Warning message claims that criminals in the UK are placing infant car seats containing fake babies on the sides of rural roads as a means of tricking potential victims into stopping their cars so that gang members can rape and rob them as part of a gang initiation.
urban legend
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Long circulated story relates how a racist airline passenger receives her comeuppance from airline staff.
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Misleading
The Faded Gingham Dress – Stanford University Origin Legend
by Brett M. Christensen May 15, 2018This 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.
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Hoaxes
Hoax Message Warns Users Not To Contact DreamWeaverGrey
by Brett M. Christensen April 30, 2018Circulating hoax message warns users not to make any contact with a person with the screen-name “DreamWeaverGrey” because he is a suspect in the murders of 56 women that he met through the Internet.
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Circulating social media message claims a little girl went missing in an ASDA store but was later found in the store’s toilets where a “foreign man and woman” were changing her clothes and cutting her hair.
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Hoaxes
HOAX – ‘Chemical Laced $100 Bills Placed on Cars to Kidnap Drivers’
by Brett M. Christensen November 27, 2017Circulating message claims that criminals are placing $100 bills laced with a debilitating chemical on cars as a means of making drivers who touch the note pass out so that they can be kidnapped or assaulted.
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Bogus WarningsHoaxes
Hoax Warning: Lost Child Lure — ‘New Way for Gang Members to Rape Women’
by Brett M. Christensen June 16, 2017Circulating message warns that violent gang members are using children who pretend to be lost as a means of tricking women into going to gang houses where they will be raped.
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Hoaxes
Aldi Version of Perfume Car Park Robberies Myth Now Circulating
by Brett M. Christensen April 7, 2017Circulating message warns that criminals lurking in Aldi car parks are using ether disguised as perfume to debilitate and rob victims
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Outline Email forward claims that gang members are hiding in the back seats of cars in order to abduct young women driving…
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Hoaxes
Bogus Warning – Don’t Flash Headlights Gang Initiation
by Brett M. Christensen February 2, 2017Message purporting to be from security company Chubb warns drivers not to flash their headlights at any cars driving with no lights on. The message claims that, as part of a gang initiation, gang members will chase any car that flashes them and shoot and kill all of the cars occupants.
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