# Hoax chain e-mail appeal from child victim of September 11 attacks

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2002/07/14/hoax-chain-email-appeal-child-victim-september-11-attacks/
- Published: 2002-07-14T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

A new chain e-mail has appeared from “Jasmine,” whose father was killed in the World
Trade Center attacks last year and whose mother needs expensive surgery following
her injuries. 
“So the Red Cross said that.. for every time this email is fwd we
Will get 10 cent for my mom’s surgery. So please have a heart and fwd this to everyone
you know .”

Sound familiar? It’s all untrue. But you can be certain that the American Red Cross
will start receiving annoying enquiries about this hoax. The sender explicitly reminds
recipients to forward copies of replies to her e-mail address “SO THAT THE REDCROSS
PEOPLE CAN COUNT THE FWDS.”

Read _Help Jasmine’s Mommy_ at BreaktheChain.

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