Soulja Boy is not dead. You can rest easy, Twitterverse. That doesn’t make the hoax any less funny though. Somewhere, somehow, on the Internet today, #RIPSouljaBoy began trending. People were obviously concerned for the rapper’s well being. Well, some people …

Some Facebook hoaxes are spun up by people trying to get money, web traffic, etc. from users. Those we understand. They fall more under the heading of “scams”. But, there are some that purport to be kind-hearted warnings or warm-hearted …

Just in case anyone is truly concerned that Cher was, “found dead in Malibu home”, she was not. Apparently she is just one in a long list of victims who have fallen prey to a fake deaths on Twitter. This …

Gary Glitter is not back and probably won’t be any time soon. Last week, eyebrows were raised at the return of infamous glam rocker Gary Glitter. He used the twitter handle #OfficialGlitter to announce a comeback tour and autobiography. It …

Last week, I wrote about a message on Facebook that was being shared around heavily. In my write-up, I walked through this character string, eliminated the extraneous characters, and posited a theory about what it might be. In short, this …

An interesting little hoax is making the rounds on Facebook this morning. According to the viral message, every phone (some versions say SIM card) has a unique name. And, if you enter a particular phrase in a Facebook comment, you …

Well, I guess this is one way to cure your writer’s block. It turns out that the person behind the “Gay Girl in Damascus” blog is actually an aspiring fiction writer from Georgia. And by Georgia I mean the state. …

The raconteur behind the Marry Our Daughter website has come clean, after traveling the country and battling with radio hosts and their frothing listeners.

Has an Italian blog stumbled across the first images of the much-discussed Google OS or are they showing the work of someone else’s Photoshop skills…?

The monthly review of viruses and hoaxes by security software firm Sophos also shows numerous Mytob variants in the virus list.

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In what could be an elaborate hoax, Google has announced they are launching GMail, a free email service. Boasting a storage amount of 1 gigabyte per user, Google’s goal is to give enough storage so that users won’t have to dispose of any emails.

In response to the buzz surrounding its GMail launch, Google’s founders have said that GMail is NOT a hoax.