Beware of Crooks Disabling ATM Machines to Get Your Card–Truth! Summary of eRumor: There is more than one version of this being circulated. One is in narrative form from a person who said she was scammed at an ATM machine. She was trying to use the machine, but got a message that it was …
Beware of crooks who use a technique to get your ATM card-Truth! Read More »
Email Petition To The President Sponsored By Mothers Against Drunk Driving-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: This email says it is part of an effort by MADD to get 5,000 signatures to the President of the United States. It then includes an emotional poem written from the perspective of a young person writing to …
MADD-sponsored email petition for the president of the U.S.-Fiction! Read More »
Eighteen Year Old Jeff Has Cancer, Forwarded Emails Will Help Pay His Expenses-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: Jeff deLeon has lung cancer from second hand smoke as well as a tumor from being beaten. The doctors say he’ll die without medical care, but his family can’t pay for it, so Make A Wish foundation will …
Eighteen Year Old Jeff has cancer, forwarded emails will help pay his expenses-Fiction! Read More »
Five-year-old Jessica Koopmans is Missing in Canada-Once Truth!–Now Resolved Summary of eRumor: Little Jessica Koopans is missing after having been taken from her front yard in North Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. The Truth: This email got started shortly after Jessica disappeared on May 4, 2001. Six days later, her body was found about an hour away …
5-year-old Jessica Koopmans is missing in Canada-Once Truth! Now Resolved! Read More »
The Stunning Picture of an Iceberg From an Oil Drilling Manager Off Newfoundland–Fiction! Summary of eRumor: A photo of an iceberg, showing the portions both above and below the water, is circulated with an explanation of where it came from. According to the eRumor, the photo was taken by a drilling rig manager for Global …
U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno Identifies Christians as Cultists-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: It is said that Attorney General Janet Reno appeared on “60 Minutes” on the CBS television network on June 26, 1999, and described some of the common characteristics of cultists. Her description, however, was the exact profile of many committed Christians. …
U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno identifies Christians as cultists-Fiction! Read More »
Al Gore’s Horse-Thief Ancestor–Fiction! Summary of eRumor: This email claims that Tipper Gore, the wife of former Senator and presidential candidate Al Gore, is into genealogy and discovered a great-great uncle in the Gore family who was hanged as a horse thief and train robber. When the president’s image-makers were finished with the story, …
Al Gore Calls Christians a “Blight to the Environment”-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: The email contains a quote said to be from Al Gore’s Book “Earth in Balance.” The quote says Christians refuse to accept the earth as our “sacred mother” and are a dangerous threat to the survival of humanity. Gore is also quoted as …
Al Gore calls Christians a "blight to the environment"-Fiction! Read More »
The Danger of Green Grass Snakes–Fiction! Summary of eRumor: This is a long narrative of a couple in Sweetwater, Texas who had a string of misfortunes because of an otherwise harmless green grass snake. See the full version below. The Truth: This eRumor has been making the rounds on the Internet for a long …
A long-standing urban legend found new life thanks to chat show host Graham Norton.
