Penny Brown
Status: Hoax
These type of hoaxes have been circulating on the web for years, often with different names of the "lost" children. |
A Little Girl Dying
Status: Hoax
This chain letter preys on the sympathy of others. It is a hoax because what it claims is impossible. How can the American Cancer Society possibly know who you sent this to so they can donate 3 cents? Also, you donate to the Cancer Society, not the other way around. |
A Little Girl Dying Again???
Status: Hoax
Here is the same one again, fleshed out with a little more text and the name of a real doctor to try to make you think it is real. |
Little Girl Dying of Leukemia Hoax
Status: Hoax
The following hoax and picture are making the rounds of the Internet.
Please note that AOL and ZDNET cannot track e-mail and are not in the business of giving away money for chainletters.
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Little Girl With No Arms Hoax
Status: Hoax
This "dieing" girl has bone cancer. The hospital said they would appreciate it if you did not send cards there as they just have to return them.
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Jessica Mydek
Status: Hoax
Here is another sympathy chain letter similar to the "A Little Girl Dying" chain letter. According to American Cancer Society: "The American Cancer Society is greatly disturbed by reports of a fraudulent chain letter circulating on the internet which lists the American Cancer Society as a "corporate sponsor" ... |
Dave Matthews
Status: Hoax
This one combines both the Little Girl Dying and Tamara Martin hoaxes into one letter supposedly coming from Dave Matthews of the Dave Matthews Band.
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Anthony Parkin
Status: Hoax
Yet another example of a sympathy chain letter regarding a little boy's dying wish. |
Timothy Flyte Hoax
Status: Hoax
Another hoax claiming that someone will get a donation for every email sent.
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Jada Cohen Hoax
Status: Hoax
Another hoax claiming that someone will get a donation for every email sent.
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Kalin Relek Hoax
Status: Hoax
More donations for passing this e-mail on. It is supposed to have some encoding that lets it be counted by someone named BCC.
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Krystava Schmidt Warning
Status: Hoax
This message describes a real lost child in Minnesota. The child was actually lost in July of 1998 and the mother contacted police and sent out this message. The child was found two days later (see the Mounds View city net) but there was no way to stop this message.
If you get a message about a missing chil... |
Kelsey Brooke Jones Warning
Status: Hoax
Another missing child. From reports we have seen, this child was found playing at a neighbor's house within a couple of hours of being lost.
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Craig Shelford Make-A-Wish Request
Status: Hoax
Craig Shelford wanted to be in the record books but we suspect that he and the Make-a-Wish Foundation would really like it if everyone would stop sending them business cards. According to the Make-A-Wish foundation, Craig did have a request, but it was to another foundation. He wanted to receive greeting card... |
Aaron Russell Steinmetz
Status: Hoax
Aaron Russell Steinmetz was found in February 1999 but this message is still circulating.
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García Márquez Farewell Letter
Status: Hoax
Recently, the text of a poem called "La marioneta" has been passed around the Internet, as well as run in several Latin American newspapers. Attributed to García Márquez and believed to be a "farewell letter" to his friends, it was uncovered to really be the work of a ventriloquist named Johnny Welch. |
Penny Brown Hoax
Status: Hoax
The Penny Brown hoax claims to have come from a Monzine Jang in Calgary but if you call the phone number, you get a recording that says:
If you are calling about an e-mail about a missing girl, please do not forward it. She is not the daughter of Monzine Jang. Monzine has contacted the Calgary police and ... |
Chris Mineo Hoax
Status: Hoax
The snopes site has done some extensive checking on this one and found no evidence of any missing person report in New York or to the FBI for anyone by this name. |
WTC Sympathy Letter Hoax
Status: Hoax
As with all the others, no charity is going to give you 10 cents for forwarding an e-mail.
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Sabrina Allen Chain
Status: Hoax
Sabrina is a real missing person. You can see her picture on the Polly Klass Foundation website or on www.findsabrina.org.
What this hoaxter did was to take the information about Sabrina and change the phone numbers so they go nowhere. |
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