Internet Hoax Analysis

Mike Sandman's Telecom Service has a website trying to sell their strange telecom services out of Chicago. At first glance, the site looks iffy and poorly put together, making me think that it could possibly be a fake. When I looked up this website on google, I found that if a man named Sandman tries to get you to check out his page at www.geocities.com/vienna/6318, dont go to it because it is a virus. But as for, Mike Sandman's Telecom Services, the site seems to pan out and is a legitimate source for this off the wall type of service. 


Save the Tree Octopus at first glance looked like a legitimate website that was trying to raise awareness for a species of tree octopi, but after further investigation, I found out that this site was a fake through a site called sqworl. This site was designed to point out and raise awareness for fake websites that could possibly lead to viruses.


RYT Hospital has a website that looks very well designed and communicates their modern day miracles to anyone who visits this site. It looks like a great place to contact if you or a loved on has a debilitating illness, but again, after further investigation, this website happens to be hoax. http://www.shsu.edu/~lis_mah/documents/TCEA/hoaxtable.html notes that this is an illegitimate website and even the website's disclaimer page says that they are not a real hospital and that any medical advise gained from their page should not be taken seriously.


The Dog Island looked fake right off the rip. It advertises a large island where dogs can get away from the stress of urban living and the outside world. From Snopes.com, there is actually a place called Dog Island somewhere off the northern panhandle of Florida, but by no means is it a resort for dogs and that this site was created by college students studying contagious media.  


Museum of Jurassic Technology has a very mysterious vibe to it. I did not even want to click on to the portal to the website because of how little information was on the cover page. When I looked on http://monkeyfilter.com/link.php/6058, I read that this website was used by a teacher to try and confuse her students into thinking that this was a real site. I did not trust this site from the get go and my gut was correct in this circumstance. 


Intractable Hiccups  sounded like a myth right off the bat by saying that by rectally messaging the patient, they cured his hiccups, but with further research I could find no proof that this website of Abstract was false. As far fetched as it seems, the credentials and  the National Library of Medicine seem to be a good source of information.


The Bigfoot Field Research Organization is an informative website about the on-going search for Bigfoot/Sasquatch. Although many believe Bigfoot to be a 400 year old hoax, this website seems to be a real source of information. It advertises remaining search parties for the remainder of 2012, talks about possible myths and facts around the story of Bigfoot, and by the research I did on the website itself, it looks like the Bigfoot Field Research Organization is the real deal.


The Ova Prima Foundation is a website dedicated to spreading the knowledge that the egg did indeed come before the chicken. In researching this website for authenticity, I came across a site that takes a very close look into the Ova Prima Foundation and concludes that it is not a real or trustworthy site. Dr. Forsythe, the main doctor on the page was crossed checked to reveal that the name must be an alias, bringing up no real person and leading the search back to the Ova Prima website. The dates of foundation do not match up (one saying 1876, and another saying 1887).It's authenticity remains in question because the material on the website cannot be supported by any independent research.


While Pawnee Indiana's website might look good at first glance to someone who has not seen the television show "Parks and Recreation", I on the other hand immediately recognized that this was a fake website. Pawnee is an entirely made up town, such as Scranton, Ohio from the office, therefore, this website is nothing more that a fun thing that the television show did for its' viewers.


As far-fetched as the Bowlingual Dog Translator sounds, it was easy to figure out that this is a real invention. The Bowlingual Translator is a walkie-talkie like device that can tell the emotional state of your pouchy as well. It also comes with a body language check list and a health check to continually monitor your dogs' health. This video shows how the device works, but as of right now, I can only find devices that translate into Japanese.