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Re: --- PLEASE READ - THIS IS NOT A JOKE

To: "Ken Streeter" <streeter@sanders.com>
Subject: Re: --- PLEASE READ - THIS IS NOT A JOKE
From: "Vic Whitmore" <vicwhit@octonline.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 11:36:52 -0500
Cc: "Triumphs" <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
Thank you, Ken for taking the time and interest to de-bunk this junk. I
heard the same story well over a year ago and it still keeps going around.
The same s**t happens with all the virus scams too.

Vic Whitmore
76 Triumph Spitfire
Thornhill, Ontario

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> From: Ken Streeter <streeter@sanders.com>
> To: Tom Wagner - Program Manager <tom.w.wagner@Central.Sun.COM>
> Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net; mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: --- PLEASE READ - THIS IS NOT A JOKE
> Date: Thursday, November 06, 1997 10:41 AM
> 
> Tom Wagner - Program Manager wrote:
> 
> > PLEASE READ THIS AND TAKE THE WARNING..
> 
> > hey ya'll  be very careful when you travel!!
>  
> >      This is one scary TRUE warning to everyone.  Please read and be
> >      careful what strangers you associate with..
> 
> > Subject: Lethal Scam --- PLEASE READ - THIS IS NOT A JOKE
> 
> <<< MESSAGE TEXT REGARDING KIDNEY HARVESTING HORROR STORIES
>     DELETED >>>
> 
> Please, before forwarding messages like this, attempt to
> confirm their validity.  A quick internet search on this
> revealed dozens of sites voicing that this is a hoax,
> including respected media sites who investigated the story
> with the Houston, Las Vegas, New York, and New Orleans police
> departments..
> (see below)
> 
> If you are not certain of something being a hoax, please
> do your very best to confirm the validity before forwarding
> the message to anybody other than your system administrator
> or local "hoax expert" to take a look at.  These hoaxes
> spread misinformation about many subjects, and feed on
> fear of the unknown.  Beware Chicken Little who proclaims
> "The Sky is Falling."
> 
> Some good hoax resources to use before forwarding these
> messages:
> 
> http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html
> http://www.delta-9.com/net47/myth/  
> 
> Some resources with specifics on "kidney harvesting:"
> 
> http://pharminfo.com/msblynx/legend238.html
> http://www.korrnet.org/donors/heist.htm
> http://wp4.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/navigator/nav0130.htm
> http://www.delta-9.com/net47/myth/kidney.html
> http://www.desert.net/tw/10-02-97/media.htm
> http://www.consumer-info.net/index12.htm
> 
> --ken
> VTR WWW Maintainer -- http://www.vtr.org
> 
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> Kenneth B. Streeter         | EMAIL: streeter@sanders.com
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