New fake chain e-mail

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.”

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

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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.