Last Thursday night we realized that our cell phones would not be instantly inundated with calls from telemarketers if we did not submit our number to the National Do Not Call Registry before a certain deadline. That was (and still is) an Internet hoax.
This Thursday night it’s all about an Amber Alert for a missing 15-year-old boy by the name of Evan Trembley. You are urged to forward an E-Mail (and accompanying picture of Evan) to everyone that you know so that someone – anyone could find him and return him to his Mom.
The fact of the matter is that Evan is a real person, and he is also fine and well. It was actually he himself who started this Internet hoax last Summer (2007) in an effort to become famous online to impress his friends. It worked. He is now Internationally-known. Just don’t go looking for him – unless you live in his neighbourhood.
Read all about this Internet hoax at About.com: Urban Legends.
DON’T believe everything that you read within your E-Mail Inbox. If it doesn’t sound right then it probably isn’t true. If you receive an E-Mail that states that you should forward it on to everyone that you know then that should be the tip-off right there that you are dealing with an Internet hoax. Kill the hoax. Hit the DELETE key !
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