# Breast Cancer Research Stamp – no e-mail hoax

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/1998/12/01/breast-cancer-research-stamp-no-email-hoax/
- Published: 1998-12-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Seasoned Internet users can spot an e-mail hoax a long way off. If a message arrives
suggesting that you can get something for nothing or can help a charity save a child’s
life simply by sending a business card, then you can be pretty sure it is a hoax.
So if you received an e-mail message about a postage stamp being sold for 40¢ instead
of the usual 32¢, with the 8¢ being donated to breast cancer research, you might
be forgiven for disbelieving it.
Fortunately, the story is true. The US Postal Service
has printed 200 million of the stamps following the Breast Cancer Research Stamp
legislation that President Clinton approved in August 1997. The $16 million that
could be raised if all the stamps were sold will help fund breast cancer research
work at the National Institute of Health and the Department of Defense.

 * **[Wild domain name](https://fundraising.co.uk/1998/12/20/wild-domain-name/)**(
   20 December 1998)
 * **[British Heart Foundation's site reviewed](https://fundraising.co.uk/1998/12/20/british-heart-foundation039s-site-reviewed/)**(
   20 December 1998)
 * **[Free access to online fundraising information](https://fundraising.co.uk/1998/12/25/free-access-online-fundraising-information/)**(
   25 December 1998)

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