The Internet loves fabricating stories about people’s deaths (just ask Nate Dogg) and yesterday was no exception as pranksters on the Information Superhighway falsely killed off two more people. The first victim was Cobra Starship singer Gabe Saporta. A death certificate and bogus MTVNews.com story were posted online, stating that Saporta had died in a bus accident that also injured his Cobra Starship bandmates. But as any eagle-eyed Cobra Starship fan could figure out, the death certificate posted yesterday claimed Saporta died August 12th, which is today, so either the coroner was clairvoyant or the death report was fake. Saporta took to his band’s MySpace page to simply say “I’m not dead.”

Musicians have had to deal with fake death reports ever since the Beatles snuck “Paul is Dead” into “Strawberry Fields Forever,” but this next one is going too far: Internet-born reports claimed that a car crash took the life of Lil Wayne’s 8-year-old daughter, Reginae. The rumor spread so quickly that soon afterward Weezy’s MySpace page was bombarded with condolence messages. Thankfully, the news of Reginae Carter’s death was false, as confirmed by Tha Carter’s own record label, Universal.