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A small site providing a useful starting point for researching a possibly hoax email. ... Does it credit its sources or provide links to a reputable website? Hoax emails rarely, if ever, do.

Beware of hoax emails designed to look like they've come from St.George. We will never send emails that request you to enter your personal information or redirect you to logon to Internet Banking.

A TEENAGER who bombarded his former bosses with FIVE MILLION hoax emails after he was sacked was ordered to be electronically tagged yesterday. ... Detective Constable Bob Burls, ... Lennon, of Bedworth,

A 40 year-old man today pleaded guilty to sending hoax emails to friends and relatives of British people missing following the Tsunami disaster.

Hoaxsters, on the other hand, have motives that are less transparent. Perhaps people most commonly start hoax emails simply to see how far, and for how long, their nonsensical messages will spread.

Hoax emails, such as chain letters or bogus petitions, are sometimes nothing more than a nuisance but they can be used by spammers to collect email addresses and some are more sinister. ... You Are Here:

The National Intelligence Agency, with authorisation from its axed director-general Billy Masetlha, paid a consultant to fabricate emails in order to sow divisions and contribute to the succession ...

How many times have you opened up your emails and found one like the following: ... It was announced today by both Microsoft and CNN that a new unknown email virus has been discovered. This is NO HOAX;