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Category: Hoax Debunkings

Pension Hoax Claims Congressmen Don’t Pay Social Security

April 1, 2005 Ken Newquist Hoax Debunkings, Hoaxes

An hoax e-mail circulating since well before the November 2004 elections claims that congressmen sweet pension deal means they don’t have to pay into Social Security. Here’s the hoax I collected back before the election (and have only just now[…]

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Budweiser Frogs Threaten Virus Havoc

February 26, 2004 Ken Newquist Hoax Debunkings, Hoaxes

An old e-mail hoax featuring the Budweiser Frogs has recently re-surfaced with a slightly re-tooled message of digital destruction. The original version of the e-mail, which I last remember seeing when the Budweiser Frogs were still popular (about 1999) just[…]

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Downtrodden Debbie Shwartz Hoax Claims AOL Will Give Her Money for E-mail

January 25, 2004 Ken Newquist Hoax Debunkings, Hoaxes

A tragedy-filled, tear-jerking e-mail claims you’re a heartless if you don’t forward an e-mail that will net a distraught mother .12 cents from AOL for every person you send it to. But if you do forward it, what you’ll be[…]

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“Life Is Beautiful” Virus is a Hoax

January 13, 2004 Ken Newquist Hoax Debunkings, Hoaxes

An e-mail that claims that life won’t be beautiful if you unleash a virus hidden in a Power Point attachment is a hoax. The hoax says the name of this nefarious hoax is “Life is Beautiful” and claims it will[…]

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Virus Hoaxer Claims ‘It Takes Guts to Say Jesus’

January 1, 2004 Ken Newquist Hoax Debunkings, Hoaxes, Uncategorized

Jesus wants your soul. He also wants your hard drive. Or at least that’s what the writer of the “It Take Guts to Say Jesus” virus hoax would have readers believe. This hoax is ancient — I got my first[…]

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Free Perfume Samples Kill Women Victims

October 26, 2003 Ken Newquist Hoax Debunkings, Hoaxes

Drawing on remembered fear of the anthrax scare, an e-mail hoax is alleging that seven women have died after inhaling few perfume samples they received in the mail. I wrote the original debunking on 12/16, but updated it on 10/24[…]

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Rat Urine on Soda Can Kills Store Clerk

October 8, 2003 Ken Newquist Hoax Debunkings

In 1999/2000, an e-mail hoax surfaced claiming that a man in Hawaii died after being exposed to rat urine in the back room of a supermarket. Although it offered good advice — always wipe off your soda can before drinking[…]

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British Airways Promises Free Tickets for Forwarded E-mail

June 23, 2003 Ken Newquist Hoax Debunkings, Hoaxes

SARS has taken a heavy toll, both in terms of human life and economic prosperity. A new e-mail hoax plays off of that malady, combining it with malease over the Iraq War in a play to get people to forward[…]

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Israeli Satellite Captures Columbia’s Destruction on Film

March 19, 2003 Ken Newquist Hoax Debunkings, Hoaxes

An e-mail allegding that an Israeli satellite took pictures of the orbiter Columbia as it exploded during re-entry is a hoax. In reality, the pictures depict a scene from the opening of the movie Armageddon, in which the shuttle is[…]

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Customers Pricked by HIV Needles at Gas Pump

February 1, 2003 Ken Newquist Hoax Debunkings, Hoaxes

What’s the one thing that can get motorists’ minds off the sting of high gas prices? That’s right — the Attack of the Killer HIV Needle! An email that I first saw in the Summer of 2000 alleges that some[…]

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Nuketown is a speculative fiction website that’s been published continuously since 1996.

It’s publishing focus is articles, reviews and editorials about science fiction, fantasy, and horror with heroic overtones. It covers a variety of topics within the speculative fiction genre, including games, movies, soundtracks, books, and websites.

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