[PCWorld]

Post your comments for The Top 25 Web Hoaxes and Pranks here

[tedk]

How could you leave off the Bonsai Kitten prank by MIT?? That should be one of the top 5 internet pranks!!!! This should be added, come on PC World!!!!! Get on the ball!!!!

[Jakew]

The original Tourist Guy hoax may not have been amusing--but the spinoffs placing him on the Titanic, at the Hindendburg crash, etc., sure were:http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blphoto-wtc-g1.htm

[c128user]

What about the $350 SPAM recipe?Not long after I first saw the $250 cookie recipe (which supposively was a Neiman-marcus cookie) I received an email about someone going on a tour of a midwest meat packing plant and the recipe that cost $350 instead of $3.50. The recipe was supposed to be for SPAM (the luncheon meat) and was itself a hoax because it contained several non-edible items. I printed it out but it was lost in a move, back in the days when I was able to use a Commodore 64 to go onto the Internet (with an ISP that allowed text access since graphic web access hadn't been developed yet).

[mikeligalig]

I just told the NIgerian scammers that my brother or uncle works with the CIA or with the FBI and that I have forwarded this e-mai, that e-maill to the CIA or to the FBI so the agency could help him or her solve him or her dilemma. Sometimes I would correspond with them until they became impatient waiting for my also fictitious money to be deposited in their accounts. They have thousands of strategies how to dupe unsuspecting Internet users, so we should also encounter them with thousands of promises that the money is now ready to be deposited in their fictitious accounts. What offends me is that they would use the name of God or the Lord Jesus Christ as their back-up, calling you brother or sister, borrowing heartrending words in order to bleed your instinctive compassion. In the end, what you don't know will cost you. Knowledge is power. Knowledge is wealth. People perish for lack of knowledge, the Bible says.

[CeCe813]

I just wanted to post a note about these, since I receive many. I did contact the US Secret Service and they said I could send the the info via regular mail but NOT to send it to them by e-mail because some of these requests have tracking ability. They also said to delete them immediately because you may not know for some time whether some info on your machine has been compromised. Unfortunately these people prove very diifuclt to catch up with as they tend to move on quickly to a new address/IP, but it's worth sending the information on.:unsure

[librarylady]

The kidney harvesting flick was already done by Monty Python.

[rico001]

Have you found Penny Brown?

[Sonicspeed]

Aww man how can you forget the Google tISP internet from a toilet lol

[JeanInMontana]

www.hoax-slayer.com is a great place for checking "stuff" out. Plus there are forums to ask questions, post phishing and Nigerian scams.

[trav1085]

In the book Virus Proof, he [the author] features a screenshot of the original message on a website. I took a picture of it from my book:http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j183/trav1085/Screenshots/virusproofkidney_harvest.jpg

[oconnmic]

Waldorf-Astoria red-velvet cake recipe is no hoax. My grandmother, who wrote for the Christian Science Monitor newspaper in the 1960's, complemented the chef personally on the cake and asked for and received the recipe. She was so incensed when she later received an unexpected bill she published the recipe for the cake in the Monitor. I don't remember how much they charged her but you don't mess with my Grandma, may she rest in peace!

[Captwoods1]

[quote name='tedk']How could you leave off the Bonsai Kitten prank by MIT?? That should be one of the top 5 internet pranks!!!! This should be added, come on PC World!!!!! Get on the ball!!!!Now that was funny! lol What about the e-mail that was circulating around back in 2003/4 that Target was owned by the French so all Americans should boycott it.

[XtianH]

Oh man, how could you leave off Smithsonian Barbie? It's hilarious... "C. Clams don't have teeth." ...classic!

[pary]

I received that Taarget boycott email - that was hilarious.

thanks for the info.
regcure