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Have phone scammers recorded "Yes" statements to fraudulently authorise payments?
A number of sources claimed that phone scammers would trick people into saying "Yes" on the phone, record it, and use that to fraudulently authorise payments.
Here is a January 2017 Fortune magazine article:
Scammers are increasingly using this…
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Is this "ancient Hebrew leather manuscript" seized by police in Turkey authentic?
Some time ago there was news of a manuscript stolen from a Syrian museum, seized from smugglers in Turkey. There are many other articles about this as well.
Turkish police seize ancient manuscript from smugglers —Suspects in central Kırşehir…
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Is the US Army Field Manual 30-31B a forgery?
Wikipedia describes content of the US Army Field Manual 30-31B:
It identifies a strategy of tension involving violent attacks which are then blamed on radical left-wing groups in order to convince allied governments of the need for…
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Did United 93 passenger Jeremy Glick call with a cellular phone on 9/11?
In the "September 11 - The New Pearl Harbor" documentary (1:46:45), a claim is made that Jeremy Glick used a cellular phone to make a roughly 20-minute phone call to his wife and mother-in-law. While it is known that he did make a phone call, the…
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Is this 1977 “thank you” letter from Joe Biden real?
The following letter (dated June 30, 1977) claiming to be from Joe Biden is currently floating around social media. Is this real?
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Is "US Military Intelligence report EW-Pa 128" real?
The Red House Report — Wikipédia describes "US Military Intelligence report EW-Pa 128":
Is this actually a declassified document, or a clever fake?
US Military Intelligence report EW-Pa 128
Enclosure No. 1 to despatch No. 19,489 of Nov. 27, 1944,…
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Did the drugs against COVID-19 whose EUA was revoked lead to a huge decline in hospitalization rates in Florida?
The FDA recently revoked the emergency use authorization for Regeneron and Eli Lilly. In this article, Ron Desantis claims that these medications led to “a huge decline” in hospitalization rates in Florida. He also claims that the EUA was revoked…
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Is this Singapore school letter about exams real?
This is doing the rounds on Facebook:
A school principal in Singapore sent this letter to the parents before the exams
Dear Parents
The exams of your children are to start soon. I know you are all really anxious for your child to do well.
But,…
user22865
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Is this document describing pedophile logos an authentic FBI document?
This WFTV report references an FBI document:
A symbol purportedly called the "GirlLover logo" found on FBI
documents from 2007 looks similar to the symbol O’Kelly found on the
toy she bought.
According to the documents, the logo symbolizes a…
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Was a copy of Bobadilla's lost report on Christopher Columbus found in a Spanish archive in 2006?
As claimed in The Guardian.
A transcription of the document is apparently available on JSTOR here, the section "Pesquisa Del Comendador Francisco de Bobadilla".
Has the document been confirmed as genuine?
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