冰岛女性因骗局遭遇突如其来的求婚潮
Iceland's government would like everyone to know that it will not pay foreign men $5,000 a Month if they marry Icelandic women.
冰岛政府想告诉所有人：如果有外国男子迎娶了冰岛女子的话，他们是不会每人每月收到5000美元的补助的。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是一个专门制造传播假新闻骗取点击量的博客，娶冰岛妹子就可以拿补贴这则谣言就是从这里传出来的。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.
该博客所发的帖子充斥着拼写和语法错误，并且基本不会为自己捕风捉影的报道引用任何消息来源。尽管如此，这则关于冰岛的新闻六月底在脸书上一经发布，还是收获了超过12万次的转发、点赞以及评论。
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.
据这条假消息称，冰岛现在的性别比例严重失衡，为此政府想出一个解决办法，即每个月为迎娶冰岛妹子的外国男人提供5000美元的补助，帮助他们移民到冰岛。Apparently, "priority in this resolution will go to North Africa's population."
很明显，"人口众多的北非将会被优先考虑。"The bullshit story has been republished by a handful of other sites and blogs, and widely shared on social media.
这则纯属扯淡的消息被许多网站和博客进行了转发，还被广泛的分享在社交媒体上。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上面网名为Sanxyra的一位冰岛女子在接受《BuzzFeed News》采访时表示，似乎就是一夜之间，她的许多女性朋友脸书上突然就多了很多好友请求。"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."
"有一些人开始就是调情，还有些上来就要求婚，"Sanxyra通过邮件表示。"妹子们大多也就是一笑置之，直接忽视。"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，冰岛没有男女比例失衡的现象，你甚至可以抽出一分钟来谷歌一下。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.
但是就算是这样，除了在脸书上寻找冰岛妹子的几千人之外，依然还有很多人掉入了陷阱当中。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.
一位发言人在接受《BuzzFeed News》采访时声称，在刚刚过去的几个月里，大约有30个人联系了冰岛外交部，咨询具体怎样才能拿到这5000美金。
