Alice LaPlante writes about internet hoaxes. They can potentially be really harmful, from instilling fear in people to providing a gold mine of email addresses for spammers. Sometimes a warning email actually becomes a vehicle for carrying malicous code itself, as in the email warning not to open E-cards which may contain code. Instead, the evil ones attach the code to the email and people unknowingly circulate it among their friends. According to Zulfikar Ramzan, technical director at Symantec,"the hoax becomes the mechanism for the fraud." DiscussBury
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