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Hoax-Slayer is brought to you by Brett Christensen.

Back in 2003, I created a website dedicated to debunking scams and exposing hoaxes. I called the site Hoax-Slayer.

Gradually, Hoax-Slayer grew from a single home page to a large site with thousands of separate web pages. The site was both my passion and my primary source of income.

By 2021, the site was no longer generating enough revenue to cover costs, and I was working full-time away from my computer. Moreover, I felt that it was time to focus my attention on other projects for a while. So, with an ache in my heart, I decided that the time had come to close down the Hoax-Slayer website.

But Hoax-Slayer has been part of my life for a very long time. I was reluctant to abandon the project completely. Certainly, there is still a need for continued commentary on the topics that Hoax-Slayer covers.

With that in mind, in early 2025, I decided to relaunch a new version of Hoax-Slayer as a Substack newsletter. As with the original website, the goal of the new Hoax-Slayer is to help make the Internet a safer, more pleasant and more productive environment by debunking email and Internet hoaxes, thwarting Internet scammers, educating web users about email and Internet security issues and combating spam and malware.

Hoax-Slayer is published weekly.