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According to this message, which purports to be from hotmail.com, your Hotmail account has been suspended and your email address has been removed from the database. 

This email claims that your Amazon account was used to buy a $250 Gift Card. It notes that, if you did not purchase the card or believe that an unauthorized person has accessed your account, you should click a "cancel order" link.

A favourite scammer trick is to pretend that a recent lottery winner has decided to give away part of his or her winnings via the Internet.  

Email purporting to be an order notification from Apple claims that you have purchased an Apple Store Gift Card valued at $100.

Supposedly, you can help 13-year-old Annakay Brown pay for life-saving medical treatment just by sending on a message about her.  

Individuals and organizations all around the world are receiving emails that claim that an explosive device has been placed in the buildings they work in.

Keep an eye out for fraudulent Christmas themed Facebook Pages promising valuable prizes in exchange for liking, sharing, and commenting.  

As Christmas draws near, many more products than usual are bought online. Internet shopping giant Amazon is thus a favourite target for phishing scammers.

Circulating report claims that Russian scientists have found 6 giant human skeletons while excavating a site in western Iran.

I discuss the old myth that elephants are terrified of tiny mice. Is there any substance to the story?

According to various posts that are currently circulating on Facebook, you can get free McDonald's meals just by sharing and commenting. 

According to a post being shared on Facebook, you can win a 2019 Mini Cooper just by sharing and commenting and liking the Page the post was published on. 

According to this email, someone has sent you a file using online file hosting service Dropbox.  The email urges you to click a link to see the file.

Circulating message claims that you can help provide food for abused and neglected animals simply by clicking a button on the Animal Rescue Site.

According to a post that is circulating rapidly on Facebook, UK supermarket chain Morrisons is giving Facebook users a free £150 coupon to celebrate Christmas.

According to a message that has circulated online for more than a decade, attached photographs depict amazing striped icebergs taken in the Antarctic region.

According to this email, PayPal has temporarily suspended your account 'due to some issues in the automatic verification process". 

According to a message that is circulating via WhatsApp, the company has decided to let the app "work without Internet" at no extra cost. 

According to this email, your Netflix account has been put on hold because the company is having trouble with your current billing information. 

According to this message, which is currently being distributed via SMS, you have been "mentioned on a photo". 

Unfortunately,  it is true that Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of much-loved animated series SpongeBob SquarePants has died.

This email, which purports to be from "FedEx.com Online Services", supposedly supplies information about an order that is about to be delivered to you.

Australian residents have been receiving fraudulent text messages claiming that they are owed a Medicare rebate. The text messages are phishing scams.

Australia Post is warning consumers about fraudulent text messages that claim that they have won a prize.

According to this widely circulated message, WhatsApp will donate money to help a blind baby each time her picture is shared.