Last night, reminding us of bad chain emails, texts were forwarded across London warning of a terror threat on the tube in the West End of London.
According to the messages, the Met police were calling officers back from holiday to start work at 4am this morning in preparation for the supposed attack.
The Met, who make a point to say their policy is not to comment on hoaxes, broke their usual silence to say it is ‘completely untrue’.
Divisional Commander of the London, South and East England British Transport Police Paul Brogden even came on twitter to tell people to “keep calm & carry on”.
Friday saw the terror alert level for the whole UK rise from ‘substantial’ to ‘severe’, the second highest level given out by the independent Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre and is seen as a reaction to ongoing crises in Iraq and Syria.
Many have speculated that the rise in the threat level is what caused the hoax to go viral.
Some took the 'alerts' with a pinch of salt...
Whilst others reacted in more dramatic fashion.
