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		<title>Trash Baby Con</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While out walking in the city one day with some friends, a man heard a baby crying as he passed by an alley. The friends walked down the alley to investigate and found a newborn baby in a dumpster. They rescued the child and headed straight to the hospital with the infant to make sure it was ok. 
Authorities discovered shortly afterward that the child&#8217;s father was a criminal who lured victims into the alley by letting his baby cry and then attacked them when they were hidden from public view. That day his usual plan was thwarted when more than one grown man came down the alley.

Scotie Rainwater from Houston, Texas 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://urbanlegendsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/dumpster-288x300.jpg" alt="" title="baby in a dumpster" style="width: 288px; float: right; margin: 0 0 10px 20px;border: none;">While out walking in the city one day with some friends, a man heard a baby crying as he passed by an alley. The friends walked down the alley to investigate and found a newborn baby in a dumpster. They rescued the child and headed straight to the hospital with the infant to make sure it was ok. </p>
<p>Authorities discovered shortly afterward that the child&#8217;s father was a criminal who lured victims into the alley by letting his baby cry and then attacked them when they were hidden from public view. That day his usual plan was thwarted when more than one grown man came down the alley.</p>
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<em>Scotie Rainwater from Houston, Texas </em></p>
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		<title>New Message From SunTrust Online Banking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>urbanlegends</dc:creator>
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Dear SunTrust Online Customer,
We have recently determined that different computers have logged onto your Online Banking account, and multiple password failures were present before the login. It is now necessary to re-confirm your account information to us.
If this is not completed until November 16 2011, we will be forced to suspend your account indefinitely, as it may have been used for fraudulent purposes. We thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
To confirm your Online Banking records click on the following link: https://onlineserve.suntrust.com/Logon.aspx
Thank you for your patience in this matter.
SunTrust Online Banking &#038; Co. Security Center
2011 SunTrust Online Banking &#38; Co. All Rights Reserved



Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at SunTrust Online by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.
SunTrust Online never send their users emails requesting personal details in this way.
The anchor text ...]]></description>
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<p>Dear SunTrust Online Customer,</p>
<p>We have recently determined that different computers have logged onto your Online Banking account, and multiple password failures were present before the login. It is now necessary to re-confirm your account information to us.</p>
<p>If this is not completed until November 16 2011, we will be forced to suspend your account indefinitely, as it may have been used for fraudulent purposes. We thank you for your cooperation in this matter.</p>
<p>To confirm your Online Banking records click on the following link: https://onlineserve.suntrust.com/Logon.aspx</p>
<p>Thank you for your patience in this matter.</p>
<p>SunTrust Online Banking &#038; Co. Security Center<br />
2011 SunTrust Online Banking &amp; Co. All Rights Reserved</p>
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<li>Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at SunTrust Online by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.</li>
<li>SunTrust Online never send their users emails requesting personal details in this way.</li>
<li>The anchor text appears as a legitimate URL, but clicking on it will take you to a phishing website.</li>
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<i>Jeanie Hoyle from Texas</i></p>
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		<title>ABC-TV Owners WANT YOU DEAD!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>urbanlegends</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, March 23, 2010, at 8 A.M. Eastern Time, ABC-TV&#8217;s &#34;Good Morning America&#34; show presented an outrageous in-depth hit piece &#8212; a foolishly ambitious presentation of orwellian inverted logic &#8212; on the growing movement of healthy eating, or eating healthy. ABC-TV&#8217;s first exhibit was one of those in-the-home interviews with Kristie, a woman who had been on the brink of death due to healthy eating. ABC-TV launched their ludicrous lie from the pompous platform of psuedo-medical science, proclaiming that the habit of healthy eating is &#34;an obsessive-compulsive disorder.&#34; Mass media mind-twisters have learned to deceive more believably by employing pseudo-medical quackery to imbue false auras of authority and authenticity into whatever fraud they happen to be perpetrating on any given day of the week.
So, poor Kristie had been gravely afflicted with this &#34;obsessive-compulsive disorder&#34; of eating healthful foods. You know, she had been deceived, by a growing movement of ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://urbanlegendsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/healthyeating.jpg" alt="" title="healthyeating" style="width: 332px; float: right; margin: 0 0 10px 15px;" border="0">This morning, March 23, 2010, at 8 A.M. Eastern Time, ABC-TV&#8217;s &quot;Good Morning America&quot; show presented an outrageous in-depth hit piece &#8212; a foolishly ambitious presentation of orwellian inverted logic &#8212; on the growing movement of healthy eating, or eating healthy. ABC-TV&#8217;s first exhibit was one of those in-the-home interviews with Kristie, a woman who had been on the brink of death due to healthy eating. ABC-TV launched their ludicrous lie from the pompous platform of psuedo-medical science, proclaiming that the habit of healthy eating is &quot;an obsessive-compulsive disorder.&quot; Mass media mind-twisters have learned to deceive more believably by employing pseudo-medical quackery to imbue false auras of authority and authenticity into whatever fraud they happen to be perpetrating on any given day of the week.</p>
<p>So, poor Kristie had been gravely afflicted with this &quot;obsessive-compulsive disorder&quot; of eating healthful foods. You know, she had been deceived, by a growing movement of loudmouth health nuts, into becoming obsessed with raw foods, vegetarianism, and worst of all, she had been deceived into avoiding all those normal and beloved supermarket foods, those tried and proven staples such as genetically modified everything, and pesticide, synthetically-hormonized, antibiotic-laden, drug-laden, arsenic-fed, and dead-cattle-and-roadkill-fed beef, chicken, and pork.</p>
<p>But the happy ending of Kristie&#8217;s story was that she broke free from this unhealthy health trance, and has struggled back from her misguided self-destructive obsessive-compulsive mental illness, and now she is a happy well-balanced and healthy junk food consumer, rescued from the brink of healthy eating death. The ABC-TV Wizards of Oz then stupidly went on to overplay their scam with a scene showing Kristie, alive and well once again, joyfully digging into assorted boxes of junk foods. &nbsp;These imbeciles who run ABC-TV . . . this was their idea of a fairy tale ending to Kristie&#8217;s story.&nbsp; You know, like the handsome prince kissing awake the mortified Snow White, resurrecting her from her glass coffin. Here was the ABC-TV moguls&#8217; inane inversion of reality, designed to persuade viewers that nutritionless toxic food will rescue them from health food death. Kristie is shown, all smiling and contented, eating those beloved normal food items: sugar-coated coco-puffs and twinkies. Incidentally, what would you call such underhanded under-the-table advertising of commercial products within a supposedly non-commercial, educational TV report?&nbsp; &quot;Duplicitous&quot; would be an accurate term.</p>
<p>What, then, is the official name given by the ABC-TV moguls to this new *PHYSICAL* illness, which is now infecting the nation; or, more accurately, this bogus illness infecting the mentality of millions of gullible mesmerized victims of boob-tube reality inversion? The name of this new disease is not &quot;healthnutitis&quot;. Rather, the disease was today announced by the moguls of ABC-TV as &quot;ORTHOREXIA.&quot; And they declare that &quot;ORTHOREXIA&quot; is related to anorexia. You see, by piggybacking a new lie onto an accepted truth, charlatans project the delusion of truth into their quackery.</p>
<p>Anorexia is an uncommon actuality. Orthorexia is common quackery.</p>
<p>Now, after watching this maddening five-minute pseudo-medical pseudo-reality piece of Alice-in-Wonderland in Kristie&#8217;s kitchen and backyard, I figured: Well, they wouldn&#8217;t dare try to promote this hitlerian big lie any further, so, I figured that this must be the end of their skit.</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">&nbsp;&nbsp; But no! Next appeared a serious studio discussion with Dr. Marie Savard, a &quot;recognized authority&quot; on this worrisome new national plague called &quot;ORTHOREXIA.&nbsp; That was it, folks. I wished to avoid the frustration of silent rage, so I walked away, angrily determined to write this condemnation of the corporate killers&#8217; TV treachery against America&#8217;s naive victims of viewing.</p>
<p>Friends &#8212; everyone with a sense of moral responsibility: please get a video copy of this brazenly deceitful &quot;Good Morning America&quot; assault on the public&#8217;s healthmindedness &#8212; this sinister attempt to proclaim good for evil, and evil for good &#8212; healthy for unhealthy, and unhealthy for healthy. Do not let this bullet go over your heads, especially since this is only the first shot being fired in a new battle within an old war &#8212; a war long since waged by the viciously depraved power elite who are desperately trying to debilitate and dement the populations of nations, in preparation for their global genocide, which the global power elite have admitted to in their now-public &quot;National Security Study Memorandum 200&quot;. These global ruling elite are the matador, designing to confuse, disorient, and fatigue the bull before plunging the sword through it. Dear people: we and our families and our countrymen are their bull.</p>
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John DiNardo</p>
<p>UrbanLegendsOnline.com has confirmed the Good Morning America story appears at this link:  <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/orthorexia-obsession-healthy-foods-leads-eating-disorder/story?id=10173614" target="_blank">http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/orthorexia-obsession-healthy-foods-leads-eat&#8230;</a></p>
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		<title>The Letter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>urbanlegends</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Berlin, after World War II, money was short, supplies were tight, and it seemed like everyone was hungry. At that time, people were telling the tale of a young woman who saw a blind man picking his way through a crowd. The two started to talk. The man asked her for a favor: could she deliver the letter to the address on the envelope? Well, it was on her way home, so she agreed.
She started out to deliver the message, when she turned around to see if there was anything else the blind man needed. But she spotted him hurrying through the crowd without his smoked glasses or white cane. She went to the police, who raided the address on the envelope, where they found heaps of human flesh for sale. And what was in the envelope? &#34;This is the last one I am sending you today.&#34; 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://urbanlegendsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/letter_urbanlegend.jpg" alt="" title="letter urban legend" style="width: 276px; float: left; margin: 5px 20px 10px 0; border: none;">In Berlin, after World War II, money was short, supplies were tight, and it seemed like everyone was hungry. At that time, people were telling the tale of a young woman who saw a blind man picking his way through a crowd. The two started to talk. The man asked her for a favor: could she deliver the letter to the address on the envelope? Well, it was on her way home, so she agreed.</p>
<p>She started out to deliver the message, when she turned around to see if there was anything else the blind man needed. But she spotted him hurrying through the crowd without his smoked glasses or white cane. She went to the police, who raided the address on the envelope, where they found heaps of human flesh for sale. And what was in the envelope? &quot;This is the last one I am sending you today.&quot; </p>
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		<title>Goodbye Mother</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>urbanlegends</dc:creator>
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A young man is shopping in a supermarket when he notices that an older woman seems to be following him, staring at him in a sorrowful manner. He moves to the next aisle, trying to avoid her, but she follows, still staring. And when he finishes shopping, he ends up behind her in a long checkout line. Her grocery basket is full to overflowing; his contains just a few items. 
She keeps staring at him sadly, making him feel most uncomfortable. Finally she speaks up. &#34;Pardon my staring,&#34; she says, &#34;but you look exactly like my son, who died just two weeks ago.&#34; And she begins to sniffle as she repeats her claim that the young man perfectly resembles her late, beloved son. &#34;I mean, exactly like him,&#34; she moans. 
As the cashier bags her groceries at the front of the line, the woman asks: &#34;As a favor to a ...]]></description>
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A young man is shopping in a supermarket when he notices that an older woman seems to be following him, staring at him in a sorrowful manner. He moves to the next aisle, trying to avoid her, but she follows, still staring. And when he finishes shopping, he ends up behind her in a long checkout line. Her grocery basket is full to overflowing; his contains just a few items. </p>
<p>She keeps staring at him sadly, making him feel most uncomfortable. Finally she speaks up. &quot;Pardon my staring,&quot; she says, &quot;but you look exactly like my son, who died just two weeks ago.&quot; And she begins to sniffle as she repeats her claim that the young man perfectly resembles her late, beloved son. &quot;I mean, exactly like him,&quot; she moans. </p>
<p>As the cashier bags her groceries at the front of the line, the woman asks: &quot;As a favor to a grief-stricken mother, would you mind saying &#8216;Goodbye, Mom&#8217; to me as I leave? Somehow, it would make me feel so much better.&quot; </p>
<p>The young man gulps and agrees to her request. She gives him a tearful smile, waves and picks up her three heavy bags. &quot;Goodbye, Mom!&quot; he says, waving back. All the scene needs now to make it a perfect melodrama is violins welling up in the background &#8212; or maybe a little supermarket Muzak. </p>
<p>The young man, reflecting on his good deed, feels such a warm glow of self-satisfaction that he barely notices the cashier ringing up his own few purchases. Until, that is, the cashier tells him that the bill comes to $110. </p>
<p>&quot;There must be a mistake,&quot; the young man says, pointing at his single small bag. </p>
<p>&quot;Your mother said you&#8217;d be paying for hers too,&quot; the cashier says. </p>
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