Thursday, June 29, 2006

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 E-mail warns about the dangers of outdated pancake mix.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.

1 comment:

Blog U Say!!! said...

Hmmmm There are a lot of them I have yet to see but I have been offered a fortune many times by helping the family of a deceased African Prince get his money out of the bank.

and the ones that tell you if you break this chain something really bad is going to happen. I should have been hit by a bus at least 300 times by now.

It takes one person to create it and email it to 20 people that are not real sure about computers yet and from there they spread at unbelievable rates.

The Viagra and Hoodia spam mail are the worst. OK if Hoodia really works as good as they say I can definately use it. I think I am a year or 2 safe from Viagra and really I think I'd ask my doctor instead of buying anything like that over the internet. But they must make some money at it or they wouldnt be doing it.