A post that is currently circulating via social media suggests that there was a coronavirus vaccine available as early as 2001. 

According to this supposed warning message, you should not accept a video called “Move your cucu” because it is a very dangerous virus that will format your mobile phone. 

According to a social media message that is currently circulating in French and English, you should not accept a video called “Dance of the Dad” because it is a virus that will format your cell phone.

According to a post that is currently circulating via WhatsApp, you should not join a group called “Hearts of Love”.

Circulating message claims that an attached image depicts the deadly ‘snow snake’. According to the message, the snake’s venom will fatally freeze the blood of those bitten.

Message claims that attached photographs show a B737 aircraft just before it crashed after a mid-air collision with an Embraer Legacy jet over South America

Circulating message featuring images of a large snake claims that the snake is a 15 foot long Eastern Brown snake caught near a golf course at Caloundra, Queensland, Australia.