hoax

This is just awful. An Irish mum posted online today to say that children at her daughter’s school have been receiving distressing messages. Among the messages sent were some threatening a school shooting and it’s absolutely shocking. The concerned parent wrote on parenting page Mams Ireland to share examples of the awful messages being sent; […]

7 years ago

A missing baby and mother “human trafficking” case has been revealed to be a hoax. Police in North Carolina today arrested a woman for claiming that a mother and her newborn baby were missing and in danger. Last week, the Scotland County Sheriff’s Office shared a Facebook post seeking the public’s help in locating a […]

8 years ago

A ‘sophisticated’ scam. Netflix users are being warned to be wary of any scams as a hoax email has been doing the round in the past few days. The scam in question is an email that tells you your account has been suspended. It then directs you to click a link which lands to a […]

8 years ago

A US website has come under fire for selling a range of realistic props designed to help women appear pregnant.  Fakeababy.com has hit the headlines after a teenage girl used various accessories purchased from the site to convince her family and her boyfriend that she was pregnant with triplets. The 16-year-old, from Michigan, bought a […]

11 years ago

It was a hoax. When a beautiful young French woman took to Youtube to launch a search for the handsome father of her unborn baby, the story made headlines all over the world. But today we can reveal that the story was part of a clever marketing ploy to put the beachside Australian town of […]

11 years ago