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The Business World's Best April Fools Day Pranks
12:30PM 4/01/2011
April Fools Day is the perfect time for people to play practical jokes and pranks on each other. But the holiday isn't just for individuals: Large companies have long had a tradition of using April 1 to pull humorous hoaxes on the public too. Here are a few favorites.
On April 1, Corporate America Dons the Foolscap
12:12PM 4/01/2010
In a tradition that seems to have weathered even the direst financial news, some of America's top companies post practical jokes on April 1. From Google to Starbucks, the normally staid titans of industry are making the world just a little bit quirkier today.
It's bad enough that the H1N1 swine flu pandemic has caused such widespread public anxiety, and it's worse that the vaccine has become its own source of concern, whether due to the shortage or spurious fears about its safety. Now, the bottom-feeders known as phishing scammers are exploiting the...
Don't fall for this email hoax to fight cancer
11:00AM 10/29/2009
We all want to see breast cancer cured, so it's no surprise that people respond to an email that tells them that sending a single text message or email to a friend would cause a large national company to donate a buck to cancer research. Unfortunately, it's not true.
The email, according to...
Zac Bissonnette recently wrote about a quote that is making the rounds on Wall Street. It claims to be a passage from Karl Marx that predicts our current economic predicament:
Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing...
Federal Trade Commission shuts down the "scareware" trade
12:00PM 12/18/2008
We've all encountered them. At some time in our Internet lives, we've each landed in a safe, or even familiar, website, when suddenly a blaring warning message has appeared. We were then informed that our computer was being assaulted by any number of nasty viruses, spy ware programs, or Trojan...
Utilizing a bit of humorous slight-of-hand, the Daily News has successfully conducted a heist of one of our nation's most iconic buildings. The Daily News, by easily passing a few forged documents, liberated the Empire State Building from its rightful owners. This "theft" was done in an exercise...
Fruity and ostentatious, yet highly fictitious: Online restaurant, hotel reviews easy to fake
4:00PM 8/21/2008
Ripoffs and Scams, Retail, Travel, Food, Crime, Family Money
We all do it. When we're planning a trip to an unfamiliar city or we're looking for a new hole-in-the-wall for a dinner date near home, we poke around online for reviews of local restaurants. But on some sites, reviews are serving up a steaming plate of B.S.WalletPop told you about the hugely...
The worst thing we saw last week in the bigfoot press conference was the absolute decline of American hucksterism. Two Georgia men, Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, and Tom Biscardi, an oily California bigfoot seeker, unconvincingly explained how they had found a yeti corpse and live family of...
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