The following are possible scams. We will discuss some of the following scenarios. A demonstration on how to research a few of the problems will be given in order to draw conclusions about each possible scam. Students should be able to understand the importance of a sufficient key word search when addressing these problems. They should also be able to determine if the site they are investigating is fake itself.

Shark Photo of the Year: A shark is shown attacking a helicopter. The photo was taken near the South African coast during a military exercise by the British Navy.

"A kid ate 6 bags of pop rocks at a party. He then proceeded to drink a 6-pack of Pepsi. The two substances combined in his stomach and exploded, killing him horribly. That's why pop rocks were taken off the market in the early eighties."

A Starbucks store near the World Trade Center charged ambulance officers $130 for a case of bottled water needed for victims of the terrorist attack?

"The file jdbmgr.exe is actually a dangerous Microsoft Windows virus and deleting it will prevent it from spreading."

An Israeli woman accidentally swallowed a fork after inserting it down her throat in order to remove a cockroach.

A woman attempted to enter the USA illegally by hiding in a car's dashboard. She was discovered before the car could get across the U.S.- Mexico border.

The parasite Leishmaniasis lays its eggs under the skin of its victims causing disfiguration.

This photo was taken on the Earlham Road in Norwich. Underground chalk mines caused a massive sink-hole to appear in the road.

Camel spiders in Iraq are dangerous. They have been known to latch on and inject you with a local anesthesia so you can't feel it feeding on you.

This strange fish with a man-like nose and human teeth was caught in Lake H.B. Robinson by a little boy from Detroit named Aaron Krendell.

This is just one of a series of photographs showing a Pennsylvania pub's 6-pound hamburger offering. With all the fixings, this burger weighs nine pounds.

This is a picture of a pen that is being developed in order to project a virtual keyboard and monitor. Users should be able to type and store information in the pen. It could be on the market in the near future.