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Hoaxes & Urban Legends
An "urban legend" is not the same thing as a "fictional tale" or an "apocryphal anecdote," although many people mistakenly use the term in that sense. A tale is considered to be an urban legend if it circulates widely, is told and re-told with differing details (or exists in multiple versions), and is said to be true. Whether or not the events described in the tale ever actually occurred is completely irrelevant to its classification as an urban legend.
3oddballz.com
...Common E-mail Hoaxes
The following is a list of some of the more popular internet hoaxes, Urban Legends, Rumors, and Junk, that are being widely circulated through Your E-mail. Please familiarize yourself with these lies and see to it that you do not fall prey to this garbage.
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about.com
...Urban Legends
A handpicked gallery of odd and arresting viral images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated on the Web and via forwarded email.
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breakthechain.org
...Junk Emails
There are all sorts of junk e-mails floating around the Internet, but perhaps the most offensive is the junk we send each other: bogus virus warnings, urban legends, offers of easy cash, letters that promise to help sick kids... the list goes on. 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.
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hoaxbusters.ciac.org
...Chain Letters or Hoaxes
Interspersed among the junk mail and spam that fills our Internet e-mail boxes are dire warnings about devastating new viruses, Trojans that eat the heart out of your system, and malicious software that can steal the computer right off your desk. Added to that are messages about free money, children in trouble, and other items designed to grab you and get you to forward the message to everyone you know. Most all of these messages are hoaxes or chain letters.
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hoax-slayer.com
...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 counteract criminal activity by publishing information about common types of Internet scams.
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howstuffworks.com
...How Urban Legends Work
Legend or Misinformation? Folklorists have come up with a number of definitions for urban legend. To many, a legend must be a story, with characters and some sort of plot. Others lump widely dispersed misinformation into the urban-legend category.
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liemails.com
Untrue Emails are LieMails
Have you received e-mails from friends or co-workers about a computer virus? Or asking you to watch for a missing child? Or suggesting that some big company will send you a check for forwarding their e-mails? Almost all such e-mails are simply not true. They destroy the sender's credibility. And it's EASY to check on such things BEFORE you forward them.
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locallegend.proboards41.com
...Local Legends in the UK
Rumours of millions stashed away...The voices make him do it...Tragedy - She was normal until the budgie died...Do not approach!
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museumofhoaxes.com
...Museum of Hoaxes
Examining dubious claims and mischief of all kinds. The Museum of Hoaxes is dedicated to promoting knowledge about the phenomenon of hoaxes. On our blog (to the left) we post about dubious-sounding claims — and whatever else strikes our fancy. But there's more to the museum than the blog. Check out our historical wing, which contains hundreds of articles about famous hoaxes, arranged chronologically from the Middle Ages right up to the present.
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religioustolerance.org
...Christian urban legends, pious frauds, forgeries, neat stories, relics, belief systems...
Christian Urban Legends are stories of events with a Christian theme that never happened. They are generally created by a Christian individual or group as a fictional account because they give concrete support to their beliefs.
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scambusters.org
...ScamBusters
Email urban legends and email hoaxes (which are what we focus on at ScamBusters) usually tell recipients to forward the email to everyone they know. In fact, that's one of the tell-tale signs that you have a false urban legend or hoax! Check out these popular emails to discover whether they are true -- or just urban legends or hoaxes.
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snopes.com
...New Urban Legends
...Folklore, Rumors & Urban Legends
Urban legends are a specific type of folklore, and many of the items discussed on this site do not fall under the folkloric definition of "urban legend." We are following the more expansive popular (if inaccurate) use of "urban legend" as a term that embraces not only urban legends but also common fallacies, misinformation, old wives' tales, strange news stories, rumors, celebrity gossip, and similar items.
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tafkac.org
...Urban Legends
The AFU & Urban Legends archive.
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truthorfiction.com
...Be among the first to know about new eRumors, Viruses, Internet Hoaxes
Check out rumors, inspirational stories, virus warnings, humorous tales, pleas for help, urban legends, prayer requests and calls to action to see if they are TRUTH! or FICTION!
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urbanlegendsonline.com
...Urban Legends & Superstitions
Welcome to a comprehensive site for creepy and interesting myths and superstitions. You'll learn about some of the most popular urban legends and you'll kill some time while you should be working.
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vmyths.com
...Vmyths
A treatise, an excellent comprehensive presentation on viruses, hoaxes, myths, misconceptions, urban legends, media flops and fiascoes, plus computer virus hysteria awards
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warphead.com
...Urban Legends
An Urban Legend is a short tale that is told and retold as true, although it usually has little or no basis in reality or can't be confirmed one way or another. Whether we know it or not we've all heard them, usually as something that happened to a "friend of a friend".
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wikipedia.org
...Urban Myths
An urban legend or urban myth is similar to a modern folklore consisting of stories thought to be factual by those circulating them. The term is often used to mean something akin to an "apocryphal story". Urban legends are not necessarily untrue, but they are often distorted, exaggerated, or sensationalized over time.
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wwnorton.com
...To Good To Be True
The Colossal Book of Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand
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