Hoaxbusters
Contributors: United States. Dept. of Energy. Computer Incident Advisory Capability (Team)
Publisher: Computer Incident Advisory Capability
Published: 1995
Place of publication: [Livermore, Calif.]
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Spam (Electronic mail); Internet fraud.
Other titles: Hoax busters; CIAC hoax pages
Description: "Anyone who has received the Bill Gates money-back offer or an urgent email from a pseudo-Nigerian official needing a place to deposit untold sums of money will find this site, created and maintained by the CIAC (Computer Incident Advisory Capability), helpful. The objective of this site is to "describe some of the warnings, offers, and pleas for help that are filling our mailboxes, clogging our mail servers, and that generally do not have any basis in fact." Suspected hoaxes can easily be verified by keyword searching, through an index, or by investigating pre-set categories such as Urban Myths, Giveaways, etc."--"Best Free Reference Web Sites 2003," RUSA Quarterly, Fall 2003; reviewed Mar. 3, 2003.
Notes: Title from home page (viewed on Oct. 7, 2003; last updated Sept. 5, 2003).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.