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Links to reports that discuss circulating messages that are true but may be mistaken for hoaxes or scams.
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Circulating message warns that grapes and raisins are toxic to dogs and cats.
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Photographs circulating via email and social media show a large alligator with a full-grown deer in its mouth.
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Message with a series of attached pictures claims that the pictures were created on a typewriter by the artist Paul Smith.
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Circulating Message Claims ‘Newborn Baby Saved By Stray Dog’
by Brett M. Christensen February 5, 2019Circulating social media message claims that a newborn baby abandoned in a forest was carried across a busy road and through a barbed wire fence to safety by a stray dog.
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Fabulous photographs that depict an “ice storm” at a Swiss lake have been circulating via email since 2005.
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Circulating message claims that the famous stone statues of Easter Island are not just heads but also have bodies buried beneath the surface.
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TRUE — The Tale of The Lion, Tiger and Bear Rescued from a Drug Dealer
by Brett M. Christensen December 20, 2018Circulating message that features a photograph depicting a lion, a tiger and a bear together claims that the animals were rescued from a drug dealer’s property early in their lives and have lived together in an animal sanctuary ever since.
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Circulating message claims that you can help provide food for abused and neglected animals simply by clicking a button on the Animal Rescue Site.
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According to a message that has circulated online for more than a decade, attached photographs depict amazing striped icebergs taken in the Antarctic region.