Interesting point…

Interesting point…

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  1. Mysteryshopper says:

    Re: Interesting point…
    I haven’t come across that many frauds though they are undoubtedly easier to find on the internet. Since it is usually not that difficult to spot a fraud – it tends to be ‘too good’, they try top hard – I don’t see it as a big problem.

  2. Ian Topham says:

    Re: Interesting point…
    I must admit we get a lot of e-mails and for a time we were bombarded by one person imparticular who sent in fake pictures of aliens almost on a fortnightly basis.  He would also target various other websites and magazines to see who would post or publish his stuff.  I found it funny when some of these editors would reply to him pointing out he was a fake and they didn’t want to hear from him again, copying everyone on hs mailing list into it.

    This probably is not the right place to say this and it relates to some recent e-mails, but if an alien spacecraft is hovering above your shed and the aliens are telepathically telling you that they want a member of the Mysterious Britain & Ireland team to phone you so that they can negotiate directly with us, through you, then I can state now for the record that we are not interested.  We do not negotiate treaties with aliens!!

  3. Mysteryshopper says:

    Re: Interesting point…
    I think I know who you mean with the emailed fake photos going to lots of websites!

    You raise a good point about why contact this website rather than the government. Of course, it’s possible he’s already tried them and got no response.

  4. Mauro says:

    Re: Interesting point…
    Yes, there are these obvious frauds but there are also more subtle ones. A friend and I were sent a report about a very large shark sighted from a merchant vessel… no big claim and back then we believed it could well have been just an ordinary species, just a bit on the "large" side. We dug deeper and were able to find most of the infos supplied were reliable: shipping company, route… yet when we set out to discover more about the ship itself we hit a wall. It had never existed, nor a ship carrying a similar name had ever served for that shipping company; in fact the only ship carring a similar name had been broken up in Iran a decade earlier. It was a very sophisticated hoax (it used some infos you cannot get at the local library and back then the Internet still wasn’t such a huge hit) but for what purpose? There isn’t money to be made and my friend immediately made it clear he would refrain from even speaking about the thing in public until we finished investigating. Perhaps the perpetrator/s hoped we wouldn’t take this too seriously and rush it into print. Where I do not know since neither of us works for any magazine or periodical…
    Yes Ian you are right: there are some serious "nuts" out there!

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