Don’t Respond to an E-Card Sent From “friendlygreetings.com”–Truth! Summary of eRumor: A warning is circulating on the Internet about a “virus-like” program that says a friend has sent you an e-card, but if you respond to it, all the addresses in your Outlook address book will be sent to the greeting card company. The …
The "friendlygreetings" e-card that acts like a virus-Truth! Read More »
Gift Certificate from Applebees Restaurants for Forwarding an Email to Your Friends-Fiction! Summary of the eRumor: This message claims to come from the founder of Applebees’ restaurants. It says that they want to get the word out to people in rural areas and if you’ll forward the email to 9 other people, you’ll get a …
Applebees restaurants gift certificates for forwarding an email for them-Fiction! Read More »
A virus warning about “A Virtual Card for You” or “Postcard” virus and hoax
In baskets are being flooded with notifications from the instant messaging service WhatsApp that there is a voice message waiting.
This is a very official looking email that appears as though it came from UPS saying that your invoice is ready.
Warnings issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have gone viral on the Internet and Social Media that warn computer users of vulnerabilities in the latest version of Java that could open their computers to attacks from hackers.
The Affordable Care Act mandates that everyone in the U.S. gets health insurance. Because of this there has been an influx of various companies advertising a variety of insurance policies by eMail. Some are fake and could direct computers users to a site that will infect their systems with a virus.
Very official emails allegedly from the accounting software company Intuit that contain a link encouraging the readers to click.
Ericsson is Giving Away Free Laptops for Forwarded Emails-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: An Internet giveaway message. It encourages you to forward the email to 8 people and within 2 weeks Ericsson will send you a free Ericsson T18. If you send it to 20 people you’ll receive a free Ericsson R320. The message says Ericsson …
A warning about an email that appears to be from an airline and offering information about an e-ticket.
