Urban Legends and Hoaxes

Look for the following pieces of information at these web sites:

  1. Stealing kidney
  2. Microsoft testing email
  3. NPR petition

http://snopes.com

One stop source looking up urban legends, internet hoaxes, virus alerts, NPR petitions, whether or not to save the top of soda/pop cans etc. Before you send it out to everyone in your address book, check it here first.

http://www.breakthechain.org 
A place to check on internet hoaxes and urban legends. Before you pass on that NPR petition, check it out here. This is the place I go to when I can't remember snopes.

 

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