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FBI Says Latest Internet Scare Letter 'Not Credible Threat'

Friday, October 12, 2001

Were you planning to go to the mall on Halloween? But not now, because a certain letter has appeared in your e-mail inbox, and you're afraid?

If so, you've been frightened by what the FBI says is just the latest in a series of internet rumors.

Maybe these rumors are part of a plot to spread yet more terror, but more likely they'...

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911 Hoaxes Make Life Just a Little Harder

Thursday, October 11, 2001

There's the letter you're supposed to get from the Klingerman Foundation. In it will be a little piece of foam, damp with deadly biological agents.

Not. It's an old urban legend that was first discovered in April of 2000, resuscitated by vicious pranksters to make our lives just a little more miserable in this scary time. Or, just maybe...

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