Misleading

Email forward, claiming to be a “Special Prayer Request from Peggy Lesley at Brookwood Church” asks you to pray for an 11 year old boy who has Hodgkin’s Lymphoma before adding your name to the message and sending it to as many people as possible

Message with photographs depicting a modern building with high-quality accommodation and sporting facilities claims that the photographs show a new prison in the UK.

Circulating protest messages claims that refugees receive a substantially higher monthly payment from the Australian government than do Australian pensioners.

Email forward contains a series of images that depict the mid-air break up of a US Air Force F15 jet and the ejection of the pilot.

Circulating message that includes an image described as the ‘Eye of God’ claims the image captures a rare event that only occurs once every 3000 years. 

Email petition that claims to be sponsored by MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) asks recipients to sign the message and send it to others.

Message with attached photographs of two large camel spiders being held up by a soldier claim that the creatures are a danger to troops stationed in Iraq.

Long circulated message claims that a scammer can take control of your phone if you key in 90# (nine-zero-hash). 

Outline Warning message claims that a four-year-old child died in hospital during a minor operation due to interference from a mobile phone…