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10 Greatest Internet Hoaxes of All Time
Have you ever been a victim of internet hoaxes? Here is my list of 10 Greatest Internet Hoaxes of All Time. Let me know if I missed something.
1. Aliens in our midst…
A number of bizarre circles started to appear in English wheat fields in 1991, leading many people to speculate UFO and ET landings. People believed this hoax for 20 years until two pranksters (Doug Bower and David Chorley) came forward and revealed that they were behind the prank. So what we thought was a alien ship turned out to be an average rope planks and wire. The pair started the tomfoolery in the 1970s to prank locals who believed in the existance UFOs. But despite the hoaxers outing themselves, some people won’t give up their theories.
2. I want some orange juice
The above ad reads, “I’ll give you $2 + cost if you’ll deliver me some orange juice with receipt. I’m too lazy to get it myself. I live right by University Drive in Elon. Thank you.” If you ever thought of replying to these ads, you would more than probably get the following: 1) “No Reply”; 2) A person is not serious and will lead you down a path of more pranks. Avoid it by all means! Don’t even try replying.
3. The spaghetti garden… just the way god intended it to be
The spaghetti-tree hoax was a three-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools’ Day in 1957 by the BBC current-affairs programme Panorama. The hoax showed a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the family’s “spaghetti tree”. At the time spaghetti was relatively little-known in the UK, so that many Britons were unaware that spaghetti is created using wheat flour and water; a number of viewers afterwards contacted the BBC for advice on how to grow Spaghetti.
3. Bill Gates is giving away his money. .. Sure he is… and the queen is adopting me
“Bill Gates is giving away money!” This banner began circulating the net and even managed to gather some witness for authenticity…but as much as we want to place our faith in the all-so-generous Mr. Gates, we all know this isn’t happening ever. If you want to know if Bill Gates is behind something, just go on Reddit and ask him. Don’t fall for any pranks and scams.
4. YouTube Closing Down
On April 1, 2013, Google, via ” Tim Liston — a person who appears to be as fictional as his title, announced that YouTube will go dark for a decade to give thousands of judges 10 years to go through all the uploaded videos and declare one winner, which will be the only video on the site when YouTube will relaunch in 2023. That turned out to be an April Fools joke. That didn’t stop people from arguing otherwise, especially with the shutdown of Google Readers a few months earlier.
5. Free trip to Disney, courtesy of Walt Disney jr
Send this email to 13000 people and the lucky few will be awarded with a cash price and the rest will be given a free trip to Disney. So the Disney jr part was a dead giveaway that this was a hoax. This email basically claimed to possess magical powers and as a time honored tradition people bought it.
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