The “Good Worm” Designed To Help Computers Is Actually a Potentially Destructive Virus-Truth! Summary of eRumor: This warning is about a “worm” program called Win32.All3gro.A that is being passed among email users. The worm represents itself as a “good worm” that will detect and remove certain viruses from your computer. According to a Reuters article, …
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Evil Faces in Pictures From the Destruction of the World Trade Center-Not a Hoax! Summary of eRumor: A couple of pictures are circulating on the Internet from the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, that seem to have evil-looking faces in the smoke. Faces of Satan? The Truth: We have …
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Forward An Email for Disney and Microsoft and Win a Chance For Money or Travel-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: This eRumor claims that Disney and Microsoft are beta-testing an email tracking system and if you forward it to others, you may win either $5,000 or a trip to Disneyworld. Some versions say the trip will be …
Disney and Microsoft will pay you for forwarding an email about them-Fiction! Read More »
The Cab Driver and the Terminally ILL Passenger–Truth! Summary of eRumor: This is a touching story about a conscientious cab driver who discovered that his fare was a woman who was leaving her small apartment for the last time and going to a hospice to die. The Truth: We’ve received a lot of emails …
The Cab Driver who was kind to a terminally ill passenger-Unproven! Read More »
Guns That Look Like Cell Phones-Truth! Summary of eRumor: There are new guns that look like cell phones. The Truth: Guns that look like cell phones are real, but they’re not new. The most recent warnings about cell phones made to look like guns surfaced in February 2016. It started with a Facebook post by …
Forwarded Emails Will Pay For The Heart Surgery of a Boy in Buenos Aires –Fiction! Summary of eRumor: A little boy named Brian in Buenos Aires has a failing heart muscle. An Internet service provider has offered to pay one cent per email that is forwarded with the subject “SOLIDARIDAD CON>>>BRIAN” to pay for Brian’s …
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A woman is discovered sitting in her car in a grocery store parking lot with her hands held behind her head. A customer asks the woman if she’s okay. She says that she’s been shot in the back of the head and has been sitting there for more than an hour holding her hands over the wound to keep her brains from falling out. Paramedics are called and they discover that what she thought was her brain is actually a huge wad of bread dough. They finally figure out that when she got into the driver’s seat, a Pillsbury Biscuit can exploded from the groceries she had placed in the back seat and between the sound of the explosion and the sensation of something hitting her head, she thought she had been shot and also thought the dough was her brains falling out.
Neil Armstrong Wishing A “Mr. Gorsky” Good Luck from the Moon-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, is quoted as saying, “Good luck, Mr. Gorsky” during his first lunar walk in 1969 on the Apollo 11 mission. Years later, Mr. Armstrong says that now that Mr. Gorsky …
Neil Armstrong wished "Mr. Gorsky" luck from the moon-Fiction! Read More »
George Carlin or Ted Nugent’s article on “A Bad American”-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: This is a widely-circulated piece of social and political commentary, said to have been written by comedian George Carlin. Other versions say it has been written by musician Ted Nugent. (The full text is below) The Truth: TruthOrFiction.com has found this attributed …
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The Effort by “Citizens Against Breast feeding” to Ban Nursing in The U.S.-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: The message says an organization called CITIZENS AGAINST BREAST-FEEDING has collected more than 200,000 signatures on a petition calling for the criminalization of breast feeding. The group has a website at www.banbreastfeeding.com. The Truth: The website is …
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