冰島女性因騙局遭遇突如其來的求婚潮
Iceland's government would like everyone to know that it will not pay foreign men $5,000 a month if they marry Icelandic women.
冰島政府想告訴所有人：如果有外國男子迎娶了冰島女子的話，他們是不會每人每月收到5000美元的補助的。The rumour appears to have started with The Spirit Whispers, a blog that promotes fake international news stories meant to go viral.
The Spirit Whispers是一個專門製造傳播假新聞騙取點擊量的博客，娶冰島妹子就可以拿補貼這則謠言就是從這裏傳出來的。The posts are riddled with spelling and grammar errors, and rarely cite any sources for their fantastical reporting, but the Iceland story has gotten more than 120,000 shares, likes, and comments on Facebook since it was published in late June.
該博客所發的帖子充斥着拼寫和語法錯誤，並且基本不會爲自己捕風捉影的報道引用任何消息來源。儘管如此，這則關於冰島的新聞六月底在臉書上一經發布，還是收穫了超過12萬次的轉發、點贊以及評論。
According to the hoax, Iceland has a gender imbalance so severe that the government's solution is to pay foreign men $5,000 a month to relocate to the country and marry an Icelandic woman.
據這條假消息稱，冰島現在的性別比例嚴重失衡，爲此政府想出一個解決辦法，即每個月爲迎娶冰島妹子的外國男人提供5000美元的補助，幫助他們移民到冰島。Apparently, "priority in this resolution will go to North Africa's population."
很明顯，"人口衆多的北非將會被優先考慮。"The bullshit story has been republished by a handful of other sites and blogs, and widely shared on social media.
這則純屬扯淡的消息被許多網站和博客進行了轉發，還被廣泛的分享在社交媒體上。One Icelandic woman — a streamer on Twitch who goes by Sanxyra — told BuzzFeed News that, seemingly overnight, many of her female friends were being inundated with friend requests and messages on Facebook.
在Twitch上面網名爲Sanxyra的一位冰島女子在接受《BuzzFeed News》採訪時表示，似乎就是一夜之間，她的許多女性朋友臉書上突然就多了很多好友請求。"Some men started off with flirting, others went straight to proposals," Sanxyra said via email. "Most of the girls just laughed about this, and ignored the messages."
"有一些人開始就是調情，還有些上來就要求婚，"Sanxyra通過郵件表示。"妹子們大多也就是一笑置之，直接忽視。"For the record, Iceland does not have a gender imbalance, as even a minute of googling will show you.
需要指出的是，冰島沒有男女比例失衡的現象，你甚至可以抽出一分鐘來谷歌一下。But that hasn't stopped lots of people from falling for the hoax. In addition to the thousands of men who have been trying to find Icelandic mates on Facebook.
但是就算是這樣，除了在臉書上尋找冰島妹子的幾千人之外，依然還有很多人掉入了陷阱當中。In the last few months, about 30 people have contacted Iceland's Ministry for Foreign Affairs for more information on how to get paid for their services, a spokesperson told BuzzFeed News.
一位發言人在接受《BuzzFeed News》採訪時聲稱，在剛剛過去的幾個月裏，大約有30個人聯繫了冰島外交部，諮詢具體怎樣才能拿到這5000美金。
