<butt-ugly-fish>Urban Legend Zeitgeist: Sealed with a Kiss: ATM Poisonings


Synopsis

Someone is poisoning ATM envelopes with cyanide.

See the warning here.

Is it true? No.
Why?
  • The phone number, location mentioned (Yonge & Eglinton), the phone number and the mention of the hospital all place the story in Toronto, Canada.
  • The phone number is not connected.
  • No Kimberly Clarkson is employed by the Toronto Department of Public Health.
  • No 'Crime Unit' exists within the Toronto Department of Public Health.
  • While the Women's College Hospital does exist, no Dr. Elliot is employed at the hospital.
  • Cyanide is not odorless.
When?July 1999
Comments

This hoax is possibly a variation on earlier LSD on payphones rumors.

See also
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