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kay lar @jaylar (3724) • Kingston, Jamaica 9 Jun 25

The first time I read Nineteen Eighty Four I did not believe it would happen. Today, it is reality. I walk on the road and just about everyone is on their phones. It isn't just conversations it is being deceived by hoaxes,...

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biased news

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Conspiracy Theories

celticeagle @celticeagle (189880) • Boise, Idaho 16 Jan 21

I am getting all kinds of weird info about the COVID-19 and other subjects in social media. It worries me. I just got one from a family member that was a news story from Ireland saying that COVID-19 doesn't exist. It was on...

hoaxes

fake news

covid 19

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Hoax response gets a strange backlash

TheRealDawn @dawnald (85137) • Shingle Springs, California 10 Jul 17

If you're on Facebook, you've no doubt heard about the Jayden Smith hoax. Don't accept a friend request from him, your computer will be hacked, your money will all go to Nigeria, your nose will fall off, etc. Please send this...

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Scam Phone Call

anne25penn @anne25penn (3305) • Philippines 9 Mar 13

I received a call today from a lady telling me that I had won a prize for being a loyal subscriber of my landline. I was of course wary, but not to be rude I allowed her to finish what she needed to tell me and I got the name of...

hoaxes

scams

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Facebook Hoaxes ... Are You Sick of them?

Just an Ordinary Owl? @owlwings (43897) • Cambridge, England 26 Sep 11

It's Monday. it's RAINING and I wake up to see something completely ridiculous posted by someone who should know better. When I point out that it's a HOAX, I get a message back: "Ha Ha! GOTCHA!" I can cope with people posting...

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Do you always point out to people if they've been victims of internet hoaxes?

vivasuzi @vivasuzi (4127) • United States 10 Feb 10

I hate spoof emails, fake "warnings" and false forwards. Everytime someone sends me a "very important" email forward, I always go straight to the net to look it up. Snopes.com is perfect for this - tells you what is true and what...

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Beware Of Fake Security Softwares

skysuccess @skysuccess (8857) • Singapore 25 Nov 09

Just in case and before you go clicking away on security alerts that pop up when accessing legitimate websites, do hesitate and think twice even thrice for a good measure. The "alert" usually will come in warning of a virus...

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computer

fake security softwares

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Hoax Slayer In Cyber World

skysuccess @skysuccess (8857) • Singapore 25 Nov 09

I wonder if anyone of you here is a subscriber of the Hoax expose site - Hoax Slayer. I felt that this is a very good site which has been debunking email hoaxes and exposing internet scams like Microsoft Email Beta Test, Hyundai...

Uh-oh. Gawker Exclusive: "I Helped Richard Heene Plan a Balloon Hoax."

Laurie1986 @Laurie1986 (384) • United States 18 Oct 09

Gawker.com apparently has an exclusive from 25 year old Robert Thomas, a researcher who says that he was privy to the plans of Richard Heene, Balloon Boy's father. Gawker says that one of the ideas that Thomas and Heene were...

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top 10 lies, rumours myths, legends and email hoaxes of 2008

winterose @winterose (39887) • Canada 26 Dec 08

Do you believe all the crap that comes out in emails, from barack Obama and Sarah Palin, to the computer virus hoaxes, and Bill Gates giving away his fortune? I hate them, hate them, hate them, and frankly I get impatience with...

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Do you believe it?

craftcatcher @craftcatcher (3699) • United States 13 Nov 08

Do you believe everything you read without question? I've seen so many things written up as discussion here on myLot where people say, "I got this e-mail and it said, this whatsits is extremely dangerous. It was written by Dr....

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Bill cosby running as write in candidate?

Rocketj1 @rocketj1 (6955) • United States 12 Sep 08

Have you received an e-mail that says that Bill has a list of things he's like to change in America? I checked it with snopes and it is a total hoax. It's also been passed off as coming from other celebrities. They do not know the...

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hoaxes

internet

presidential candidate

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Text hoaxes plague Obama VP plan!!!

ctrymuziklvr @ctrymuziklvr (11057) • United States 22 Aug 08

As soon as I heard of his plan to "text" his message as to who he was going to choose as his running mate I knew it was a bad idea and very childish if you ask me! CHESAPEAKE, Va. – By the time Barack Obama is ready to announce...

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ebay hoax

lamcouz @lamcouz (101) • Australia 16 Jun 08

What do you think about ebay? I have been quite a regular wandered in ebay since I bought my laptop from there last year. Just until recently, I bought 3 claimed-to-be 8gb usb stick from it, but later found them to be in fact...

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Big Foot....do you believe?

applsofgld @applsofgld (2506) • United States 9 Nov 07

My hubby was watching a tv special tonight on Big Foot. We got into a discussion about it. He thinks maybe there is such a creature, I think it may be an animal of some sort, I don't think it is something from outer space though....

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How many times you won the lottery this week?

earnie @earnie (16) 13 Sep 07

I keep getting the spam mails into my inboxes that you have won the lottry or such and such has died and left you millions of dollars or other types of scam emails, I have about 5 or more a day, which would make me a billionaire...

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internet or hoaxes

mari123 @mari123 (1861) • China 6 Jun 07

You can receive a lot of hoaxes by e-mail. You can visit these website for knowing if you received a real information or an hoax : http://www.hoaxbuster.com (in French) or http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blxnew.htm (in...

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Should people research emails they send, before sending them?

mahmah @mahmah (436) • United States 30 Apr 07

Today I received an email that stated "don't buy pepsi in the new cans". Now this sounded familiar to me but I read the email anyways. It of course was one of those annoying spam emails (almost like a chain letter). As I do with...

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Was I Wrong?

whiteheather39 @whiteheather39 (24403) • United States 27 Apr 07

I waited until today to post this discussion until I had time to cool down as I was angry but most of all I was hurt. Yesterday I received email notification of a warning discussion that one of my friends had received in an email...

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hoaxes

warning discussions

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Hoaxes, chain letters, urban myths and other bogus information on mylot

Swtrose @Swtrose (3385) • Canada 12 Apr 07

Do you think that people should be posting Hoaxes, chain letters, and other bogus information here on mylot. I realize that some may not realize that the email they received and decided to post on here was bogus and they thought...

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