Hoax

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Reuters - A 49-year-old Missouri woman accused of pretending to be a love-struck teenage boy on MySpace and driving a 13-year-old girl to suicide with cruel messages was indicted on Thursday on federal charges. ...

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Woman faces federal charges for alleged online Hoax that led to girl's suicide. ...

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And it's a Hoax that keeps on giving. Spouting panic-inducing nonsense borrowed from other false virus alerts dating back eight years, the "Postcard" warning has been in circulation since February,... ...

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A 49-year-old Missouri woman accused of pretending to be a love-struck teenage boy on MySpace and driving a 13-year-old girl to suicide with cruel messages was indicted on Thursday on federal charges. ...

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The drive was launched after DGP Vikram Singh received an SMS on Wednesday threatening to blow up Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) premises in Lucknow. ...

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Federal prosecutors accused the Missouri woman of conspiring to violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by setting up a fake MySpace profile as a 16-year-old boy, to manipulate a 13-year-old girl who wound up committing suicide. ...

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk --- 1 day ago
A woman has been charged with perpetrating a MySpace Hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide. Lori Drew, 49, allegedly helped create a fake MySpace account to convince neighbour Megan Meier that she was chatting with a 16-year-old boy ...

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An American mother has been indicted for her alleged role in a Hoax on MySpace, the online social networking site, against a 13-year-old girl who later committed suicide. ...

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Is “global warming” a Hoax? Here is one perspective: The Scientific Evidence for Global Warming From the article: The objective evidence for global warming is not hard to find. Glaciers are disappearing all over the world. The hottest 22 years on record have occurred since 1980. Over the last 100 years, temperatures at the Earth’s surface increased by [...] ...

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Apparently the story where a Child steals his dad's credit card and pays for hookers so they can play halo story is fake. http://kotaku.com/391055/boys-pay-ho...tory-isnt-real The original WHT topic can be found http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showth...=692125&page=3 ...

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LOS ANGELES--A US mom was indicted Thursday for her role in a MySpace Hoax that ended with a 13-year-old girl committing suicide after being spurned by a boy who doesn't exist. ...

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The Associated Press. Thursday, May 15, 2008 Los Angeles - A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a Missouri woman for her alleged role in perpetrating a Hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide. Lori Drew of suburban St. Louis allegedly... ...

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Before we get into the details, I think everyone can agree that the story of Megan Meier is quite tragic. She was the 13-year-old girl who was "friended" on MySpace by a boy with whom she became close online. After a certain amount of time, the boy turned on her, trying to end the friendship and saying that "the world would be better off without her." After receiving this message, Megan committed suicide. Later, it was discovered that the boy in question never existed -- and was part of a Hoax perpetrated by some of Megan's friends/neighbors, including the mother of one of Megan's former friends. The story is, most definitely, sad and tragic -- and it's no surprise that there are people out for vengeance, with the main target being Lori Drew, the adult who participated in some manner in the Hoax. However, as we said back when state prosecutors in Missouri couldn't find any law to prosecute, being a total jerk online is not a crime. As stupid as the prank was, it wasn't designed to make the girl commit suicide. But, of course, when you have a high profile case that includes a 13-year-old girl committing suicide after being misled, people are still going to push for something to be done (or they end up doing something themselves). So with state prosecutors failing to find anything, federal prosecutors stepped in, and have now indicted Lori Drew on a number of different charges , relating to "conspiracy and fraudulent ...

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