> Subject: FW: Fwd: SAD WAL-MART STORY
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> DO NOT DELETE!!!!! YAHOO IS TRACKING THIS!!!!!!!!!!
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> Sister and her brother were inside a new Wal-Mart.
> The sister at eight
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> years of age and the brother seventeen years of
> age. The brother was
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> wanting to buy a present for his little sister
> beacuse her birthday was
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> coming up. As they were about to leave, she had to
> go to the bathroom.
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> Her brother showed her where the restrooms were
> and he began looking at
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> earrings he thought she might like for her
> birthday.
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> As he started to buy the earrings, he saw people
> running from the end of
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> the store screaming and yelling with fear. In the
> next moment he smelled
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> smoke and saw flames. He ran to his little sister
> as fast as he could but
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> when he got to the bathrooms the fire was already
> blazing. He knew he had
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> to leave to make sure help was coming. When the
> firetrucks arrived it was
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> already too late. They assured the family that
> there were no survivors.
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> Two days later the family got a call from the
> hospital. They told them
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> that they had someone there by the name of Sandy .
> They asked, "How did
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> you get this number?" The hospital replied that
> the little girl had a
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> purse clutched in her little hand with a card that
> gave her name and
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> number on it. The family drove to the hospital to
> see their little angel.
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> While they thanked God for her survival, they
> noticed her arms were burnt
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> so severely they were both amputated and her face
> was burned and she
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> needed surgery. The family didn't have any health
> in surance and very
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> little money to cover the bill. This family needs
> our HELP!
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> NOTE:
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> Everytime someone forwards this story, YAHOO will
> donate $2.00 towards
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> the hospital bill.
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> DO NOT DELETE! YAHOO IS TRACKING THIS!
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> Please forward this as "Sad Wal-Mart Story". God
> knows who you are.
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> Karma knows it could happen to you
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> $2.00 off the hospital bill, that is a lot for two
> seconds of your time".
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> God knows who you are
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> Subject: FW: SAD WAL-MART STORY... DO NOT DELETE
> THIS EMAIL CAN HELP A YOUNG CHILD
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> Body: We are not able to tell you which Wal-Mart
> it is and the real names
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> of the people because of the privacy. DO NOT
> DELETE!!!!! YAHOO IS
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> TRACKING THIS!!!!!!!!!!
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> Snopes
http://snopes.com/
It's the first place I go when I get a forward that I am curious about. There are a lot of ways to spot a hoax email; here are some clues:
1. If the message screams DO NOT DELETE, or THIS IS TRUE, that's often a sign of a hoax.
2. Anytime people are offering to give away money just for someone sending or forwarding an email, that's false.
3. Any story that is unsubstantiated, like the one you've offered as a sample. No names, no city, no dates, just vague references -- those are commonplace in hoax emails.
Find all three of those in one email, and you should have yourself trained well enough to set off your inner "hoax alarm."
Note: There are variations... sometimes people will say "Samantha Robinson from Altoona PA..." but still, these start to have a recurring ring to them that becomes evident rather quickly. The savvy email user should learn in a matter of a couple of months to sniff a scam before they even reach the third line.
Snopes is a great site... don't just read whether or not a story's false, but read the write-ups as well. They include a lot of good pointers for conditioning your hoax sensors. Yahoo is not that generous....or that technologically sophisticated. no, it is fake |
