# New fake chain e-mail

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/04/29/new-fake-chain-email/
- Published: 2001-04-29T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The latest chain e-mail allegedly on behalf of a charity is a maudlin poem claiming
to be an online campaign by the US non-profit Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD).
It is of course a fake.

The latest chain e-mail allegedly on behalf of a charity is a maudlin poem claiming
to be an online campaign by the US non-profit Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD).
It is of course a fake.

Read [MADD’s statement](http://www3.madd.org/aboutmad/fullfaq.cfm?ID=17) on the 
hoax, but note that they’ve decided to start collecting the signatures “as proof
of the overwhelming support for our cause.”

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