Read the Hoax and Urban Legends Sites or ELSE!!!

  PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PUNISHED Since 12/4/1998 AND SENT TO THIS SITE FOR FAILING TO HEED WARNINGS AGAINST HOAXES AND SPAM!

IGNORANCE IS NOT AN EXCUSE.  Every user of the Internet should be familiar with the typical hoaxes.  In general, anything sent to you with the instructions to forward to as many people as possible is a hoax.

Go to the VIRUS MYTHS SITE, www.vmyths.com or URBAN LEGENDS SITE at http://urbanlegends.about.com/culture/urbanlegends/

and specifically the CURRENT INTERNET HOAXES section at http://urbanlegends.about.com/culture/urbanlegends/library/blhoax.htm

If someone sends you an easily debunkable hoax or rumor, give them this page.  They'll never do it again!

THE BOULDER PLEDGE

The Boulder Pledge is a simple part of the solution to the spam problem, devised by Roger Ebert (the "Thumbs up!" guy) at the Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado. (He announced this pledge in his column in Yahoo! Internet Life's December 1996 issue.)

The Boulder Pledge: "Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited email message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community."

For details about virus hoaxes: http://kumite.com/myths/home.htm
Famous and persistant virus hoaxes:

  • 3b Trojan (alias PKZIP Virus)
  • AOL4Free Virus Hoax
  • AOL Year 2000 Update Hoax
  • Baby New Year Virus Hoax
  • Bad Times Hoax
  • Blue Mountain Virus Hoax
  • BUDDYLST.ZIP
  • BUDSAVER.EXE
  • Budweiser Hoax
  • BUGGLST Hoax
  • Dear Friends Hoax
  • Death69
  • Deeyenda
  • E-Flu
  • FatCat Virus Hoax
  • Free Money
  • Get More Money Hoax
  • Ghost
  • Good Times
  • Guts to Say Jesus Hoax
  • Hacky Birthday Virus Hoax
  • Hairy Palms Virus Hoax
  • Irina
  • Join the Crew
  • Londhouse Virus Hoax
  • Microsoft Virus Hoax
  • Millennium Time Bomb
  • Norton anti - virus v5 Hoax
  • Pandemic Hoax
  • Penpal Greetings
  • Red Alert
  • Returned or Unable to Deliver
  • Teletubbies
  • Time Bomb
  • Tuxissa Hoax
  • Undeliverable Mail
  • Valentine's Greetings
  • Very Cool
  • Win a Holiday
  • World Domination Hoax
  • Wooden Horse Hoax
  • Yellow Teletubbies

If you still think you should be able to "innocently" forward warnings and put the burden of deleting your message on the recipient or if you really don't think reading the Urban Legends site, recommended above, is worthwhile, please click here.