Name: Coronavirus hoaxes spread online to take advantage of the pandemic
Uploaded: 2020-03-21T16:22:57.000Z
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and now to the growing number of hoaxes popping up online from false claims about treatments to fake headlines about celebrities having the virus.

Misinformation is spreading fast are well.

Reeve has more on the bad actors trying to muddy the waters and sometimes scam people as the number of Corona virus cases increases in the United States.

So to do Internet scams and hoaxes like this fake BBC Twitter account falsely claiming Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe had tested positive for Covert 19 Radcliffe says he was surprised when he heard the rumor.

Theo and after actor Tom Hanks announced he and his wife, Rita Wilson, had contracted the virus, Twitter blew up 20,000 plus retweets of this photo of Hank's quarantined with the volleyball, a nod to his character and cast away.

It's edited from a picture of Hank's at a 2015 New York Rangers game on Facebook fake posts offering tips from doctors like this one claiming to be from a Stanford hospital board member going viral, offering this self test for people telling them to hold your breath for more than 10 seconds, saying if they have no discomfort that basically indicates no infection that's been debunked, Stanford saying it did not come from them.

Officials are warning the public not to fall for fake cures peddled by some companies and individuals possibly trying to scam consumers with their claims.

Earlier this week, the FTC and FDA issued warnings to seven companies accused of selling unapproved or misbranded products, claiming they contrite her Cure Cove in 19 with Tease the central oils and colloidal silver.

Televangelist Jim Baker received one such warning for offering an $80 silver solution he advertised as a treatment for Corona virus, even though there is not yet unknown.

Vaccine and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones received a cease and desist letter for hawking unproven products from New York Attorney General Leticia James, one of several she and other states attorneys general have issued in recent days.

Two people, they say are selling unproven products thanks too well for that important report.

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