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Thousands of dissected hoaxes in Indonesian and English: the claim, what the fact-checkers found, and the sources to verify it yourself.
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Rockstar Energy Drink Car Decal Wrapping Money Laundering Scam
This story was first published on December 19, 2013
Hoax-Slayer · English · Apr 15, 2017
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‘Engr. Goren Needs Your Help’ Advance Fee Scam
Scammers use many methods to reach potential victims including email, text messages, and social media posts. In the case described here, “Engineer Goren” sent the following message after a user accepted his friend request on a social media website.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Mar 20, 2019
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Run A Website? Don’t Get Caught by ‘Domain Registration SEO’ Spam Emails
If you own and manage websites and domain names, then you’ve likely received spam messages like this. Subject: [Your domain} expiration You have 1 domain name seo registration service pending.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Apr 13, 2017
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‘A Proposal in Good Faith’ Advance Fee Scam Email
This email, which purports to be from “Ulrich”, a regional manager at a European bank, offers you a 40% share in a multi-million dollar fund.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Nov 8, 2018
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Domain Name Application Scam
The claims in the messages are lies designed to trick website owners into unnecessarily registering a series of domain names at inflated prices. If you receive one of these scam emails, do not reply or follow any links that the email may contain.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Nov 30, 2016
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Beware of Bogus Amazon Job Offers Asking For Upfront Payments
Online scammers are exploiting jobseekers by offering seemingly well-paid work-from-home jobs with Internet giant Amazon. The Better Business Bureau in the US notes that reports about this type of scam have been steadily increasing in recent months.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Oct 4, 2018
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No, The “Owner of Audi”; is NOT Going to Give You A Car For Liking and Sharing
The Facebook Page is fake. It is certainly not giving away any cars, and Kevin M James is certainly not the “owner of AUDI”. Those who participate by liking, sharing, and commenting have no chance whatsoever of winning anything at all.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Feb 22, 2017
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‘I am the Hacker who Cracked your Email’ Fake Blackmail Sextortion Scam
This message claims to be from a hacker who cracked your email and device a few months back. Supposedly, the hacker created screenshots of you while you were “having fun on web-sites of personal content” (porn sites) and also installed malware that harvested…
Hoax-Slayer · English · Nov 18, 2018
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Watch Out For ‘Luxury RV’ Giveaway Scams on Facebook
The Facebook Pages are fraudulent. They are not giving away RVs as claimed. There are no prizes and no winners. The bogus Pages are scams designed to rapidly accumulate large numbers of Page likes.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Jul 5, 2016
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Fake ‘Fast and Furious’ Giveaway Posts Targeting Facebook Users
According to various posts from a Facebook Page called “Fast and Furious 8,9,10”, you can win cars and large cash prizes just by liking, sharing, and commenting and then clicking a link to register your prize entry and download movies.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Sep 4, 2018
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Japanese Sheep for Poodles Hoax
A bogus story about a sheep for poodle substitution scam in Japan has effectively pulled the wool over the eyes of many Western news outlets.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Mar 10, 2017
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Overseas Artist Job Offer Scam
According to this email, an artist based in Sweden is facing difficulties processing foreign cheques and money orders submitted by overseas buyers of his works.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Mar 2, 2017
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Fake Will Smith Facebook Pages Offering Cash and Prizes as Bait
Various posts circulating on Facebook are claiming that famous American actor Will Smith is giving away millions of dollars in cash and prizes to his Facebook followers.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Jul 16, 2018
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No, Amazon is NOT Giving Everyone a Free $100 Coupon
According to a post that is currently being shared on Facebook, Internet giant Amazon is giving away a free $100 coupon to EVERYONE as a means of celebrating its anniversary.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Apr 22, 2017
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Urban Legend – Car-Jacking Scheme Warning – Paper on Rear Window
The car-jacking scheme outlined in the email is not implausible. However, extensive searches of news, police department and motoring organization websites around the world have offered no confirmation that the car-jacking scheme described is actually…
Hoax-Slayer · English · Aug 15, 2018
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Quick Facebook Security Tip – Hide Your Friends List
In another Hoax-Slayer report, I discuss Facebook cloning in some detail and outline tips you can implement to help protect yourself from this type of scam.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Feb 5, 2017
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Dear Facebook, I Have a Question……
This story was first published on August 26, 2015 In what universe is it NOT a violation of any decent set of ‘community standards’ to steal a picture of a sick baby and use it just to gather social media likes?
Hoax-Slayer · English · Oct 18, 2017
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Watch For Bogus Facebook Posts Offering Center Parcs Holiday Prizes
According to a post being shared across Facebook, you can comment and share for the chance to win a holiday for 4 people from holiday company Center Parcs. The post purports to be from a person called “Mark Frendon” who claims to be the CEO of Center Parcs.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Nov 26, 2018
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Dollar General is NOT Giving Facebook Users Free $150 Coupons
According to a post that is currently circulating on Facebook, American variety store chain Dollar General is providing each family with a free $150 coupon as a means of celebrating the company’s 135 years of service.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Jul 22, 2018
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LIKE-FARMING – ‘Mercedes Benz CLA 45’ Facebook Giveaway
The Page is bogus and the competitions that it promotes are not legitimate. There are no winners and no cars are being given away. This is a like-farming scam designed to fraudulently increase the number of likes garnered by the Page.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Jul 21, 2014
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