Hottest 25 Urban Legends

1. E-mail claims you must sign up with the national Do Not Call list to prevent telemarketers from calling your cell phone.
2. E-mail warns about a disease known as Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC).
3. E-mail warns about scammers' paging you from the 809 area code.
4. E-mail claims Bill Gates, Microsoft and AOL are giving away cash and merchandise to those who forward an e-mail message.
5. E-mail claims Target stores do not support veterans.
6. E-mail disclaims anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan's relationship with her son.
7. E-mail warns about Invitation (or Olympic Torch) computer virus.
8. Amy Bruce, a terminally ill young girl, writes "Slow Dance" poem.
9. E-mail warns about the dangers of outdated pancake mix.
10. Controversy over a new Pepsi can design and the Pledge of Allegiance.
11. E-mail describes woman who evades a rapist posing as a policeman by calling #77 (or *677) on her cell phone.
12. E-mailed computer virus claims Osama bin Laden has been captured or hanged.
13. E-mail claims the Swiffer WetJet poses a general danger to dogs and other pets.
14. Missing child alert: Ashley Flores.
15. Photographs show a female tiger raising a group of piglets.
16. E-mail says Sears pays the difference in salaries and maintains benefits for their called-up military reservist employees.
17. Merck is offering to donate $1 to cancer research for every pair of free "Make the Connection" bracelet kits ordered from them
18. Video clip shows a magician pulling a woman apart at the waist.
19. E-mail warns of parking lot thieves who render their victims unconscious with ether-laced perfume.
20. Warning about scammers running up long-distance charges on your bill by asking you to press #-9-0 on your telephone.
21. E-mail warns about jury duty phone scam perpetrated by identity thieves.
22. E-mail offers transcript of 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney's explaining his political views.
23. E-mailed warning cautions that prepackaged salads could contain E. coli.
24. Actor/writer Ben Stein's commentary on the observance of Christmas.
25. E-mail protests the release of two British teens who killed Jamie Bulger.

I seem to be getting an awful lot of warning emails which apparently are urban legends. I swear I've gotten the $79 speeding ticket solution at least 6 or 7 times. It's kind of funny actually, so I've done a little investigating of my own and came up with a list of urban legends.