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Resources for Investigating Hoaxes

• Hoax Search at Snopes.com
• Truth About Computer Virus Myths and Hoaxes vmyths.com
• Hoax page at Symantec
• Hoax page at McAfee Associates
• Hoax resources in other languages than English can be found at the bottom of Frank Xiemann's page at TU-Berlin (the main page is in German).
• Hoaxbusters at DOE's CIAC. Information on specific hoaxes are often several months out-of-date but there is general information such as:
  • What are Internet Hoaxes and Chain Letters?
  • The Risk and Cost of Hoaxes
  • Recognizing Hoaxes
  • Recognizing a Chain Letter
  • Validating the Warning
  • What To Do When You Receive a Warning
  • Why People Send Chain Letters and Hoax Messages
  • History of Internet Hoaxes