Hoax Supreme

 

Now this is what I call a nice hoax with eye-catching headlines. Notice the difference in the URL. Everything else looks real original. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Sigh!

Thanks to Ash for pointing it out to me.

“Hoax Supreme” [Short URL: http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=398] was published Monday, December 6th, 2004 at 2:40 pm by Patrix, filed under Internet. Both comments and linkbacks are closed.

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  • http://www.livejournal.com/users/ashweeta Ash

    Heyyyy, I was gonna link the url to my post :( This is what comes of being lazy and postponing things…. *sigh*
    Well, atleast u gave me credit :P

    But man, when I read this, it blew my mind. At first I thought it was breaking news, and I was going to run around screaming Yo! Canada Rocks! Then I read the date ..Nov 29..and I started wondering if my TV-less student life has cut me off so faaar from the world that I didn’t know something this big had happened !!! But on second thoughts, I was sure I’d have never stopped hearing the end of it from you :) So I googled it and realized that it was a fantastically concocted joke … Some wiseass certainly knows how to tease us Bush-haters, huh ?

  • http://dunwoody.rediffblogs.com Spaceman

    Dude, I can’t get to the site. Censored already?!

  • http://patrix.typepad.com Patrix

    Ash – Every second counts in the blogger world…don’t worry, I’ll give you some tip-offs that you can blog about next time. Its a mutal give-n-take :) Hopefully that credit link has placated you for now.

    Spaceman – Works fine for me…maybe ur ISP is playing traunt.

  • Flea

    Dozens of satirical sites jumped on this one, but the original is down. Too much traffic I guess.

  • http://patrix.typepad.com Patrix

    Flea – Too bad it didn’t linger long enough for the rest to enjoy…was really an elaborate hoax…but too sensational.

  • http://chetan.ckunte.com/ Chetan

    New phishing? LOL :)

  • http://patrix.typepad.com Patrix

    Chetan – Yup! Might be more dangerous than the normal email bank scams…fraudlent information has a far-reaching damaging effect.


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