Top 25 Web Hoaxes and Pranks

Top 25 Web Hoaxes and Pranks

These online spoofs and shams have made the rounds on Web sites and through e-mail. Perhaps you even believed one or two of them yourself.

Whether they take the form of a comic image of a giant cat or a desperate plea from a sick child, chain e-mail messages and Internet frauds are elements of the online landscape that we've all encountered. No topic is off limits: a medical warning, a promise of free money, or a believably (or shoddily) Photoshopped image.

 

But at the end of the day, they're just elaborate hoaxes or clever pranks--and we've collected 25 of the most infamous ones ever to have graced the Internet or our inboxes.

http://tech.msn.com/news/articlepcw.aspx?cp-documentid=4831281&page=1

 

...and be sure to Forward this to EVERYONE YOU KNOW !!!!!!!!!!!

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