IMPORTANT: ALL PLEASE BEWARE!

[Cornish Terrier]

To everyone who is a member and anyone visiting this forum please be very aware of an email I have just received via my personal email server.

This email purports to be from the 'MakeAWish Foundation' and is requesting support for an 'ill child'.

It comes with a note saying that 7 cents will be donated to the Foundation for every person this message is forwarded to.

Here is the 'sob story':-

Hi, my name is Amy Bruce.

I am 7 years old, and I have severe lung cancer . I also have a large
tumor in my brain, from repeated beatings. Doctors say I will
die soon if! this isn't fixed, and my family can't pay the bills.

The Make A Wish Foundation, has agreed to donate 7 cents for every time
this message is sent on.


For those of you who send this along, I thank you so much, but for
those who don't send it, what goes around comes around. Have a
Heart, please send this.



Please, if you are a kind person, send this on. PLEASE HIT FORWARD
BUTTON NOT REPLY BUTTON.


YOUR'S FAITHFULLY,



AMY BRUCE

[e-mail]

I BECAME SUSPICIOUS for a couple of reasons:-

1. A 7-year old child with severe Lung Cancer
2. This same child with a large Brain Tumor as a result of 'severe beatings'.
3. Parents cannot afford the bills

Whilst not impossible the question must be asked - "How does a seven-year old child have 'severe lung cancer'.
Also, how does this same child have a 'large brain tumor due to severe beatings'.

One would have to suspect the involvement of the parents in this last case yet it is reported help is required because the parents cannot pay the bills.

WELL - I decided to log on to the 'makeawish' foundation web-site here in Australia and, guess what!

THERE IS A WARNING ABOUT THIS VERY SAME MESSAGE REGARDING AMY BRUCE.

So I ask ALL to be extremely cautious.

An ANGRY 'CORNISH TERRIER'

[marktrengove]

I get these things all the time. Most come from Nigeria with urgent messages saying the are £mmmm waiting for me if I send my bank details etc.

Also watch out for ones purporting to be from your bank telling you to log onto their website via a hyperlink, which takes you to a dummy website. You enter your details innocently and, hey presto, have your identity stolen.

Trash the lot before reading. I'm afraid that having your e-mail address exposed on the web allows such types to crop and send this SPAM.

delete, delete delete!

[Zenobia]

All fraudulent emails such as the ones described above, as well as the ones telling you that you have won a lottery (but need to send money to claim it); email purporting to be from Ebay about a problem with your account etc., etc. can be forwarded to:

[e-mail]

I send all my spam there each day.

Hopefully there the seriously fraudulent spams will be collected and investigated.