Abel Raises Cain www.abelraisescain.com Slamdance Film Festival www.slamdance.com/2005/festival/film_detail.asp?film_id=594 Fox News Wednesday, April 19, 2006 "$365M Powerball Winner to Come Forward Wednesday" Associated Press http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,185611,00.html Below Find Hoax Resource Websites You might consider adding this page to your list of "Favorites" and then use the links below to check the validity of those e-mails we all get, asking us to blindly pass them on "to everyone we know." Although they usually look impressive, you will be surprised to learn how many of those e-mails contain information and quotes that are somewhere between "not totally correct" and "totally incorrect." Exposing Hoaxes & Urban Legends Because they are a leader when it comes to shedding light on various schemes and scams, a visit to the snopes.com website is a must. http://snopes.com You can use the snoops.com search engine below http://www.snopes.com/info/search/search.asp Museum of Hoaxes Another website that is a "Must Visit" for anyone interested in hoaxes... Museum of Hoaxes. This resource is used by serious researchers. http://www.museumofhoaxes.com Hoax & Prank Information In addition to general information, wikipedia.org has quite a bit of information on Hoaxes and Pranks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia List of Pranksters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pranksters "Pranks and hoaxes and delusions and frauds... ...remind us that we are easily fooled and that we aren’t nearly as smart as we sometimes think we are." http://www.sniggle.net Truth or Fiction - A Useful Resource Check out rumors, inspirational stories, virus warnings, humorous tales, pleas for help, urban legends, prayer requests and calls to action, to see if they are TRUTH! or FICTION! http://www.truthorfiction.com/ A Resource From about.com This is another guide to Urban Legends and Folklore http://urbanlegends.about.com/ Scambusters Helps You Protect Yourself From Clever Scams -- Online and Offline... http://www.scambusters.org/ April Fools R Us April Fools R Us is yet another useful resource http://www.april-fools.us/top-pranksters.htm Hoax Busters A list of Internet Hoaxes http://hoaxbusters.org/ Hoax Slayer Newsletter Informational newsletter containing information on Email Hoaxes and Internet Scams http://www.hoax-slayer.com/ Ripp-Off Report Have you been the victim of a consumer rip-off? http://www.ripoffreport.com/ Get The Straight Dope "Fighting ignorance since 1973" http://www.straightdope.com/ James Randi An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and supernatural http://www.randi.org/encyclopedia/ Cliff Pickover's Internet Encyclopedia of Hoaxes Hoaxes perpetuated in the name of science come in various flavors. There is the April's fool joke or urban legend in which someone tells a funny tale about alligators living in sewers. On the other hand, a more serious hoax can destroy an entire line of scholarship or provide an ineffective medical "cure" until the deceit comes to light. http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/hoax.html PCWORLD.COM Picks Their Top 25 Web Hoaxes http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070503/tc_pcworld/131340 ZUG "The world's only comedy site" http://www.zug.com/ Joey Skaggs Skaggs is a notorious socio-political satirist, media activist, culture jammer, hoaxer, and dedicated proponent of independent thinking and media literacy. http://www.joeyskaggs.com/ Hoaxes Over the Years An article from the San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/05/29/ING5TCTIKI46.DTL A couple clever Internet websites The 3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference http://j-walk.com/other/conf/index.htm Affordable In-Home LASIK Surgery You Can Do Yourself!™ You say you're not all that handy with tools? You can do this! http://www.lasikathome.com Auto dealer offers optional add-on feature for emergencies. It's called: "The Trunk Monkey." This one is listed because it's just plain funny. *(Allow time to load) http://www.trunkmonkeyad.com/ The Onion "America's Finest News Source" http://www.theonion.com/content/index The Spoof "Satire and parody newspapers on the Internet" http://www.thespoof.com/ The FARK News http://www.fark.com/ Medicine Shows While the old Medicine Shows fall loosely into the "Hoax" category, they were actually more of a "Con." Regardless, Medicine Shows do fit very well into the IAPH "Interesting Links" category. You need "Real Player" or "Quick Time Player" to view this streaming video. Ron Dentinger, IAPH http://www.folkstreams.net/film,68 Pyramid Schemes As with "Medicine Shows" (above) Multi-level Marketing Schemes, aka: Pyramid Schemes, are more of a con than a hoax or a prank, but they do fit very well into the IAPH "Interesting Links" category because, ironically, it is not just the customer that is being conned. People at nearly every level of the pyramid are also being conned. "Going Great White" is a very funny independent film in the style of "Best In Show." It is a mock-umentary of the MLM Pyramid concept. http://www.goinggreatwhite.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rASERt_wqPg If you ever wonder, "How Do They Do That?" Ever get an e-mail that involves a Mind Reading trick of some kind, and you don't have a clue how it's done? "Puzzle Help" at puzzles.com may be able to help you find out. http://www.puzzles.com/ ...and if you're just plain bored. http://www.bored.com/ (Watch for additional links) |