Bogus Websites

Maybe the FBI can help us determine whether this tongue-in-cheek Website constitutes harmless satire or a dangerous incitement to cruelty toward animals.

Just visit this Website and fill out an online form to win a free promotional case of beer from Anheuser-Busch or Miller Brewing Co. (depending on which version of this prank message you receive).

Ibuystrays.com purports to offer cash for unwanted pets to be resold to companies engaged in animal experimentation.

IDChip.com, which claimed in 1999 it was already implanting identification microchips in human beings, created a bit of apocalyptic hysteria in its time -- a cautionary tale for all aspiring Net satirists.

"Welcome to the National Driver's License Records Bureau Website," this site boasts, "where you can search our online database of over 220 million U.S. driver's license photos and driver's license information currently on file, absolutely FREE."

This controversial site purported to sell "high quality human meat" products, but, like the similarly provocative Bonsai Kitten Website, ManBeef.com was just an elaborate prank designed to push people's emotional buttons.

Wherein it is claimed that a cute, fluffy bunny named Toby will be cooked and eaten unless his owner receives $50,000 by June 30, 2005.

Text of Web hoax featuring a fake CNN news story claiming that rapper Snoop Dogg is converting to the Mormon faith.

Does this Website document one man's personal sacrifice for science, or is it an elaborate, artsy-fartsy put-on?