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Hoax
Usually transmitted through e-mail, a hoax contains a message to send the alert to as many others as possible. Though they are not viruses, hoaxes may cause work disruption through false scares or provoke a Denial of Service through their proliferation by overloading the e-mail system.
source: D. Schweitzer, 2003, Incident Response: Computer Forensics Toolkit
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