Category: Celebrity Death Hoaxs

Lita Ford is living not deceased

A report that Runaways vocalist Lita Ford is dead is burning its way approximately the Internet. Stories of a terrible Jet Ski accident have wedged on like wildfire. Of course, people have very much begun searching to verify the news they have hear.

 

The good news is that Lita Ford is not dead. She is still rocking (and hot) at age 51. The rocker is even programmed to do at Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort in Mount Pleasant on August 27. Tesla and Whitesnake will play at the similar concert.

 

 

Ford, along with Joan Jett were hot substance with their band Runaways in the 1970s, which the movie The Runaways starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning chronicled their achievement. In the film, Scout Taylor-Compton play Lita Ford, the band’s lead guitarist.

 

Since her near the beginning fame with the band, Ford has become a feeling on her own. She will soon release a new album, which will additional prove that she did not die in a jet ski accident. From the beginning, the guitarist worked to “prove to the fans that girls can play guitar.” She surely made her point these past four decades.

Caution: Whitney Houston autopsy videotape links on Face book.

Whitney Houston The bereavement of pop superstar Whitney Houston made headline around the world this weekend, and it didn’t get long for fraudsters and cybercriminal to money in on the singer’s death.

 

For example, messages have been seen public on Face book claim to link to a video of Whitney Houston’s autopsy. According to the post, the video of Whitney Houston’s autopsy “reveals a shocking secret that explain her death”.

 

 

Here’s what a typical message looks like:

 

– Whitney Houstons autopsy reveals a shocking secret that explains her death

Breaking information: Coroner’s autopsy reports reveals a dim past and secret life which sadly led to Whitney Houstons death. Clicking on the link will take your browser which appears to show a YouTube video embedded on what looks like a Face book webpage. Though, a message on the sheet says that the video cannot be played as your version of Adobe Flash needs to be updated.

 

 

Of course, you be supposed to only still download an update for your fitting of Flash from the *real* Adobe website, so my advice would be very wary about downloading any software that this bogus webpage might serve up to you, or any scam survey pages that it might straight you towards.

Reba McEntire deceased? Famous person bereavement Hoax exposed

Not remember what you’ve interpret on Twitter—country singer and actress Reba McEntire is NOT dead! McEntire, who before advise as a counselor to Blake Shelton on The Voice and is an future guest star on Who Do You Think You Are?, is the newest celebrity to fall victim of a viral death hoax. Read on for the details of the crazy, and completely false, news story.

 

“Beginning reports from Austrian Police officials point to that the actress fell more than 100 feet to her death in a distant area of the Hahnenkamm Mountains while on-set during the filming of a movie,” said the Global Associated News. “Exact details are not yet obtainable.”

 

The website also affirmed that the accident occur at about 4:30 a.m.



 

However, the website also posts a very significant disclaimer at the base of the page…

 

“FAKE…THIS STORY IS 100% FAKE! This is an activity website, and this is a absolutely fake article based on zero truth and is a total work of fiction for amusement purposes! This story was animatedly generated using a generic ‘template’ and is not factual. Any location to specific individuals has been 100% fabricated by web site visitors who have created counterfeit stories by incoming a name into a blank ‘non-specific’ template for the purpose of activity.”

 

Unluckily, many fans have missed the rider and have been flooding Reba McEntire’s social media pages with questions about the rumor’s validity.

Paul McCartney Death Spam News

Paul is deceased! One of the odder, more amazing aspects of Beatles lore was this late ’60s rumor that McCartney had died in 1966 and had been replaced by an imposter. The rumor is far and wide supposed to have originated with an article in print in the Drake University student newspaper.

 

Radio disc jockeys continued to fuel it, Beatles songs were played toward the back in search of clues, which fans believed were planted by the Beatles, and books have been written on the topic. McCartney was very a great deal alive, and he performed at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival last spring, picture.

Rihanna Is NOT deceased

Sad News on one occasion Again, Singer and Songwriter RIHANNA passed away some Hours ago in a Plane collide on her way to Germany to shoot her new music video… Our Prayers and pity go out to her Family! Pass this message on So that people would know how small life is and that celebrity and fortune can’t buy your life.

 

According to messages that are at present circulate rapidly via Face book, Twitter and other social networks, singing star Rihanna has be kill in a plane crash.

However, the claims in the messages are false. Rihanna is living and well.

 

Celebrity page Gossip Cop has report on the story note that “Rihanna is the victim of a death hoax” and that the death rumor is “100% false”. And Gather.com confirms her “aliveness“.

 

Furthermore, the star herself has been redistribution on her own social networks since her hypothetical termination.And this is not the first time that the star has allegedly died. Rumors were circulating that claimed that Rihanna had died in a car mishap. In fact, the messages are just more incarnation in a long, sorry line of absurd celebrity death hoaxes that have circulated via email and social networks for many years.

 

If you receive a message claim that a famous person has died, it is shrewd to take the time to verify the claim via a of good reputation news source before sending it on. If the death really happened it will certainly be well covered by the normal media and stories about the death should be easily locatable via a Google News search.

Adam Ant is NOT deceased – in spite of come again? You may have understand writing on the net

Post have increase fast across Twitter and Facebook in the last few hours, claim that the 1980s British pop star Adam Ant has die.

According to the post, the musician – who had hits with songs such as “Prince Charming” and “Stand and Deliver” – died beginning injuries he continuous in a jet ski accident on the Turks and Caicos Islands.

 

Although some users are just tweeting their respects at the “news” of Adam Ant’s death, others are posting a link to what appear to be an online news report about the musical group death.

It’s a very depressing story. Or at smallest amount, it would be if it was true.

Here’s what you observe if you go after the link.

Do you notice the “adam.ant” in the url? I wonder what happens if I change that to include my own name.

Well imagine that – I’m a dead musician!

Some small print, built-in at the bottom of the webpage in a tiny font give the game away for anyone who hasn’t realised that the report is utterly bogus:

FAKE… THIS STORY IS 100% FAKE! This is an activity website, and this is a totally fake article based on zero truth and is a total work of fiction for activity purposes! This story was dynamically generated using a generic pattern and is not factual.

Of course, the pure number of people tweeting out the link won’t have done any damage at all for the website – which presumably is earn income from the adverts plastered on its imaginary news report.Always think cautiously before believing contravention news that someone has shared with you on the net. If a major news outlet has not established it to be true, it’s likely that you could be falling for a confidence trick.

Just imagine the damage that could occur if there was malware lying in wait at the finish of that salacious news story link?No hesitation this won’t be the last time that a rumour spreads swiftly across the internet that a celebrity has died. keep in mind when Christian Slater was killed in a snowboarding accident? Or Tom Cruise fell to his death off a cliff in New Zealand? Or Johnny Depp came to a sticky end in a car crash?

Jon Bon Jovi newest fatality of famous person bereavement hoax

Rumors increase from side to side social media networks nowadays about the supposed death of singer-songwriter Jon Bon Jovi after a fake ‘press release’ rapidly increase.MZ posted this twilight, “Bon Jovi’s rep says the singer is alive and well and performing at a charity event. He may be livin’ on a prayer, but he’s still livin’. “

CNN confirm the news with a tweet, by CNNshowbiz CNN Entertainment, which said, “Jon Bon Jovi is not dead — rep tells #CNN he’s alive, healthy and doing one more charity occasion tonight.”

A fake report post on a blog was quickly increased through Twitter. as well, thousands of ‘likes’ of the fake report show up on Facebook.

The falsified post appeared in a blog that calls itself “dailynewbloginternational” and stated, “Rockstar Jon Bon Jovi (John Francis Bongiovi, Jr) was marked dead today after paramedics found him in a coma at his Empress Hotel, city and law enforcement of Asbury Park, NJ sources told The Times following World Christmas Tour presentation on The deceive Festival,North Beach Asbury Park.”

From this report, rumors were extract and spread the ‘news’ that Bon Jovi had stopped breathing and had suffered cardiac take into care

All through the day the fake report was retweeted a “whole bunch of times,” reported NJ.com.

Bon Jovi is, by far, not the first victim of a celebrity death hoax. A few weeks ago Will Smith was a victim of a death hoax. Over time many celebrity fake ‘reports’ have emerged on social networks. It is also not rare for recycled stories of fake deaths to appear swapping out the celebrity’s name.

Malware attack poses as bloody photos of Gaddafi’s death

Gaddafi The bereavement of Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi has almost unavoidably resulted in cybercriminals captivating advantage of the news story, and the universal public’s apparent interest in viewing ghoulish photos and videos of his previous moments.

 

Malicious hackers have spammed out an attack posing as pictures of Gaddafi’s death, trick users into believe that they came from the AFP news agency and are life form forwarded by a fellow internet user.

 

A typical message looks like this:

 

Subject: Fw: AFP Photo News: Bloody Photos: Libya dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s Death

 

Message body:

 

Libya dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s Death

 

Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, the most required man in the world, has been killed, the country’s rebel government claim Oct. 20. The flamboyant oppressors who terrorize his country and much of the world during his 42 years of despotic rule was cornered by insurgents in the town of Sirte, where Gadhafi had been natural and a stranglehold of his supporters.

 

Windows computer users who decompress the emotionally involved file are put their PCs at risk of infection. The RAR archive file creates a malicious file called:

Bloody Photos_Gadhafi_Death\Gadhafi?rar.scr

Although there has been much conjecture in the media about the option of Gaddafi-related malware attacks and scams, this is the first one that I’ve seen since the death of Gaddafi made news headlines around the world the past.

Internet users would be wise to keep in mind to be very cautious about the links they click on, and to be suspicious of unsolicited attachment.

Eddie Murphy deceased Reports guide original Celebrity Death Hoaxes

Eddie Murphy dead reports the past were hard to believe. The Eddie Murphy dead rumor was rapidly debunk during one of the busier days of debunking celebrity death reports.

 

The Internet kills off tons of celebrities at any given time, but the death mill had been calm over the last few months. It was invigorated when they incorrectly reported Aretha Franklin had died, but it was just the start. Not only was Murphy dead by Internet hoaxes the past, so were Owen Wilson, Charlie Sheen and Adam Sandler this week.

 

 

In the case of all these actors/comedians, they were all reported to have died from snowboarding accidents. These days, the hoaxes can’t even be distinctive anymore, as they are both untrue and unoriginal.The rumors that Wilson and Murphy had died broke yesterday; right after the theoretical death of Aretha Franklin was debunked. Sheen and Sandler also had to show they were still alive this week as well. It has been a while since so many famous people died online, but the death mill is making up for its break now.

 

Many populace have been kill more than once online yet always handle to come back to be digitally killed again. It seems that, the Internet believes they cannot snowboard, as Murphy, Wilson, Sandler and Sheen were all killed off at Switzerland’s Zermatt Ski Resort.

 

It’s unclear why the Eddie Murphy hoaxes, and all the other ones, are taking place now. It had been a long time since the Internet killed off this many celebrities, but it seems it is ending the year with a bang. Since so many of them were supposedly killed from snowboarding, this would be the ideal time of year to make that stick.

 

In Murphy’s case, his representative had to emerge and confirm he was still alive. The star doesn’t often make the publicity rounds himself, and has no new movies to promote at the moment. So since he usually avoids the tabloid eye nowadays, the hoaxers likely thought it would be easier to get away with their rumors.Instead, the Estory went away quickly, like the ones that killed Wilson, Sandler, Sheen and Franklin. Claiming that Sheen and Franklin died fooled more people, given Sheen’s lifestyle and Franklin’s current illness. Yet since the three comedians in the bunch have no such problems – presumably – it was easier to debunk their demises.

 

Given the rash of fake celebrity deaths lately, it stands to wonder who will be killed off today and tomorrow. Since they already said Murphy was dead, the pranksters have to pick other icons – but that hasn’t been a problem for them.

Bill Cosby Death Hoax Peaks once more nowadays on Twitter

So far one more celebrity death hoax strike the internet and as a trending topic on Twitter. Go figure. So far this year Bill Cosby has died three, four, and five times, so they say on Twitter.

According to the hoaxers, he died in February, March and August of 2010. However, Bill Cosby also died in February and March of 2009. One tweet posted dates of Bill Cosby’s death hoax being March 29, 2007, April 1, 2007, June 23, 2009, and today, August 2, 2010.

 

After doing a Google look for for Bill Cosby Died, I found he died, March 24 and 25, 2010, and July 25, 2010. Including today’s Twitter trend, Bill Cosby has died at least 5 times in 2010.

Currently there are moreover a lot of Bill Cosbys in the world or an important person like to get off on live such a sick prank. Since I did the Google of Bill Cosby, the actor and comic is the only one that has came up as any orientation to a Bill Cosby dying.

Though the hoax of Bill Cosby’s death hasn’t hit Google trends as of 2:47 P.M. CST. Since I have heard nil on the news, CNN, Fox, or otherwise, Bill Cosby is still alive, kicking, and cracking jokes at the age of 73.

As citing my source for this article, I went back to Twitter for the “Bill Cosby Died” link. Another Twitter tendency came up “Bill Cosby ain’t dead” showed as a Twitter trend.

So folks until you hear it on the news or read it in the paper, don’t believe Bill Cosby is dead.