At the end of the message, Detective Bledsoe of the Florissant, Mo. Louis County and urge motorists to take precautions, particularly around the holidays.
It also gives an address and a telephone number for more information. Urban legends — those weird stories that seem to take on lives of their own as they travel from person to person — have likely been around for centuries. But in the past decade, the Internet has added a new, more encompassing dimension to the spread of false rumors.
Five of the most highly e-mailed urban legends. All have been proved false by Snopes. Status: This is a version of an Internet hoax that has been around since Periodically, the name of the companies or the amount of the reward changes. Claim: A plea to help find 9-year-old Penny Brown who has been missing for two weeks. Status: The e-mail, which includes a picture of a smiling little girl, has been circulated since Claim: A woman was robbed at a Wal-Mart store in Garland, Texas, by a thief who injected her with an unknown substance that left her clinging to life.
Status : Police said no such attack occurred. According to news reports, the author of the e-mail said a friend told him the tale and he believed he was doing a good deed by spreading the story online. Status : On the Swiffer WetJet Web site, the company explains that the mop contains no antifreeze as reported in the e-mail, and that the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, veterinarians and scientists confirm that it is safe for pets.
Status: Tiger Woods does not own this property. The pictures are of a rental estate in Hawaii. For every one of the individuals that you sent it to and forwards it on. Microsoft will reach out to you requesting your contact information your address and then send you a check. My thoughts were this a scam however; two weeks after receiving this same e-mail.
I forwarded it to family, Colleagues and freinds. You need to respond before the beta testing is over. If anyone can afford this, Bill gates is the man that can. Helen Young from Galena, Mo. Wilfred Briesemeister from Carlsbad. Sending someone a Snopes link is the digital equivalent of calling BS. To make Snopes even better, its authors the Mikkelsons actually reply to their email.
Being good journalists, they had actually cited their own sources -- but I couldn't find those source articles through my local library system. So I went ahead and emailed the site owners asking if they had tips on finding the articles.
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