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Friday, December 1, 2006
A couple of days ago I received a email containing a plead for help to pay child surgery. The email instructed the receiver to distribute it to receivers friends and that with every email the original sender will receive 3 cents on its account all meant for the surgery of a young baby. Attached were some really disturbing pictures of a burned baby. Just how low will some people sink to distribute email that serves no purpose it amazing.This is simply a Sympathy Hoax. According to HoaxBusters a Sympathy Hoax "describe some person or company that has had something terrible happen to them such as an accident or terminal disease."
This is not the first such letter that I received and each time I replayed to all recipients that this is SPAM and that these kind of email are more disturbing than "regular" spam that ends up in my inbox and that they are nether interesting or have any value. It is met to fool people into patting them self on the back thinking that they did a good deed by forwarding this email. After all, the reward for done work is exceptional. All someone has to do is pres a few buttons to feel good. There is no actual work involved, no money lost and no inconvenience. There are no drawback that are usually associated with charity work.
It takes only a few second of persons time and save allot of time if people just stopped and think things thru. Even if common sense is telling that this is a Hoax and a SPAM there is a site where anyone can check the validity of the email. The site is called PurPortal.com. It searches the web and some well established repositories like HoaxBusters, Inboxer Rebellion, CERT and UrbanLegends on About.com. Another good site to check for Hoaxes ans other Internet related scum is Symantec site.
It is quacks like SPAM and looks like SPAM it most be SPAM.
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