{"id":2955,"date":"2019-04-06T19:34:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=2955"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"Thanks-Mr-Frog,-I-Owe-You-One!","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=2955","title":{"rendered":"Thanks Mr Frog, I Owe You One!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>It&#8217;s strange how seemingly insignificant incidents can have a profound effect on your life. Back in 2002, I was still pretty new to computers and the Internet. So, when I got an email urgently warning me about a dangerous computer virus lurking in a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153very cute screensaver of the Budweiser Frogs&#8221;, I dutifully sent it off to everyone in my address book. After all, so I thought at the time, the information had been announced by none other than software giant Microsoft and the message implored me to send it on to everyone I know.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the warning turned out to be just another silly virus hoax, like many others that have circulated before and since. A kind contact politely let me know that the \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/budweiser-frogs-virus-hoax\/\">message was a hoax<\/a>. The experience got me intrigued \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and a little embarrassed \u00e2\u20ac\u201c so I started researching any suspect email forwards that came my way before I sent them on. Inevitably, quite a few turned out to be hoaxes and I was able to let people know the truth about them.<\/p>\n<p>After a while, friends and family began sending me emails to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153check&#8221; for them. The concept for Hoax-Slayer began there. In 2003, I started a Yahoo email discussion group that focused on Internet hoaxes and scams. Soon after, I created an early version of the Hoax-Slayer website as a support site for the Yahoo group. Later, I closed the group to concentrate on the Hoax-Slayer site and newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, Hoax-Slayer consumes a great deal of my time and the project is very important to me. So, if I hadn&#8217;t received that silly old virus hoax, perhaps my life might have been quite different today. But, I&#8217;m really glad that I did get that email. I love what I do!<\/p>\n<p>So, all in all, thanks, Mr Budweiser Frog, goodonya, mate! (The beer&#8217;s not bad either!)<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/thanks-mr-frog-i-owe-you-one\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/thanks-mr-frog-i-owe-you-one\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s strange how seemingly insignificant incidents can have a profound effect on your life. Back in 2002, I was still pretty new to computers and the Internet. So, when I got an email urgently warning me about a dangerous computer virus lurking in a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153very cute screensaver of the Budweiser Frogs&#8221;, I dutifully sent it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoax-inggris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}