Urban Legend Zeitgeist: Yet Even More Email Forwarding Hoaxes: Example

The following is an example of the 'Rachel Arlington' hoax.

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Hi I am a 29 year old father. Me and my wife have had a wonderful life together. God blessed us with a child too. Our daughters name is Rachel and she is 10 years old. Not long ago did the doctors detect brain cancer in her little body. There is only one way to save her and that is an operation. Sadly we don't have the money for the operation. AOL and Zdnet have agreed to help us. The only way they can help is this: If you send this email to other people AOL will track this email and count how many people get it. Every person that opens this email and sends it to at least 3 people will give us 32c.

Please help us.

George Arlington.

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