# Best internet pranks (non-harmful)?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-internet-pranks-non-harmful/106071
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 28, 2002, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-internet-pranks-non-harmful/106071 "2002-04-28T06:52:01Z")
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### Author:  [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2002, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-internet-pranks-non-harmful/106071/1 "2002-04-28T06:52:01Z")
I’m looking around for a few of the funnier pranks to play online, not excluding sites to sign people up to get strange things mailed to them via snail mail, random e-mail pranks etc…
Any good ideas?
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### Author:  [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2002, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-internet-pranks-non-harmful/106071/2 "2002-04-28T13:09:28Z")
I don’t know if this is a good idea or if the recipient would appreciate it, but there are many tourist boards for various countries (& states in the U.S.) that offer free visitor brochures by snail mail.
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### Author:  [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2002, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-internet-pranks-non-harmful/106071/3 "2002-04-28T13:24:53Z")
If I am not mistaken, using the US Post Office (in other words, snail mail) can get you in a great deal of trouble, Violet.
I’m not sure it is exactly a prank, but gathering some pictures and putting together a fake vanity website for the object of the practical joke might be a laugh. Be sure to give them all sorts of wild fetishes and bizarre affiliations. You can also photoshop them into compromising situations if the existing photos are too mundane.
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### Author:  [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2002, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-internet-pranks-non-harmful/106071/4 "2002-04-28T13:46:50Z")
[Google bombs](http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/googlebombs.htm) sound funny. Enter “Infinite Loser” into Google and, oh my, it’s your homepage that’s the #1 site!
You will need to be tech savy though.