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Top 10 Dumbest Hoaxes People Believed To Be True
To trick the media, crowds, and even the government, you need patience, planning, and more than a little brain power. But when everything comes together into one big victimless laugh, it’s a thing of beauty. Here are ten of the dumbest hoaxes people fell for.
10. Blair Witch Project
Everyone were perplexed and believed that the Blair Witch Project is a true documentary. Is Blair Witch Project true? was a question that ran in it’s viewers mind. The convincing video quality, direction and storyline is the culprit. But it is just a movie with a fake story.
9. Nigerian scam
A ‘Nigerian’ scam is a form of upfront payment or money transfer scam. They are called Nigerian scams because the first wave of them came from Nigeria, but they can come from anywhere in the world. The ‘4-1-9’ part of the name comes from the section of Nigeria’s Criminal Code which outlaws the practice.
The scammers usually contact you by email or letter and offer you a share in a large sum of money that they want to transfer out of their country. They may tell you about money trapped in central banks during civil wars or coups, often in countries currently in the news. Or they may tell you about massive inheritances that are difficult to access because of government restrictions or taxes in the scammer’s country.
8. Bill Gates Donations
Bill Gates sure does have a lot of money and donates alot through Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, A fake email has been doing rounds on the Internet since 1997. It claims it is a beta test of a email tracking programme and pays you for every forward you make to your friends. This is one of the most popular hoax
7. Free Energy
Back in 2006, an Irish firm claimed that it discovered a way to create energy from nothing, A.K.A Free Energy. Clean, Continuous energy that would cause a global revolution. Although it is clear it violated laws of nature and physics, it still created lot of hype. Later it failed in a demonstration and the owner started to whine that it was due to Global Warming.
6. The Surgeon’s Photo of the Loch Ness Monster
Ancient Scottish legends spoke of a giant sea monster that lived in the waters of Loch Ness. In 1934, Colonel Robert Wilson, a highly respectable British surgeon, said that he noticed something moving in the water and took a picture of it. The resulting image showed the slender neck of a serpent rising out of the Loch. The photo came to be known simply as “The Surgeon’s Photo” and for decades it was considered to be the best evidence of the monster.
It wasn’t until 1994, when Christian Spurling, before his death at the age of 90, confessed his involvement in a plot, that included Wetherell and Colonel Wilson, to create the famous photo. Apparently Wetherell’s motive was revenge, since he was humiliated years earlier when the supposed monster’s footprints he found were nothing but dried hippo’s footsteps.
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