Identifying Internet Hoaxes
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| 7 Fantastic Internet Hoaxes | Despite our increasing technological sophistication, we can't help falling for e-mail about Bigfoot, giant mutant cats, doomed tourists, and deadly butt spiders. | |
| Break the Chain | BreakTheChain.org tries to educate the world that e-mail is an unreliable medium for sharing information and that the first step to reducing the amount of junk out there is to stop sending it yourself. | |
| Department of Homeland Security - Identifying Hoaxes and Urban Legends | Chain letters are familiar to anyone with an e-mail account, whether they are sent by strangers or well-intentioned friends or family members. Try to verify the information before following any instructions or passing the message along. | |
| Email and virus hoax information | Sophos provides information about virus hoaxes to assist companies and individuals. Although we do provide information about some non-virus-related hoaxes, chain letters, scams and misunderstandings, the primary aim of this section of the website is to pr | |
| Hoax Busters | The big list of Internet hoaxes | |
| Hoax Encyclopedia | Virus hoaxes, scams, and chain letters abound in email. Before forwarding that dire sounding warning or too good to be true promise, check the validity of it here. Chances are, it's a hoax. | |
| Latest Email Hoaxes - Current Internet Scams | Hoax-Slayer is dedicated to debunking email hoaxes, thwarting Internet scammers, combating spam, and educating web users about email and Internet security issues. Hoax-Slayer allows Internet users to check the veracity of common email hoaxes and aims to c | |
| New & Updated Urban legends, email rumors & Internet hoaxes | New & Updated Urban legends, email rumors & Internet hoaxes | |
| Recognize Internet hoaxes and viruses before the joke is on you | It's a sad state of affairs when each visit to your email inbox seems to bring with it more unsolicited messages than the day before. Even if you're using a junk mail filter with your email client, junk mail like spam, advertisements and chain letters can | |
 | Smelling a hoax a mile away by using a little common sense | It is amazing how quickly the world knew in September 2001 that America was under attack, but years after discovering that a specific e-mail is a hoax, people still don’t know about it. The main problem for this is that people don’t really take the time a |
| Snopes | Identifying the truth from the hoaxes | |
| The Hoaxkill Service - Let's get rid of hoaxes now! | Welcome to HoaxKill. The web service dedicated to telling as many people as possible not to forward useless petitions, urban legends and false virus warnings. | |
| Tips for dealing with hoaxes | Internet is full of information. Some of it is valuable and important, some of it just exist and that’s all. But there’s one more type of information. It is called hoax. It’s false information about important things. Hoaxes aren’t harmful for your PC syst | |
| Top 10 internet scams of 2009 | Web users have been warned to that 2009 will see a large rise in internet scams, as fraudsters seek to exploit surfers' financial anxieties during the financial downturn. | |
| Truth about computer security hysteria | Vmyths sells the truth about computer security hysteria. We take no prisoners; we pull no punches; and we refuse computer security ads in order to maintain our independence. |