Webkinz are fashioned in the shape of fuzzy animals, can be played with in the real world by their young owners; but what sets these particular dolls apart from other collections of "plushies" (e.g., Beanie Babies, Ty Punkies) is that each Webkinz toy comes with a secret code that gives its owner access to the online Webkinz World where the purchased "pet" can also be created and then played with as an online version of itself. Webkinz owners buy toys, clothes and even furnishings for their pets' rooms in this cyber playland, paying for such purchases with Kinzcash, a virtual type of money gained by playing educational games on the web site or by spinning the site's "Wheel of Wow."
An email that just won't die says Webkinz are being killed off. Snopes.com says it's still a nasty lie. The email reads:
My children came home from school today, and all the talk in first and second grade was of some kind of webkinz malware. A black, red or yellow box appears in your webkinz world. If you click on the black box, a neopet pops out with a knife, and chops your webkinz' head off. The red box does the same thing. If you click on a yellow box, you loose all your webkinz possessions and "money". It sounds like a legend to me. But little kids are telling my kids, "This happened to me." Not sure what to think.
Don't worry... the email was and is untrue!
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