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10 ways to find whether an email is a hoax?

Posted on : 22-01-2009 | By : Karthik | In : Hacks, email, zeroes-basics

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Search here for All Hoax emails and fake Virus Alerts Worldover

These days I am sure you will get a lot of email forwards. A percentage of which are hoax or rumor.

The emails are written in such a way that even your best friends believe it’s absolutely true and forward to you with a lot of interest. Few hoax mails:

  • Bill Gates sharing his fortune. Microsoft and AOL are running an e-mail beta test. For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay you $245.00 For every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, Microsoft will pay you $243.00 and for every third person that receives it, You will be paid $241.00. Within two weeks, Microsoft will contact you for your address and then send you a check.
  • Internet users can receive free laptop computers from Ericsson for forwarding an email message to eight friends.
  • There is an email with subject line obama acceptance speech floating around with a trojan horse attachment. The trojan steals all passwords and user ids.
  • We have identified a new computer virus that arrives in an e-mail with the subject line “Mail Server Report”.
  • Cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sales calls. YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS…
  • To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone: 888-382-1222. It is the national DO NOT CALL list.
  • Warning about scammers’ running up long-distance charges by asking victims to press #-9-0 on their telephones.

Result is a chain email with waste of time & resource for everyone apart from building up misconceptions.

Here are 10 ways to find whether an email is hoax.

  1. Initial Luring content to make it interesting.A threat that warns you of dire consequences if you don’t do what it says.
  2. A humble request to further spread the hoax.
  3. Hoaxes will often include a promise that it is not a hoax
  4. Use Snopes.com to find whether the content is true or hoax. With Snopes you can even contribute by submitting rumors and fake photos or videos.
  5. Search in hoax-slayer.com.
  6. Search in Hoaxkill.com
  7. Search in Scambusters.
  8. Use Truthorfiction.com. All types of fictious issues including insects. [ex- Warning about Formosan Termites-Fiction! ]
  9. Use the F-Secure Hoax, Virus and Spyware Description Database.
  10. Use Vmyths.com
  11. Hoax search engine
    Search for:

Golden Rule:

!0000 trick
10 CDs hoax (Ten CDs hoax)
14.4k modem virus
2400 baud modem subcarrier virus
419 fraud (Money Transfer hoax)
6210 radiation hoax (Nokia cellphone radiation hoax)
A Bug’s Life screen saver virus
A.I.D.S. (Open: Very Cool)
A.I.D.S. virus
A4F-Spoof (AOL4FREE)
Abercrombie and Fitch
ACE (Cell Phone hoax)
Advance fee fraud (Money Transfer hoax)
AF1 virus
AIDS (Open: Very Cool)
Al Gore and the Scriptures
All Seeing Eye virus
All Seeing Eye Virus hoax
Amazon.com and Anti-Semitism
Anna Cohen Letter
anti-CDA (Meme)
Anti-CDA hoax (Meme hoax)
AOL Account Monitoring hoax
AOL Account Monitoring hoax
AOL Badguy hoax
AOL Badguy hoax
AOL Badguy hoax twist (Frozen IM hoax)
AOL hacker riot/virus threat
AOL IM chain letter
AOL IM chain letter
AOL IM Trojan/virus
AOL Price petition
AOL Price petition
AOL Riot 2 hoax
AOL Riot 2 hoax
AOL v4.0 cookie Trojan
AOL2000 Update
AOL2000 Update
AOL4FREE
AOL4FREE
Applebees Gift Certificate Gift Certificate hoax
Applebees Gift Certificate Gift Certificate hoax
Are UPS Uniforms Being Bought by Terrorists?
ASP hoax
ASP hoax
ASP virus
ATM virus
Baby New Year virus
Bananas: Are They Safe?
Barbie chain letter
Barbie chain letter
Bath and Body Works
Bath and Body Works hoax
Bath and Body Works hoax
Be My Valentine hoax
Be My Valentine virus
Bill 602P hoax
Bill 602P hoax
Bill Gates $1,000 virus
Bill Gates Email Tracking (Email Tracking)
Bloat (MP3 virus)
Bloat MP3 virus
Blotto virus hoax
Blotto virus hoax
Blue Mountain
Blue Mountain
Blue Mountain Arts (Blue Mountain)
Blush Spider
Bud Frogs
Bud Frogs
Bud Frogs virus
BuddyList hoax (BuddyLst hoax)
BuddyLst hoax
BuddyLst hoax
BuddyLst virus
Budfrogs (Bud Frogs)
Budsaver (Bud Frogs)
Budweiser Frogs (Bud Frogs)
BUGGLST
BUGGLST
Bug’s Life (BUGGLST)
California virus hoax (Wobbler virus hoax)
Cancer chain letter
Casey horror story chain letter
Celcom Screen Saver
Celcom Screen Saver (CellSaver)
CELCOM screen saver virus
Cell Phone hoax
Cell Phone virus hoax (Cell Phone hoax)
CellSaver
Champagne Lovers chain letter
Christmas Tree
Christmas Tree
Christmas Tree Warnings (Christmas Tree)
Cicadas: Are They Really Vicious Killers — and Can You Earn Money Collecting Them?
Clingerman (Klingerman Virus hoax)
Clip chain letter
C-Nile
Coca Cola for a Month — Free?
Cola-Cola hoax
Combination virus alerts
Cookie chain letter (Neiman-Marcus Cookie chain letter)
Costa Rica Bananas Infection hoax (Infected Bananas hoax)
Cracker Barrel Gift Certificate hoax
Crazy70707 IM hoax (Frozen IM hoax)
Crotale (Matra)
Cyanide Laced Deposit Envelopes
Cyber Promotions CDs hoax (Ten CDs hoax)
Daisy Chain virus
DeafSupport e-mail hoax
Death69 virus
Deeyenda (Deeyenda Maddick)
Deeyenda Maddick
Deeyenda Maddick virus
Defrag (Good Times)
Derffle Virus hoax
Deutsche Telekom warning hoax
DIGIPHONE hoax (ERICELL enginer hoax)
Direct-threat chain letters
DisneyWorld hoax
Does KFC Use Real Chickens?
Don’t Delete Iwon.com chain letter
Don’t Lick Envelopes urban legend
Dr. Simons hoax (Money Transfer hoax)
Drew Kennedy virus hoax
Easter comics
EBOLA [computer] virus
El Poco virus
El Poco virus hoax
Elf Bowl (ELFBOWL and FROGPULT hoaxes)
Elf Bowling Virus
ELFBOWL and FROGPULT hoaxes
ElfBowl hoax (ELFBOWL and FROGPULT hoaxes)
Email Bomb warning
E-mail from DeafSupport (DeafSupport e-mail hoax)
E-Mail Tracker chain letter (RH Power chain letter)
Email Tracking
Email Tracking
Email Tracking Software: RH Power Email Tracker (And Others)
End Times (Good Times)
Epilepsy: Will Your Forwarding an Email Save a Life?
ERICELL enginer hoax
Ericsson WAP Give-Away hoax
Evil The Cat virus
EXE.EIDE
EXE.EIDE hoax
Eyes
EYES.EXE
EYES.EXE false alarm (EYES.EXE)
Family Pictures hoax (New Pictures of Family hoax)
Famous People (Easter comics)
FatCat virus
FATE 3.0 warning
Fighting Canaries hoax
Fish (Frog and Fish warnings)
Flaming monitor virus
Flashing IM hoax
Fortune.exe Virus hoax (What’s Your Future hoax)
Francesca
Francesca chain letter (Francesca)
Free Computer Equipment hoax
Free Diet Coke hoax
Free Flights
Free Gap Clothes
Free Gap Clothes hoax (Free Gap Clothes)
Free Gift Card hoax (Navy Shopper hoax)
Free Money hoax (Derffle Virus hoax)
Free nokia giveaway hoax (Nokia phone promotion hoax)
Free Trip
Free Trip to Hawaii (Free Trip)
Frog and Fish warnings
Frog in Blender (Frog and Fish warnings)
Frog Pult (ELFBOWL and FROGPULT hoaxes)
FrogPult hoax (ELFBOWL and FROGPULT hoaxes)
Frozen IM hoax
Gamma2
Gang Initiations at the Gas Pumps
Gap Gift Certificates
Gas Out chain letter
Gas Prices and Gas Boycott
Gasoline Prices: Why Are They So High?
Get More Money
Get More Money hoax (Get More Money)
Ghost
Ghosts (Ghost)
GIF hoax (YUKON3U.MP hoax)
Girl Thing hoax
Good News (Good Times)
Good Times
Good Times hoax
Good Times virus
Got You
Grammar Bug
Grammar Bug 2
Graphic file virus
Hacker Riot
Hacker’s List chain letter
HackingBurgh
Hackingburgh
Hacky B-Day
Hacky Birthday virus
Hairy Palms Trojan
Hallmark Greeting Card hoax
Halloween attack (Terrorist attacks on malls hoax)
Halloween Greetings Post Card hoax
Happy New Year hoax (Lump Of Coal hoax)
Help a poor dog win a holiday virus
Hey You virus
HIV needles hoax
hoax)
Honda hoax
Honda Offers $1000
Hot to Deep Fry a Cat hoax (PBR virus hoax)
Hotmail Account hoax
How to Give a Cat a Colonic hoax
How to Give a Cat a Colonic virus
ICE hoax
IDNYSTE$$.FYI
IDNYSTE$$.FYI virus hoax (IDNYSTE$$.FYI)
I’M Your Shadow hoax
In Case of Emergency phone hoax (ICE hoax)
Independence hoax
Infected Bananas hoax
Inheritance fraud (Money Transfer hoax)
Inside Edition: The Special on the Epidemic of Abducted Women
Insuring Cigars?
Intel and AOL Class Action Suit hoax (Microsoft E-Mail Tracking System hoax)
Intel and AOL Merger hoax (Microsoft E-Mail Tracking System hoax)
Internet cleaning hoax
Internet Flower For You hoax
Internet Flower hoax
Is AOL Instant Messenger Shutting Down?
Is Hotmail Shutting Down?
Is the Kali Virus Real?
Is the Mirror on the Wall in a Public Bathroom Actually a Two Way Mirror?
It Takes Guts to Say Jesus (Jesus)
It takes guts to say ‘Jesus’ virus
It’s Like That hoax
Iwon.com chain letter (Don’t Delete Iwon.com chain letter)
Janet Reno: Are You a Cultist??
jdbgmgr.exe virus hoax
Jesus
Join the club
Join the Crew
Join the Crew virus
JPG hoax (YUKON3U.MP hoax)
Jungle Sex chain letter
Kali virus hoax (Wobbler virus hoax)
Kentucky Fried Chicken chain letter
KFC chain letter (Kentucky Fried Chicken chain letter)
Klingerman Virus
Klingerman Virus hoax
Let’s watch TV virus
Lets watch TV virus hoax (Wobbler virus hoax)
Life is beatiful hoax
Londhouse
Londhouse AltaVista virus
Londhouse hoax
Long File Name Backup utility virus hoax (Sulfnbk.exe virus hoax)
Lots of Jokes E-mail hoax (Warning Alert hoax)
Lottery
Lotus Notes virus hoax
Luck chain letter
Lump of Coal
Lump Of Coal hoax
Lump of Coal virus
M & Ms Chocolate Candies hoax
Macro Virus from Microsoft hoax
Make A Wish Foundation
Make Money Fast virus
Malicious joke home pages
Malls (Terrorist attacks on malls hoax)
Matra
McDonalds – Are There Really Hypodermic Needles in the Play Areas?
Meme
Meme hoax
Meme virus
Memphis.98.MMS virus
Microsft piracy letter
Microsoft
Microsoft and AOL E-mail Beta Test hoax (Microsoft E-Mail Tracking System hoax)
Microsoft AOL Email Beta Test
Microsoft E-Mail Tracking System hoax
Microsoft home page hoax (Microsoft)
Microsoft Homepage Virus hoax (Red Alert)
Microsoft piracy letter (Microsft piracy letter)
Microwave Oven and Water
MIME FORMAT
MIME FORMAT hoax
Missing Children: Can Forwarding an Email Help the Search?
Mobile Phone virus
Moment of Silence virus
Money Transfer hoax
MP3 Virus
MP3 virus
MSN hackers (Your screen name hoax)
MSN Hoax
My New Pics hoax
NastyFriend
NASTYFRIEND99 (NastyFriend)
National Banks
National Banks chain letter (National Banks)
NATO Virus hoax
NaughtyRobot hoax
NaughtyRobot spider
Navy Shopper hoax
NCSA (Easter comics)
Necrotizing Fasciitis Banana Infection hoax (Infected Bananas hoax)
Needles on the Underside of Gas Pumps?
Neiman-Marcus Cookie chain letter
Netscape and AOL Merger hoax (Microsoft E-Mail Tracking System hoax)
New Pictures of Family hoax
New Wheels hoax (Honda hoax)
Newell Company chain letter
Newell Email
NEWYORK BIG DIRT and THE FUCKER message hoax
NEWYORK BIG DIRT and THE FUCKER message hoax
Nigerian letter (Money Transfer hoax)
Night Kiss Greeting Card hoax
Nokia 3310 (Nokia cellphone radiation hoax)
Nokia cellphone radiation hoax
Nokia chain letter. (Win a Nokia hoax)
Nokia phone promotion hoax
Norton AntiVirus v5 alert
NPR: Will the Supreme Court Decision end the NEA?
Old Navy
Old Navy chain letter
Olympic Torch
Open: Very Cool
Open:Very Cool hoax (Open: Very Cool)
Pay-at-the-pump gas station incident hoax
Paypal scam
PBR virus hoax
Penal Greetings virus
Penpal Greetings
Penpal greetings
Penpal Greetings virus
Perfume hoax
Perfume Hoax?
Perrin.exe hoax
Petroleum Trust Fund hoax
Phantom Menace virus hoax
PIRATED VERSIONS DETECTED (Microsft piracy letter)
PK14 hoax
PKZ300
PKZIP300 (PKZ300)
PKZIP300 virus
Please Help Poor Dog (Poor Dog)
Pleeeeeeeese Read! message hoax (Lotus Notes virus hoax)
Poison perfume (Perfume hoax)
Poor Dog
Postal E-mail Charges hoax (Bill 602P hoax)
Preven and Walmart
Procter & Gamble and the Church of Satan hoax
Procter & Gamble hoax (Procter & Gamble and the Church of Satan hoax)
Product Warning
R-440 (Matra)
Rat Droppings
Red Alert
Red Alert virus
Returned (Unable to Deliver)
Returned/Unable to Deliver virus
RH Power chain letter
Riddle chain letter
Sally Jesse Raphael Show hoax (Procter & Gamble and the Church of Satan hoax)
Sandman
Sandman homepage warning (Sandman)
SARC Virus Test virus
Sassy
Save Little Girl chain letter (Cancer chain letter)
Scmpoo (Sheep)
Sheep
SHEEP.EXE
SHEEP.EXE warnings (SHEEP.EXE)
SIZON.AVI hoax (It’s Like That hoax)
SlaveMaster hoax
Sony Ericsson Free Phone
South Park clip chain letter (Clip chain letter)
Spell-Check (Grammar Bug)
Spunkball Warning
SpywareNo
Sulfnbk.exe virus hoax
Taco Bell Dog hoax
Teddy Bear hoax (jdbgmgr.exe virus hoax)
Teletubbies virus
Ten CDs hoax
Terrorist attacks on malls hoax
The Man Without a Face
The Millenium Riot hoax (AOL Riot 2 hoax)
Time Bomb virus
Topanga
Touched By An Angel hoax
Tracking Email That’s Forwarded
Trick to stop mass mailing viruses (!0000 trick)
Trojan-Spy:HTML/Bankfraud.RI
Turkey Mail
Turkey Mail warning (Turkey Mail)
Tuxissa virus
T-Virus Hoax
Twister hoax
Unable to Deliver
Upgrade Internet2 hoax (Perrin.exe hoax)
Valentine’s Greeting virus
Victoria Secret Gift Certificate
Victoria’s Secret chain letter (Victoria’s Secret Gift Certificate chain letter)
Victoria’s Secret Gift Certificate chain letter
Virtual Card for You hoax
Vote Against Hitler chain letter
Warning Alert hoax
We Are Watching You hoax (All Seeing Eye Virus hoax)
Welcome to the Matrix
What’s Your Future hoax
WIN A HOLIDAY hoax
Win a Holiday virus
Win a Nokia Cell Phone
Win a Nokia hoax
Wineyes (Eyes)
Wobbler virus
Wobbler virus hoax

Work Virus hoax
WTC Survivor hoax

WWZ.SIP screensaver hoax (NEWYORK BIG DIRT and THE FUCKER message
XALAN (Cell Phone hoax)
Y2K Computer Clock Bug Fix chain letter
Y2Kcount .exe Attachment: Microsoft Year 2000 Counter
Yahoo Help Desk hoax (Yahoo! Service Systems Overload hoax)
Yahoo! Service Systems Overload hoax
Yahoo! world domination virus
Your Friend D@fit hoax
Your screen name hoax
Yukon3U Trojan/virus
YUKON3U.mp
YUKON3U.MP hoax
Zlatko Virus hoax

Don’t open, save, or forward any attachments if you are in any way unsure of what that file contains.–even if it comes from someone you know and trust.

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