Hoaxes and Urban Legends: "Osama captured" / "Osama hanged" virus hoax
Whenever you receive an email that urges you to immediately forward that mail to everyone you know, there is a very good chance the email is a hoax. Please take the time to verify the message by doing a Google search before you send it on to anyone else. In most cases when you take an arbitrary sentence from the message and google for it you'll end up with many hoax warning pages as the result.
The following email is one such hoax. Though there really was a virus that used a message about Osama bin Laden captured or hanged to entrap people to open a virus-attachment, that was several years ago. Current virus scanners would catch this virus if it still circulated. Also, the Olympic torch / Invitation virus mentioned in this chain letter is a known hoax. Therefore do not forward that hoax email to others.
Please review:
Osama Bin Laden Virus Warning Hoax (Trend Micro)
Messages that Claim to Have Pictures of Osama Bin Laden's Suicide is Actually a Virus-Truth! & Fiction! (truthorfiction.com)
Known email hoaxes:
The AOL/Microsoft money giveaway hoax
The "809" area code hoax
The burned baby hoax
Amy Bruce / Make A Wish hoax
The "Invitation" virus hoax
The "Life is beautiful" virus hoax
The Oliver North / Osama bin Ladin / Al Gore hoax
Send spam to the South African police to save children
Exxon/Mobile gas boycott
Bush IQ report / Lovenstein Institute hoax
Monkeyman935 warning hoax
Kidney Theft urban legend
Ashley Flores, 13 (missing child hoax)
How to detect a two-way mirror
$50 call-back spam
Cooking an egg with cell phones
"Osama captured" / "Osama hanged" virus
A tale of Japanese Lizards and Love
The $5 killer
Audi A8 made out of silver
ATM PIN code entered in reverse will call the police
Mars spectacularly close to Earth on August 27
"An old lady walked into a Grocery Store..."
"Allah or the Lord Jesus Christ?"
"PDA+GSM Palm Treo 650 dan Treo 680 dan Treo 750"
Bayer drug contains HIV
Forward or lose your Hotmail account
Chinese "fix" jet engine with seatbelts
AOL will donate five cents for baby's brain cancer operation
Ericsson distributing free laptops
Art Bell Filipino hate letter
Hypodermic needles on gas pump handles
"Through a rapist's eyes" / Crying Baby theory
Sheryl Crow / John Hopkins Cancer update about plastic bottles
2 opmerkingen:
Nog een Virus HOAX, de grote AIDS hoax
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Ja zeg, Ko, ik durf nergens meer op te klikken, wordt mij te link!!
anzi
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