The Top 25 Web Hoaxes and Pranks

[Floater]

Collected on the Internet (Yahoo in this case):

Whether they take the form of a comic image of a giant cat or a desperate plea from a sick child, chain e-mail messages and Internet frauds are elements of the online landscape that we've all encountered. No topic is off limits: a medical warning, a promise of free money, or a believably (or shoddily) Photoshopped image. But at the end of the day, they're just elaborate hoaxes or clever pranks--and we've collected 25 of the most infamous ones ever to have graced the Internet or our inboxes.

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And if you haven't had enough when you finish reading this article, take a hoax test at the Museum of Hoaxes, and then hop over to Snopes, the premier myth-dispelling site for coverage of zillions of other falsifications.

[Beldaran]

And most of the links in the rest of the article link back here. I say most because I haven't clicked on them all yet, I was hurrying over here to post this, but I see it has been taken care of.