†• Urban Legends - Emails •†

AOL Charging for IMs - The email:
Subject: AOL is taking away instant messenger!

Dear America Online and Instant Messages users
Our america online staff is planning to take away im by July 14th 2000. If you want to keep our im free of charge, send ths email to everyone you know. it will be used as a petition. EAch person you send this to counts as one "signature" If this petition gets 100,000 "signatures they will keep AOL im. If they do not recieve 100,000 votes you will have to pay 15.00 to have im.(per month) If you don't care about about this then please for everyones sake help out a little. THank you for your time and consideration and please help Aol beat thier vote.

Killer Comet - The email:
Subject: Possible earth impacting asteroid: 2001PM9



Sorry to be the one to break this news, but a new Earth Impactor Asteroid has just been announced by NEODys, and this one...

1) Is very big

2) Is on the same order of magnitude [and] impact probability as 2001AV43

3) Will possibly impact the Earth in the very near future!

Let me introduce you to Asteroid 2001PM9.

a) Discovered on August 11, 2001 and observed up until August 16th. Its orbit was computed and posted today.

b) It's Absolute Magnitude suggests it is anywhere from 530m to 1.2km in diameter...that's up to nearly 3/4 of a mile in diameter!

c) It will make a relatively close pass to within .089AU on May 10, 2003. The first possible impact date calculated and the one with the highest probability of occurring is set for June 17, 2005. If it misses Earth on that pass there are another 28 possible impact dates calculated between 2005 and 2079.

Dear Readers, following are some facts that ought to set you right back in your chair, grow you some grey hairs - or cause a certain amount of lost sleep.

If 2001PM9 impacts the Earth...

1. It will be the kind of impact event that only happens once every 25,000 to 500,000 years.

2. It will impact with a force of somewhere between 100,000 to 800,000 Megatons

3. It will be somewhere between a "Large Sub-Global Event" to a "Nominal Global Effect Threshold" Event.

4. It is estimated that an impact of this order would result in the loss of anywhere between 500,000 and 1.5 Billion lives (depending on exactly where it hit).

Ladies and Gentlemen, if and when 2001PM9 impacts the Earth...

a) If it hits in the Ocean tsunamis could reach "global scale".

b) If it hits land it could completely destroy an area the size of California

c) Could raise enough dust to affect the climate and freeze crops.

d) Create a crater up to 30 km in diameter (18 miles across).

e) Cause ozone layer destruction on a global scale.

If you worried a little about 1998OX4 and 2001AV43...be very concerned about this one.

We really need to push the button on this one (get the word out and get a lot more information).

Breast Cancer Funds The email:
Subject: One click donates $1-It Only Takes A Moment

Another good one!!

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Yahoo is donating $1 for every click on the pink ribbon at this site. It's on the left side in the margin.

Please pass this on to your friends and family. Every dollar counts.
Thanks.
http://health.yahoo.com/

Breast Cancer Funds 2 The email:
Subject: Fw: URGENT -- Tuesday, October 24th

On Tuesday, October 24, the NFL is sponsoring Breast Cancer Awareness Day. On that day (and that day only) every time a user logs onto NFL.com and visits the "NFL for Her" page, the NFL will donate $5 directly to the Susan G. Komen Foundation (up to $50,000).

That's five dollars for EACH and EVERY user that logs onto the website on Tuesday, Oct. 24. And all you have to do is log on. There is no further action required. If you want to really make a difference, you can foward this message on to everyone in your e-mail address book!

This is a wonderful opportunity to join in the fight against breast cancer and make a very real difference with just a tiny amount of effort. The link is: http://www.nfl.com/nflforher/komen/index.html.

COMMENTS: Both of the Breast Cancer Funds are TRUE, BUT outdated.

Columbine High Emails The emails:
1.) Hello All! I'm sure by now you've all heard the tragic news by now about whats going on in Littleton, CO. As of right now, there are 25 confirmed dead CHILDREN and faculty and over 30 critically injured in yet another (High) school shooting spree. I'm asking you, as fellow members and friends to please pray and keep in your hearts these poor families of the victims. Yes, you may consider this a 'chain letter'. Please follow in my lead and sign your name to the bottom of this mail, and FWD. it to EVERYONE you know. Maybe one day it will make it to one of them, so that they may know that they are in our hearts and prayers. I really appreciate this you guys.

Thank you and may God be with ALL of you always.

COMMENTS: Most people would think the that confirmed 25 dead children is the biggest part of the chain letter. It's really not that big of a deal to us in Colorado. I went to a school in the same county as Columbine, and I had gotten lucky and gotten out of the school before they went on lock down. I went to work. I turned on the radio in my "class" it was daycare, and I heard the news, at first they believed the death toll to be almost just that high, also they thought there was about 13 killers in the school.

2.) FW: Prayer for Columbine High
To everyone who reads this:

My name is Jayson Martin from Littleton, Colorado, I would like for anyone who reads this to please write their name down. I would like to send prayers out to my friends who were in Columbine H.S. I would like everyone to please say a prayer for the safety of everyone who was involved in this terrible tragedy. it is something that has hurt me today as well as my friends, I'm grateful for my safety and their safety. Please Forward this to as many people as you can, let us all come together and pray that this tragedy ends soon. Thank you. ***Copy this letter, add your name and forward it to as many people as you know. thank you.

3.) Subject: kids of colunbine
This is a special forward.
This forward is dedicated to all of the students of Littleton, Colorado.
For every person this forward is sent to The City of Denver, Colrado will give .25 cents to the town of Littleton. Now this may not seem like much to you, but as soon as this gets around it all starts to add up. Please. If you just take the time to send this it will help the victims of the terrible incident that happened today. Send this to as many people you can and start building a new hope for the students..

Sgt. Alan Davis
The City of Denver

Prayer Request The email:
Subject: Prayer Request

Dear Friends and Family,

The prayer for this Southern Baptist Missionary needs to be forwarded to everyone you know that can pray. Pray diligently and then send it along today!!!!

Ezekiel David Allen is a young missionary on the Chiang Mai,Thailand mission team. He is critically ill with an unknown parasite and apparently WILL DIE WITHIN TWO MONTHS unless there is an intervention by the Lord.

Please help create a global blanket of prayer for David, Michelle, and their four-month old daughter, Brianna.

From: David Allen:

My condition is serious now. The body is beginning to break down because I have no more fat or nutrient reserves. My diet consists mostly of vegetable broth, Gatorade, and saltine crackers. I tried homemade bread a few weeks ago and ended up in the emergency room. I am in constant pain and have taken painkillers regularly. The severe diarrhea has continued for seven weeks, and I have been in the emergency room five times.

In the last three days, there have been sharp pains in my kidneys so they are running tests to see if my kid neys are infected. So far, eight doctors have not been able to diagnose the parasites. One lab in Dallas thought they had a positive diagnosis (a rare parasite called cryptosporidium), but the Public Health Center of Disease Control in Houston said it was an incorrect diagnosis. They have found agents, but no one has ever seen them before or can identify them. One is a parasite, and the other looks more like an amoeba.

One of the effects of the parasites is to prevent my GI from absorbing nutrition. The CDC in Atlanta is three to six months behind, so they cannot help in time. My doctors are trying everyone else. They are in contact with one of the top infectious disease doctors in Thailand and several of the experts here in the states. I believe that the pictures of the parasites are to be passed around until someone can identity them.

I am not doing well. I feel like I am in a very dark valley right now. I have been praying for so long for help with no response that I have become discouraged in prayer. This is a first for me in my life. Michelle and my parents are being a tremendous support for me, but they are having a hard time seeing me suffer so much. My prayers now are very elemental "Father, save me!" But the pain continues each day, and I continue to lose weight.

Please pray not only for my body but for my spirit. I have not known fear like this before. I don't want to be fearful, and I don't need to be fearful because I am confident in my salvation. I think my fear is related more to the thought of not being with my wife and the new baby. This was the happiest time of my life before I became sick

David Allen

We are encouraging everyone we know to lift up David and his family before the Lord of Lords. Please forward this message to those you think will join us in this global chain of prayer.

Thanks,
INTERNATIONAL MISSION BOARD, SBC
Southern Africa Regional Office
PO Box A-614, Avondale


Life is good because God IS.

P.S. Please send this out to all your friends, sisters, brothers, and other relatives.

COMMENTS: David is a real person, his story is real. But what is not, it is still circluating. He has gotten over 7,000 emails, his parents were getting phone calls from morning to evening. David is raplidly returning to health now.

Abercrombie & Fitch The email:
Hello everyone! My name is Amber McClurkin. You have probably heard about the email from Gap offering free clothes to anyone who will forward the message on. Well, I am the founder of Abercrombie and Fitch, and I am willing to make a better deal with you. You will receive a twenty-five dollar gift certificate for every five people you forward this to. This is a sales promotion in order to get our name our name out to young people around the world. We believe this project can be a success, but only with your help. Thank you for your support !!
Sincerely,
Amber McClurkin
Founder of Abercrombie and Fitch

COMMENTS: Well, Amver McClurkin is not the founder of Abercrombie & Fitch, the over 100 year old company...

AOL/Intel Merger The email:
I'm an attorney, and I know the law. This thing is for real. Rest assured AOL and Intel will follow through with their promises for fear of facing an multimillion dollar class action suit similar to the one filed by Pepsico against General Electric not too long ago. I'll be damned if we're all going to help them out with their e-mail beta test without getting alittle something for our time. My brother's girlfriend got in on this a few months ago. When I went to visit him for the Baylor/UT game she showed me her check. It was for the sum of $4,324.44 and was stamped "Paid In Full". Like I said before, I know the law, and this is for real. If you don't believe me you can email her at jpiltman@baylor.edu . She's eager to answer any questions you guys might have. Thanks, Dirk. I know I'm already in.

Moore, Dirk wrote: If you don't do this, you must be really, really dumb.
From: James M. Schwarnica

This is not a joke. I am forwarding this because the person who sent it to me is a good friend and does not send me junk. Intel and AOL are now discussing a merger which would make them the largest Internet company and in an effort make sure that AOL remains the most widely used program, Intel and AOL are running an e-mail beta test. When you forward this e-mail to friends, Intel can and will track it (if you are a Microsoft Windows user) for a two week time period.

For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay you $203.15, for every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, Microsoft will pay you $156.29 and for every third person that receives it, you will be paid $17.65 Within two weeks, Intel will contact you for your address and then send you a check. I thought this was a scam myself, but a friend of my good friend's Aunt Patricia, who works at Intel actually got a check for $4,543.23 by forwarding this e-mail.

Try it, what have you got to lose????

AOL/Intel Merger 2 The email:
Subject: Fwd: FW: Could It Be Real????????
Subject: Real Money

I'm an attorney, and I know the law. This thing is for real. Rest assured AOL and Intel will follow through with their promises for fear of facing an multimillion dollar class action suit similar to the one filed by Pepsico against General Electric not too long ago. I'll be damned if we're all going to help them out with their e-mail beta test without getting a little something for our time.

My brother's girlfriend got in on this a few months ago. When I went to visit him for the Baylor/UT game she showed me her check. It was for the sum of $4,324.44 and was stamped "Paid In Full". Like I said before, I know the law, and this is for real. If you don't believe me you can e-mail her at jpiltman@baylor.edu. She's eager to answer any questions you guys might have.

This is not a joke. I am forwarding this because the person who sent it to me is a good friend and does not send me junk. Intel and AOL are now discussing a merger which would make them the largest Internet company and in an effort make sure that AOL remains the most widely used program, Intel and AOL are running an e-mail beta test. When you forward this e-mail to friends, Intel can and will track it (if you are a Microsoft Windows user) for a two week time period. For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay you $203.15, for every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, Microsoft will pay you $156.29 and for every third person that receives it, you will be paid $17.65. Within two weeks,Intel will contact you for your address and then send you a check. I thought this was a scam myself, but a friend of my good friend's Aunt Patricia, who works at Intel actually got a check for $4,543.23 by forwarding this e-mail.

Try it, what have you got to lose????

There are about a million of these email hoaxes, I could go on for days...

Missing Boy The email:
My name is Amanda Steinmetz
I live in Summerfield, Florida.
My 3 1/2 year little boy is missing.
His name is Aaron Russell Steinmetz.
He was last seen with his father
Michael Anthony Steinmetz
on December 19, 1998 at 3:00pm
leaving a family wedding.
They are traveling in a 1991 Chevy Astro Van
Solid black with dark black window tint license plate # SFK47Q.
I am asking that you help me by forwarding this letter to
everyone you know and by posting his picture in your area.
If you have seen or suspect anything suspicious,
PLEASE contact the Marion County Sherriff
at (352) 732-9111 as soon as possible.
Thank you for your support and cooperation
Amanda Steinmetz

Dying Girl The email:
Hi, my name is Amy Bruce.I am 7 years old, and I have severe lung cancer from second hand smoke. I also have a large tumor in my brain, from repeated beatings The doctors say I will die soon if this isn't fixed, and my family can't pay the bills. The Make A Wish Foundation, has agreed to donate 7 cents for every name on this list. For those of you who send this along, I thank you so much, but for those who don't send it, what goes around comes around. Have a Heart, please send this.

To see Make A Wish's responce on chain letters go Here

Dave Matthews The email:
Subject: tHiS iS SoOoOo SaD!!!!! If DAVE MATTHEWS can send this on then so can you!
HI! This is Dave Matthews from The Dave Matthews Band (duh). I got America Online just a little while ago and my screenname will be sent to you if you pass this on. I get a list of the people who send this to at least another 5 people online and my secratary will send all of you my screenname. I go online at least once a week. The reason I am doing this is because this little girl needs our help and I thought that I could use my fame to help out this sick little girl.
Ok Listen I Just Spent 13 hours Getting Screen Names Just So that I Could Help a Little Girl So Read The bottom
This isn't a chain letter
Ok you guys..... 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 at that. This little girl has 6 months left to live, and as her dying wish, she wanted to send a chain 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. But 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 this to 500 people !!!! So, I know that we can send it to at least 5 or 6. Come on you guys.... And if you're too damn selfish to waste 10-15 minutes scrolling this and forwarding it to EVERYONE, (more than one person): you're one sick puppy, and two: just think it could be you one day....and it's not even your $money$, just your time. I know that ya'll will impress me !!!! I love ya'll !!!!!
Love,
Greg Harduk
<< Hello. My name is Tamara Martin and I have severe lung cancer due to second hand smoke.This chain was a final attend to get me healthy again.Every letter sent gets 6 cents.Please send this to 10 people. (by the way for those who take 2 minutes to send this, what comes around goes around. >>

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