3 Cents for an operation (aka 3 Cent E-Mail Tracking)

Last Updated: 10/07/2000 10:13 AM

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Urban Legend		False
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This is a hoax. As usual these hoaxes are targeted at those that are not yet cynical enough ;-) There is no such way to track e-mail (yet) it's just a hoax.

Subject: Please Read this it is so important We ARE sereous
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 20:23:30 EDT
From: . . .

Hello, my name is Tariq Hafeez, and I live in Chicago. Well, this is
an important message for you to read, because I really need your
cooperation.

It is so imporant for you to know about what I want to tell you. Ok, let
me start.

Ok, a couple of days ago, my daughter, she's 6 years old, her name is 
Fatima. Well, she was playing on the street, in front of our house, and
then from out of nowhere, this car came out and crashed into her! I was sooo frightened and angered at the driver, but it ended out to be, that the drivers brakes had been shot, and he wasn't able to stop. Luckily, my
daughter was able to avoid death, but she is in very serious condition.
Right now, as I speak, she's in the hospital, but the thing is, she has
a serious injury. It's internal bleeding, and it's bad to say, but we
don't have any health insurance, and we don't have enough money to pay for the operation that will save her.

So I made a deal with a company, BCC inc. And they told me, for every 
person that will foward this email, they will donate 3 cents to the
operation. THIS IS NO JOKE. We attached encoding, that tracks how many
times this message is fowarded. PLEASE, FOWARD THIS LETTER TO EVERY PERSON ON YOUR LIST. IT WILL BE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! >>
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