Message warns that a campaign asking people to change their profile picture to a cartoon character is actually a scheme run by a paedophile group.
If you use the remote access service LogMeIn, keep an eye out for a fake email claiming that a security update has…
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‘Maldives 2021’ Facebook Giveaway Scam
by Brett M. Christensen
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According to a post currently being shared across Facebook, you can win a 14-night vacation at a luxury Maldives resort just by sharing and commenting.
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Bogus Warnings
Inaccurate Warning about Fake $50 Australian Banknotes
by Brett M. Christensen December 3, 2010Circulating message claims to show recipients how to detect fake $50 Australian Banknotes. The message suggests that fake notes can be determined by a missing name under a portrait and by the order of signatures.
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Message warns drivers in the UK that police will be stopping drivers with snow on the roof of their cars and issuing them with a fixed penalty consisting of a £60 fine and the loss of three points.
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Health Hoaxes
Warning from ‘British Ministry of Health’ – Danger From Broken Energy Saving Bulbs
by Brett M. Christensen November 11, 2010Message claiming to be a warning from the British Ministry of Health outlines mercury contamination dangers associated with the cleanup and disposal of broken compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFL’s).
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Email purporting to be from Hilton Hotels in London, offers the recipient a lucrative job with the company.
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Post circulating via Facebook walls urges users to follow a link to another page and click the publish button in order to read a “very important message”.
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Circulating photographs and videos purportedly depict an iceberg floating in the ocean near Cape Town, South Africa.
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Message claims that attached photographs show a very large crocodile caught and killed at Borroloola in Australia’s Northern Territory after it annoyed a local fisherman by eating the propeller off his outboard.
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Email, purporting to be from Jean Paul Garang, who claims to be the son of the late Dr. John Garang, leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, ask the recipient for help in accessing a fifteen million dollar deposit currently held by a European finance firm.
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Hoaxes
‘Interesting Fact’ About October 2010 – 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, 5 Sundays
by Brett M. Christensen October 9, 2010Message claims that October 2010 has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays and that this combination of days only occurs once in 823 years.