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Friday, 12 October 2001 : "The Register and hoaxes"

The Register takes care of a whole batch of mail hoaxes at once, including one just like the Halloween shopping mall one from yesterday:

The World Will End Tomorrow
That's right - it's all going to kick off on Saturday. Tell all your friends and then run for the hills.

Or, if you've already received another version of this email: where the Arab drops his wallet in a cab/pub/pole-dancing club; where he gives the date as 28/30 September or 1/5/10 October; or where MI5 turn up at your door with a really big book of wanted terrorists, you might want to reflect on the net hoax phenomenon which can reduce otherwise rational people to headless chickens.


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