Latest "dying child" e-mail hoax
Howard Lake | 29 May 2001 | News
Rachel Arlington is the latest fictitious child subject of a fundaising e-mail chain letter hoax.
Rachel Arlington is the latest fictitious child subject of a fundaising e-mail chain letter hoax. The message suggests that simply passing on the e-mail to three other people will generate a 32 cent donation from AOL and ZDNET.
It’s another hoax. Read UK Fundraising’s coverage of this and other e-mail hoaxes on behalf of charities.
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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.