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The Newest Hoaxes That Duped the Web

If you've been using the internet long enough, then you probably had been the victim in one way or another of an internet hoax. It probably was an email forwarded to you by a friend asking you to pray for the troops in Iraq not only because they were fighting a dangerous war but also because there were giant one-foot camel spiders that they had to deal with. Or videos on YouTube of an American teenager who became the victim of some cult that imprisoned her in her own house. Or that photo of the "Tourist of Death" showing a man standing atop the World Trade Center and the plane of 9/11 about to crash into it. Or a news report saying "Britney Spears/Justin Timberlake killed in a car accident". And so on and so forth.

When the anonymity of the internet as well as its power to virally spread an idea combine with the genius of a prankster, an internet hoax is born. As young as the internet still is, we've already been through hundreds of these web hoaxes.

With that said, here are the most recent hoaxes that got us duped.

=> The Woolly Mammoth Hoax

British tabloid The Sun is responsible for making this hoax spread. The tabloid's website run a story titled 'Woolly mammoth' spotted in Siberia. Included in the article is a video of the mammoth crossing a river in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug region of Siberia. According to the report, the footage was taken by a government-employed engineer. The said engineer wasn't named.

Why it's a hoax:
*Derek Serra, a video effects artist said that the footage "appears to have been intentionally blurred."
*The footage was filmed by a certain Ludovic Petho, a writer and videographer. Petho said that he took the footage at the Kitoy River in Siberia's Sayan Mountains in the summer of 2011. He recalls seeing bears, deers, and sable during his excursion but no mammoths.

Internet Hoaxes In The News

Internet Hoax Leaves Robin Williams Dead: Robin Williams is very much alive and well, but an internet hoax has thrown him six feet under with a barrage of other still-living celebrities. This is the latest in the line of ridiculous and sometimes cruel hoaxes claiming celebrities are dead.
Internet Hoax! Abraham Lincoln Didn't Invent Facebook: The Internet echo chamber strikes again! Like so many celebrity deaths and that girl who was ?looking for her baby daddy? on Craigslist, the internet was fooled this week by a heartfelt story about Abraham Lincoln patenting a pen-and-ink version of ...
Looking Up: The Mars question: From time to time one of the most enduring Internet hoaxes appears with regard to Mars. It invariably advises you to go outdoors late on a particular night (usually when Mars is not even in the sky) to be sure to see the planet at the largest, ...
Robin Williams Death Hoax; Actor is Alive and Well: An internet hoax about the actor falling to his death in Kitzbuhel, Austria, has been swirling the net. Williams is not the only victim to fall prey of the spate of death hoaxes. Mel Gibson, Ryan Gosling, and George Clooney have all been targeted by ...

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