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Internet Hoaxes

The Internet is a fast and convenient way of sending and obtaining information, but it’s also an easy way to spread misinformation. New hoaxes pop up almost everyday from shocking celebrity deaths to mystery objects in foods. Here are three examples of Internet hoaxes.

Pay what you weigh On April 1, 2011, New Zealand Air began advertising a one-day fare sale–pay what you weigh. The airline’s website offered visitors a chance to pay a dollar amount that was equal to their weight in kilograms. The idea was “more weight = more fuel = more cost” and many people believed it. The promotion brought visitors to the company’s website and became a popular news story. A In the end, the promotion turned out to be an April Fool’s joke.

Hoaxes pt 2

Croc on the loose While the streets of New Orleans were still flooded after a terrible hurricane, a frightening e-mail was sent around the Internet. It included a photograph of an immense crocodile over five meters long. The message said it had been swimming around the flooded city eating people. B It was later discovered that the photographs of the crocodile were of one from the Congo.

The following e-mail hoax has fooled many people. The sender claims that a large company will pay you to send their e-mail to as many people as possible. For every person that you send the e-mail to, the company promises you will receive $5; for every person that person sends it to, you’ll get $3; and for every third person those people send it to, you will be paid $1. C To make the lie even more believable, the sender thought it was a hoax, but the company soon sent him $800.