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http://urbanlegends.about.com/Last activity: 13.08.2010
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| Feb 11, 2009 | Fake Amber Alert fools social media | Article content If you are worried about the seven-year-old Chilliwack girl purportedly abducted in a silver pick up truck you can relax and stop sending the so-called Amber Alert out to everyone on your contact list. It’s a hoax. We apolog... |
| Jan 28, 2009 | Islam is the Light: The video game | http://www.wpri.com/video/videoplayer.swf Mattel has been accused, again, of supporting Islam in their games and toys. The company stuck some baby gibberish into a doll and a Nintendo DS game that ends with something that sounds like “Islam... |
| Mar 7, 2008 | Five reasons why Internet rumours will never die | Article content We’ve got a story in today’s paper about why all those Internet rumours infesting your Inbox — whether that Barack Obama is a Muslim or Mr. Rogers’ was a Marine sniper — keep on spreading long after they’ve been thoroughly d... |
| Mar 9, 2007 | The AudioFile: Bad Things Happen To Good Players | I spend a good amount of time at my officelocal neighborhood pub, Harefield Road, where I’ve gotten a reputation for fixing iPods, among other things. One of the pub’s owners, Peter “C.J.” Egan, has brought his 4th generation iPod to the pu... |
| Jun 29, 2004 | The Man Behind The Bill Gates Email Forwarding Hoax | Over the years, there have been plenty of different variants on the chain letter urban legend saying that Bill Gates will give you cash for forwarding on the email. A reporter at Wired Magazine began to wonder just how these hoax emails got... |
| Jul 21, 2003 | Phones Cause Explosions At Fuel Pumps? | It appears that a major news publication in Australia has been suckered. The urban legend of mobile phones causing fuel pumps to explode has been making its way around the internet for years. However, a newspaper in Australia has printed it... |
| Oct 10, 2000 | Imagine The Revenue On An Email Tax! | You can’t believe everything you read. The Turkish Stud was a hoax. Neither Microsoft nor Disney will pay you anything to forward a chain letter. Cookie recipes are not worth >$100. And the government is not going to tax your email. Alth... |
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Parsers VC has collected 8 articles mentioning urbanlegends.about.com, among them “Fake Amber Alert fools social media” (Feb 11, 2009) and “Islam is the Light: The video game” (Jan 28, 2009).
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Yes, urbanlegends.about.com is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Aug 13, 2010.