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Have you come across a Facebook Page that claims that US actor and comedian Tyler Perry is giving away cash and expensive gifts to his fans just for liking, commenting and sharing?  If so, don't be tempted to participate. These Facebook Pages are scams.

This supposed invoice email, which purports to be from Apple, thanks you for purchasing a MacBook laptop computer. The email, which uses the Apple logo and colour scheme, includes images of the laptop along with details of the order. 

This message tells the story of Daisy, a guide dog who lead her blind owner and almost 1000 others out of the doomed WTC towers after the 9/11 terrorist attack.

Message featuring a photograph of horses sheltering under a giant table and chairs claims that the horse owner built the massive furniture after he was denied council permission to build a more traditional horse shelter.

According to a post that is currently circulating rapidly on Facebook, you can click to get 5 free tickets for the popular UK theme park Alton Towers. Supposedly, the tickets are being given away as a means of celebrating the theme park's 39th anniversary. 

According to this email, which purports to be from AOL,  your account will be cancelled if you do not click a link to "switch to the new AOL OATH".  

Long circulated tip claims that hanging a plastic bag half filled with water and containing four pennies will repel flies.

According to a post that is currently appearing on Facebook, you can win one of seven tiny houses just by liking and sharing. The post, which was published on a Facebook Page that calls itself "Holiday Club", claims that the winners will be chosen at random on 21st June.

Emails that appear to be from PayPal claim that the recipient has purchased an expensive item via eBay and has sent a payment for the item to the seller.

Message claims that smartphone instant messaging application WhatsApp needs its users to re-send the same message to everyone on their contact lists to prove that they are active users because the company's "servers have recently been really full" or are "very congested".

Circulating message claims that a series of attached photographs show trees cocooned in spider webs after millions of spiders climbed up into trees to take refuge from floods in Pakistan.

In early June 2018, rumours began circulating via social media that claimed that much-loved  Glen, New Hampshire theme park Story Land was closing down in the fall.

Chain message claims to present photographic evidence that the moon was once split in two thereby supposedly giving scientific support to Islamic stories of a miracle once performed by the Prophet Muhammad in which he split the moon into two parts.

Circulating message claims that a child went missing at Legoland but was later found with a shaved head and new clothes, drugged in a stroller, and ready to be taken out of the theme park by his would-be abductors.

Message claims that a large quantity of UPS uniforms has recently been bought on eBay and that the uniforms could be used by criminals or terrorists posing as delivery drivers.

According to a post that is being shared on Facebook, you can click to get two free tickets courtesy of Australian airline Jetstar.  Supposedly, Jetstar is giving away the tickets as a means of celebrating "15 years of quality service".

A number of reports are currently circulating that claim that the FBI is asking users to reboot their routers as a means of combating a malware threat.

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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".