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Howard Lake | 29 April 2001 | News

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 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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Find out more from Break the Chain. and read UK Fundraising’s coverage of charity-related e-mail hoaxes.





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