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The Viagra Oyster Email Hoax
Status: News
George May had a clever idea: Let oysters soak in a solution of Viagra for a while, and then sell them as Viagra Oysters. Of course, Pfizer is objecting to this use of its drug, and food-safety officials don't like the idea of selling purposefully contaminated oysters. But still, May is confident he's got a successful product on his hands, and his idea has received quite a lot of media attention. So it pleased him, but didn't surprise him, when he received the following email from Google's corporate offices: "Congratulations! The Viagra oyster story is the fastest growing internet story since 9/11 with over 700,000 links in 24 hours."
Except, of course, Google doesn't send out congratulatory letters of this kind. If they did, they'd constantly be congratulating whoever was the latest internet-celebrity-of-the-day. The email was the work of a prankster who forged the "from" field. Or was it? Perhaps May cooked up the email himself to gain a little more media attention for himself. He's denying this allegation, but it seems plausible to me since he's the one benefitting from the hoax -- and because his first reaction on receiving the email was to call the media and tell them about it.
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Categories: Email Hoaxes Posted by Alex on Thu Jun 07, 2007 |
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That doesn't sound real appetizing...
Posted by Josh in Texas on Fri Jun 08, 2007 at 07:07 PM
I read about this and it is interesting!~
Posted by BlogMack on Sat Feb 02, 2008 at 12:36 AM
Interesting topic. Thanks for posting
Posted by Kal in Bulgaria on Sun Feb 17, 2008 at 11:58 AM
Not unpleasant. Author, write more!
Posted by Andrew in Russia on Fri Aug 15, 2008 at 03:19 AM
cool.Thanks.....
Posted by ilen in uk on Wed Oct 29, 2008 at 05:06 AM
I order my stuff from tabletscheap*org real fast shipping and real cheap rates
try it yourself
Posted by Tolik in Russia on Thu Jan 21, 2010 at 07:32 AM
try it yourself
Viagra has changed my relationship with my wife. I thought I was going lose that battle. Not with the magical blue oval!
Posted by sam in miami fl on Wed Jun 09, 2010 at 05:58 PM
Viagra change my life ^^
Posted by shorty in Tasik Hanyir on Wed Oct 13, 2010 at 10:43 AM
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