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A message indicating that the legal age for drinking will be increase to 23 years-old in the first week of February 2016, was circulated on the social media websites posted by a Facebook user on 9^th December 2015. A number of Facebook users started sharing this unauthentic news which was considered a joke, with their friends on Facebook and other social media websites.

It is important that posted message on the Facebook could become a breaking news for most of the news network channels such as CNN, BBC and other popular news channels. But, we found that this message was created by a prank website that publishes links which look like as real news and stories. Moreover, when any user clicks on the given link they are always redirected to a specific page which is indicating this news as a false story. We have noticed that same types of pranks have been circulated previously on the social media websites such as convincing the Facebook users that Taco Bell was closing and Pepsi Co. was discontinuing the production and distribution of Mountain Dew.