Click Here to read Some examples of Hoaxes and Legends
Urban legends, scary urban legends, funny urban legends- more cyberjunk!
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"This actually happened to my husband's brother's wife's cousin's dry cleaner" This would be the claim of truth and the insinuation that it happened to a real person.
You may never have received a scary email that started off that way but I bet the phrase sounds familiar - or at least a variation of it. The makings of an urban legend!
An urban legend is a story that may or may not be based in some sort of truth but what part is truth or if there is any truth left by the time you hear about it is questionable.
You are pulled into reading the scary email because it's usually trying to warn or caution you about something, a product, a person, an activity, a lurking danger and you feel compelled to pass it on because it's scary or funny and.... "what if it's true?" there are people that could be helped by having this information!
Before heeding the underlying warning and scaring half of your friends to death with stories of LSD in telephone booths or the hazards of ingesting margarine (did you know it's one molecule away from being plastic?) Check it out (good sources on the resources page) and if it is indeed an urban legend do your friend (the one concerned for your health or well being) a favour and send him/her a link to the page that tells the truth and maybe even a link to this site so that they can get the skinny on all of this cyberjunk!
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