<butt-ugly-fish>Urban Legend Zeitgeist: Still More Email Forwarding Hoaxes: Examples


The following is an example of the iWon.com hoax.

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Subject: DON'T DELETE!! iwon.com

If you got this email you're lucky (don't delete). You have just won a 100 dollars!....... You will only get the money if you send this to 5 or more people. A box will appear on the screen after you have sent it! It really works.... try it! Take 5 min. out of your time and send this...believe me you won't be sorry!!

0-2 people: $10
2-4people: $20
4-6people: $50
6-8people: $75
8-10people:$ 100!!!!!!!!

Keep on sending!!!!! iWon.com why wouldn't you?

The following is an example of the 'Slow Dance' hoax.

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This poem was written by a terminally-ill young girl in a New York Hospital.

It was sent by a medical doctor - Dr. Yeou Cheng Ma.

Please do what you can to help fulfill this young girl's dream by also reading what is in the closing statement AFTER THE POEM.

Slow Dance

Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask "How are you?"
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say "Hi"?
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.

PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO HELP THIS LITTLE GIRL ALL FORWARDED E-MAILS ARE TRACKED TO OBTAIN THE TOTAL COUNT.

Dear All,

PLEASE pass this mail on to everybody you know. It is the request of a special little girl who will soon leave this world as she has cancer.

Thank you for your effort, this isn't a chain letter, but a choice for all of us to save a little girl that's dying of a serious and fatal form of cancer.

Please send this to everyone you know... or don't know. This little girl has 6 months left to live, and as her dying wish, she wanted to send a letter telling everyone to live their life to the fullest, since she never will. She'll never make it to prom, graduate from high school, or get married and have a family of her own.

By you sending this to as many people as possible, you can give her and her family a little hope, because with every name that this is sent to, The American Cancer Society will donate 3 cents per name to her treatment and recovery plan.

One guy sent his to 500 people!!!!So, I know that we can send it to at least 5 or 6. Just think it could be you one day.It's not even your money, just your time!!!

PLEASE PASS ON AS A LAST REQUEST

Dr. Dennis Shields, Professor
Department of Developmental and
Molecular Biology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of
Yeshiva University
**** Morris Park Avenue
Bronx, New York 10461
Phone ***-***-****
Fax ***-***-****

The following is an example of the 'Jada Cohen' hoax.

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Subject: If you delete this you have to question who you are.

If you delete this...you seriously don't have a heart! This will only take a minute to read and forward. I have lost a child to multiple health problems. I believe that every living soul deserves a chance.

Dear Friends,

My name is Anna Cohen and I livein Albany New York. My daughter Liz recently had a baby girl named Jada 2 months early. Jada has many problems with her heart and lungs and medical costs have become extremely expensive. Jada was recently moved to a hosptial in California and the move was very expensive. A billionaire in California has promised to give $.05 for every time this email is forwarded.

If you wouldn't mind forwarding this to everyone on your list I would greatly appreciate it as well as my daughter and little Jada.

This could save a life. Please have a heart and forward this. Remember: What goes around comes around.

Thank you,

Anna Cohen

The following is an example of the 'RH Power' hoax.

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Urgent!!

We have rented an email tracker for the next 3 months! We at RH Power Inc. want to see how many people our email can reach in this time! If you forward this mail, you will be PAID MONEY!!!!

This email must be sent immediately upon receiving this for it to be counted. For every person you send this to you will receive $413!

For every person they send this to you will receive $139! I too Ryan LaGrange, Head Marketing Manager, thought this was a hoax until I did the same this and the next month got a check for $4612 in the mail!

*************************BONUS*******************************

IF YOU SEND THIS TO AT LEAST 15 PEOPLE RIGHT AWAY, A $25 GIFT CERTIFICATE TO OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE WILL POP UP ON YOUR SCREEN

PRINT OUT THIS--IT IS A GIFT CERTIFICATE!!!

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