Posts Tagged Hoax

Hello, I am Justina! I Went Through Your Profile : Spam Email

Recently I started getting a lot of such email spam messages in Gmail and Gmail for Google Apps, which are not caught by the spam filter of Gmail. The email seems very personal, friendly and genuine. So people tend to reply to that email and then possibly get caught in troubles. So, beware of email spammers!
Here is the copy of th email I received: Read full story »

Hoax: UNESCO Announces Indian National Anthem as the Best National Anthem in the World

There are email forwards flooding around which claims that UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has chosen the Indian National Anthem (Jana Gana Mana) as the best national anthem in the world.

This is a hoax email. If this was a real news, there is no doubt that, media in India would have given … Read full story »

Charge Mobile Phone battery with Peepal/Banyan Leaves – Fact or Hoax?

You can charge your mobile phone battery using Peepal tree or Banyan tree leaves! Wow! Sounds interesting, isn’t it? This news was featured in Central Chronicle news paper also, in July 2007. Here is an analysis of this story.
While I don’t believe that a battery can be charged fully, some chemicals present … Read full story »

"Outrage in South Africa" – Hoax Chain Email

A few hours ago, I received the following (chain) mail, send by a reputed kind hearted business man. The below chain email, first seen in 2001, is now picked up speed recently.
Outrage in South Africa
Last week a 3 year old girl in South Africa was beaten and raped. She is still alive. The … Read full story »

Orkut Buyukkokten & Email Hoax on Orkut Account Getting Deleted

Today I received the following message in orkut from one of my friend.

Dear user because of sudden rush of people signing upto orkut is come
to an attention that we are vastly running our of resources so with in a week
any one who does not receive this scrap will be deleted of our server . We … Read full story »