This list is compiled to help those of us who get annoyed because frequently, well-meaning people send us EMails to try to get us to help save a child's life (if this EMail is forwarded...).
Urban Legends and EMail hoaxes take up a lot of bandwidth and don't offer much else.
If someone asks you to forward an EMail, you might want to take a look at some of these sites to see if you'll be wasting the adressees' time.
- 4Urbanlegends.com
- The AFU & Urban Legends Archive
- Breaking The Chain: The Truth About Chain Letters
- CIAC Internet Chain Letters
- Current Internet Hoaxes, urban legends, and other digital lies - Urban Legends and Folklore
- Article: ‘Cyber-chumps’ are Net’s big victims
- Don't Forward That Warning!
- Don't Spread That Hoax!
- Internet Viruses, Virus Hoaxes & Urban Legends
- Modern Legends Online
- purportal.com: the bunk stops here
- Pyramid Schemes, Ponzi Schemes, and Related Frauds
- Stop Spam
- Superstitions Old Wives Tales Beliefs & Misconceptions
- Symantec Corporation: Symantec Antivirus Research Center: Hoaxes
- THIS IS NO JOKE - MEDITATIONS ON THE CHAIN LETTER
- Trakstar - Internet hoaxes, myths, and urban legends
- Trivia at uselessknowledge.com
- TruthorFiction.com
- The Urban Legend Combat Kit at NetSquirrel.com
- Urban Legend Generator
- URBAN LEGENDs
- Urban Legends
- Urban Legends
- Urban legends about celebrities
- Urban Legends: Don't Believe Everything You Read
- Urban Legends and Folklore from About.com
- Urban Legends and Modern Folklore
- Urban Legends Reference Pages
- Urban Legends Research Centre
- Urban Legends Research Request Form
- Virus Hoaxes
- Vmyths.com - Learn about computer virus myths, hoaxes, urban legends, hysteria, and the implications if you believe in them.
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updated 04-nov-2001