Bizarre email puzzles Urasoe City officials

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A suspicious email has been turning up in dozens of computer mailboxes the past few days, telling the recipients a child had been kidnapped.Urasoe City Police say they’ve been inundated by telephone calls reporting the email, which said “I’ve seen a child kidnapped by a small red car from a park in the Iso area.

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[DoctorP]

Ha Ha...this actually made it on the news Saturday as a news flash! Now it looks like it may have just been a chain letter?

[Tempestuous]

Craziness!
I know I often get emails or bulletins such as this, I try to check them against sites like snopes or truthorfiction, usually they are outdated and/or solved, occassionally they are just down right a piece of fiction.

[ness4k]

Probably just some kid trying to get some attention. But then again if it's real and every is thinking he's crying "wolf" that sure would suck.

[socalheart]

If this is a hoax, I hope they track and catch the original culprit of this email. It's very irresponsible to send out an email like this.

I've received various chain e-letters. If they seem viable, I look it up online for factualness. For example, I received one about a kid and Make-A-Wish foundation: where the kid would receive something for the number of times the e-mail was sent. Make-A-Wish doesn't sponsor chain letters (http://www.wish.org/about/chain_letters) of any kind since the one in 1989. Another I received was about the danger of leaving a plastic bottle in car and how it leaks toxins into the water. It doesn't. Cite 1 (http://www.cancer.ca/ccs/internet/standard/0,3182,3172_2087970719__langId-en,00.html). Cite 2 (http://www.cancer.org/docroot/MED/content/MED_6_1x_Reusing_Plastic_Water_Bottles.asp?siteare a=MED). These are mostly harmless hoaxes, but can lead to more serious ones as in the article.

[DoctorP]

I don't read anything that has FW: in the subject line...it goes straight to junk mail! And I can't stand people who send me crap in an email...that is one of my biggest pet peeves!