• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Scambusters
menu icon
go to homepage
search icon
Homepage link
  • Get Our Weekly Scambusters Newsletter
  • Advice
  • Avoiding Scams
  • Scammer Techniques
  • Identity Theft
  • Consumer Help
  • Phishing
  • Bank
  • Phone
  • Urban Legends
×

Other Urban Legends and Hoaxes 6

Urban legends

More urban legends and hoaxes: It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus' Virus Warning, and Snakes At Burger King

It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus' Virus Warning

VIRUS WARNING !!!!!!!
If you receive an email titled "It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus,'" DO_NOT open it. It will erase everything on your hard drive. Forward this letter out to as many people as you can. This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about it. This information was announced yesterday morning from IBM; please share it with everyone that might access the Internet. Once again, pass this along to EVERYONE in your address book so that this may be stopped. Also, do not open or even look at any mail that says "RETURNED OR UNABLE TO DELIVER." This virus will attach itself to your computer components and render them useless. Immediately delete any mail items that say this. AOL has said that this is a very dangerous virus and that there is NO remedy for it at this time. Please practice cautionary measures and forward this to all your online friends ASAP.


Snakes At Burger King

IMPORTANT: Please read and pass it on to anyone with child

About a week or so ago, a mother took her eager 3 year old son to Burger King for lunch. After they ate their lunch the mother said that the son could go and play on the playground for awhile since he ate all his lunch. She watched as the boy played in the tunnels, slide and in the ball-pit. The boy played for about 10 minutes when he started to whimper slightly. The mother asks the boy what had happened and he mearly replied, "Hurt mommy." The mother assumed that the little boy had banged his elbow or something while playing.

More Scam Reports:  Internet ScamBusters Press Room

They left to return home. A half and hour after they were home, the mother noticed some big red welts on the little boys arms and legs. Not being able to figure out what they were, the mother started to look at them closer. Could be red ant bites... she did not know. An hour later, the little boy died.

Come to find out, when returning to Burger King to see if there were red ants in the play area, in case the little boy had an allergic reaction. Burger King employees and herself discovered that there was a family of baby rattlesnakes living underneath the balls in the ball-pit area.

She has since found out that this happens more frequently than not. The snakes will crawl into the ball pit because it is dark and warm in there. She knows for a fact that another death has occurred because of this in South Carolina.

Please use caution when letting any children play in an outside play area of a fast food restaurant, this could happen anywhere. Burger Kings are now building their play area's inside the buildings for a safer environment.

 

« How to Sell a Car: Useful Tips
Scam Words Crooks Use to Trick You »

Primary Sidebar

Scambusters.org
Prohibited Circle

Don't Get Scammed!

Don't Get Scammed!

Scammers, crooks and criminals are constantly devising new ways to steal from you. 


Our FREE weekly ScamBusters Email Reports keep you up-to-date by showing you exactly what to do and what to avoid to keep you and your family safe.

Your privacy is safe with us

Search For Scam Info

Popular

  • real estate scams
    Buyer Beware: Real Estate Scams and How To Avoid Them
  • public assistance
    Public Assistance Scams: How to Protect Your Benefits
  • online gaming
    Online Gaming Scams Exploit Your Children – What You Need to Know to Protect Your Kids (And You!)
  • travel scams
    Travel and Vacation Scams: What You Need to Know

Footer

↑ back to top

About

  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions

Newsletter

  • Sign Up! for emails and updates

Contact

  • Contact

Copyright © 2024 Scambusters.org and Breakthrough Consulting, Inc.