Recent Posts – Latest Information

According to a post that is circulating via Facebook, you can help a sick child just by sharing her picture.  The post, which includes a photograph of a young child in a hospital bed, claims that every time her picture is shared, she will receive a $1 donation towards her medical expenses. 

According to this email, which purports to be from Australian government services website MyGov, you are eligible to receive a tax refund. 

Various conspiracy theory websites are using a photograph that supposedly depicts a crashed UFO as evidence that the US government is covering up encounters with alien beings.

This email, which is supposedly from credit card provider Visa, claims that the company has detected problems regarding your credit card and needs you to "verify some informations' before you can use the card again.

Widely circulated message claims that soursop, the fruit from the graviola tree, is a miraculous natural cancer killer that is 10,000 times stronger than chemotherapy.

According to a message that circulates via social media and various blogs and online forums, a woman in California is suing her parents because she blames them for passing on "ugly genes" that caused her to have "unpleasant physical features".

Email forward tells the story of two Egyptian children who were buried alive by their murderous father but miraculously survived underground for fifteen days with the help of a "man wearing shiny white clothes, with bleeding wounds in his hands".

According to this email,  which purports to be from PayPal, you sent a payment to Netflix.com.  The email has the subject line "Receipt for Your Payment to Netflix.com".

According to a post that is currently being shared on Facebook, you can win a 2018  Ford Raptor just by sharing the post and then visiting a website to claim your prize. 

Circulating message claims that licking envelopes to seal them can result in cockroach eggs incubating and hatching in the person's mouth.

Message claims that attached photographs show a new speed control tactic that consists of laying very realistic looking fake pothole stickers on the roadway.

According to a message that is circulating via social media, former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh has earned first place in '50 Photos of Loyal Person In the World' conducted by the White House in the US.

Circulating message claims that consumers can identify what country a product was manufactured in by analyzing the first 3 digits of the product's barcode.

Message purporting to be from a cardiac specialist claims that drinking water at specified times of the day can help activate organs, aid digestion, lower blood pressure and stop people from suffering strokes or heart attacks.

My mum always told me that having a glass of warm milk before bed would help me sleep. So have innumerable magazines, books, and websites. And, even some reputable medical publications.

According to a message that circulates via WhatsApp, SMS, and social media websites, opening a picture of Donald Trump suffering from a stroke will destroy all of the information on your phone and computer. 

The newsletter will feature articles from Hoax-Slayer and other interesting and relevant websites. It will help you stay informed about current Internet scams and hoaxes, important computer security issues, and related tech topics.

Circulating message claims that consumers can tell the chemical makeup of tube contents just by checking the colour of a small square at the bottom of the packaging. A newer variant focuses on toothpaste tubes.

This email, which purports to be from container shipping company Maersk Line, claims that you can open an attached file to view original shipping documents supposedly related to a consignment that is being shipped to you.  

This enduring and entertaining tale supposedly outlines the origins of California's prestigious Stanford University. However, while core elements in the tale are more or less factual, as a whole it strays a long way from the truth.

Message warns people not to use fingernails to scratch off the coating on scratch tickets because the coating contains a substance called "Silver Nitro oxide" that can cause skin cancer.

This beautiful, albeit clearly photoshopped, image circulates via social media websites, blogs, and online forums. It is usually touted as an example of "beautiful nature", "our wonderful world" or similar.

Sadly, you can just about guarantee that a new celebrity death hoax will appear on one of your social media feeds every few weeks.

Circulating message questions the mystery of a modern astronaut figure carved onto the wall of a centuries old cathedral in Salamanca, Spain.

Message circulating via email and the blogosphere warns that Monster Energy Drinks claw "M" logo is actually made up of the Hebrew letter vav repeated three times to make the number 666 and is, therefore, the mark of Satan.