Tag: Hoax

Facebook ‘Powerball’ Scam Screws Woman out of $10K
Neither Facebook nor its CEO Mark Zuckerberg are ever going to give you money, unless you're a charity – then you might get a fat donation from Zuck. But for average, everyday peop...
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Kanye West Wasn’t Banned from the Grammys Damnit Stop Sharing These Hoax Articles
A disclaimer at the bottom of every page on the site Huzelrs.com reads: Huzlers.com is the most notorious urban satirical entertainment website with the most sho...
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Please Stop Falling for Facebook Porn Scams
Over the weekend, more than 110,000 people managed to infect themselves with malware by clicking on a Facebook link. That number is still climbing. How? “The trojan tags the...
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Facebook Is Finally Trying to Stop Those Dumb Hoaxes from Spreading
If the grand experiment that is social media has taught us one thing, it's that people have no shame. If it's taught us anything else, it's that people will fall for anything....
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Facebook Hoax Promises Hot Snapchat Photos, Delivers Only Fraud
If you're scrolling through your news feed and come across a pair of boobs and a promise of hot Snapchats, ignore your impulses and avoid. It's a scam. Specifically, you might s...
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Faceboozled: The Facebook Hoaxes That Duped Your Gullible Friends (and Likely Will Again)
"You can't believe everything that you read, and that goes double for stuff on Facebook." - Mark Zuckerberg* Recently, a very old and very stupid hoax made the rounds o...
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Ricky Martin Isn’t Dead, Just Chillin in #Heaven
Ricky Martin is alive and well, relaxing on the beach in #heaven. Martin is the latest victim of the ubiquitous celebrity death hoax, as the internet killed him off over the wee...
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Facebook Privacy Hoax Returns to Dupe the Highly Dupable
Don't be the guy who posts that completely useless privacy notice on Facebook ... again. Hey, better safe than sorry, right? Wrong. Just say no. A hoax as old as an...
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“Drunk Girl” Video Is A Viral Hoax, Completely Faked
“‘Drunk girl in public’ prank will make you lose faith in humanity” read the headlines of...
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Facebook Monthly Fee Hoax Resurfaces, Is Still Incredibly Stupid
"Facebook is a free site and will never require that you pay to continue using the site." You may not trust Facebook all of the time, but you should tr...
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Betty White Isn’t Dead, Just the Victim of a Bad Pun
Betty White, the 92-year-old comedienne and actress who seems to only get better with age, is fine. Despite what you may have heard on Twitter, White is not dead. But she is th...
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‘Facebook Drug Task Force’ Hoax Shows Desperate Need for More Satire Tags
Last week, Facebook began reminding idiots that The Onion, as well as arti...
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Orange Is The New Black Wasn’t Canceled, It’s Just a Dumb Hoax
Despite what you might have read over the weekend, the ladies of Litchfield will be back for a third season. Self-proclaimed "satirical and entertainment website" Empire News pu...
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KFC Scarred Little Girl Was A Hoax
The story of a badly disfigured little girl, who was asked to leave a Mississippi KFC restaurant, may have been a complete hoax. According to the...
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Ryan Gosling Hoax Fools Millions Of Facebook Users
Nearly one million Facebook users were duped over the weekend when a fake post allegedly from Ryan Gosling started circulating on the Internet. The post came from a page delibe...
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