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Friday Morning Spice
17 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The kingpins of South Africa’s biggest pyramid scheme in history, Billie Eilish album review, Gwede Mantashe asks SA to give party another chance, AND OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train AI on your posts.
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That Time 13 Art Students Fooled The British Press [Video]
10 Oct 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Pretending to lead a glamorous life on social media is basically par for the course these days but it was a different story in 1998.
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How These Guys Pulled Off An Infamous UFO Hoax [Video]
05 Aug 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
Two pranksters put out some flares and balloons in New Jersey in 2009, creating a local buzz around the possibility of UFOs. VICE shares a YouTube documentary that reveals the “social experiment” behind the hoax.
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Don’t Go Near The ‘Mr Bean’ Death Hoax Doing The Rounds
19 Jul 2018 by Nereesha Patel / No Comments
Beware – there’s an online scam disguised as a death hoax going around on social media, which claims that Rowan Atkinson, aka. Mr Bean, is dead.
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Keen To Teach English In Asia? Watch Out For This Scam
11 Jun 2018 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Many South Africans head over to the likes of South Korea to teach English, but here’s one Capetonian’s cautionary tale to make sure you do your homework.
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Please Enjoy The Email We Just Received From The Minister of Public Enterprises
04 Dec 2017 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Lynne Brown’s name is being dragged through the mud at the moment, as rumours of her ‘capture’ circulate. In the midst of all that she took the time to reach out to us.
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“One Of The Biggest Cons In The History Of Photojournalism” – How This Chap Duped The World [Images]
07 Sep 2017 by Kiernan / No Comments
Eduardo Martins was a darling of the photojournalism world – leukaemia survivor, surfer, and not afraid to venture deep into conflict zones. Turns out that was all baloney.
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The Jayden K Smith Facebook Hoax That’s Coming Your Way
11 Jul 2017 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There’s another Facebook hoax doing the rounds, preying on fears that the social network site is under siege from hackers. Feel free to send this to those who share it.
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Do This To “STOP” Those Annoying Competition Text Messages For Good
02 Nov 2016 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Chances are you receive your fair share of unwanted text messages with offers and competitions, so let’s come together and banish them with a few simple steps.
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Facebook Law For Idiots [VIDEO]
28 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Fellow Internet users and 2oceansvibers. We are sure you are not at fault here, being the bastion of modern communication etiquette you are. You may, however, know someone who is at fault; we would love you to forward this on to them.
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Former Springbok’s Charity Hoax Exposed
12 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Thys Burger, a former springbok rugby player, has been caught out with his hands dirty after it was unveiled that he has been scamming charities out of money. Burger, who was capped at Number 8 three times in the 80’s, is also the father of former Cheetah players and current Blitzbokke player, Philip Burger.
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Mosman Collar Bomb A ‘Very, Very Elaborate Hoax.’
04 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Police have confirmed that the device attached to terrified Australian schoolgirl Madeleine Pulver was not a bomb, just a tremendously elaborate hoax. The device, attached to the girl by a masked intruder in her parent’s home, “gave the appearance of a legitimate improvised explosive device.”
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“Gay Girl In Damascus” Blogger Is A Married Dude From Georgia
13 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There was a fair amount of coverage about the apparent arrest of “Amina Arraf”, the pseudonym of openly gay Syrian blogger behind ‘Gay Girl In Damascus,’ which did a lot for getting word out about human rights issues in Syria. Except it turns out that Amina was invented by 40-year-old Tom McMaster, from Georgia.
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Sadness, RE-35 Will Not Turn Your 35mm Film Camera Into A Digital Camera
05 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I was amazed to see, on Gizmodo, that a company has brought out a USB cartridge that actually allows you to take digital photos with your old 35mm film camera. But all my hopes were dashed when I read that it was all just a terribly cruel April Fools joke.
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