Email hoaxes
Every week it seems that someone at work sees fit to email the latest and greatest ZOMG!virus hoax to all and sundry.
Do people not check this crap? Does no one (other than me) think, hmm, let me take a second to paste a key phrase from this melodramatic opus into Google and see how many links to hoax website it comes up with *head!desk* Obviously very few do - that's how they spread round the world - but spotting the same text making the rounds 7-8 years after it first appeared is pretty impressive too.
There are a lot of scared, gullible people out there, and they really are gobsmacked when informed of the trick. Today's resulted in the "victim" asking me things like "what sort of person creates such a hoax?" Um, you work with kids with massive behavioural issues.. you tell me. It doesn't even take mad programming skillz, or even good English.
Do people not check this crap? Does no one (other than me) think, hmm, let me take a second to paste a key phrase from this melodramatic opus into Google and see how many links to hoax website it comes up with *head!desk* Obviously very few do - that's how they spread round the world - but spotting the same text making the rounds 7-8 years after it first appeared is pretty impressive too.
There are a lot of scared, gullible people out there, and they really are gobsmacked when informed of the trick. Today's resulted in the "victim" asking me things like "what sort of person creates such a hoax?" Um, you work with kids with massive behavioural issues.. you tell me. It doesn't even take mad programming skillz, or even good English.