IDK
08-16-2005, 06:56 PM
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-08-16T172618Z_01_EIC662726_RTRIDST_0_ODD-BRITAIN-HOAX-DC.XML
LONDON (Reuters) - British police launched a probe Tuesday after the family of one of the victims of last year's tsunami disaster received a hoax e-mail claiming their relative had been found alive in a Thai hospital.
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London police described the bogus e-mail, purporting to come from a non-governmental organization called "Missing Tsunami Victims" and sent to at least one family stating their loved one was still alive, as "despicable."
"The message is clearly distressing for the recipient and the (police) would like to assure anyone receiving this message that it is a hoax," a spokesman said.
i normally try not to let others' actions physically raise my temperature or anger me as much as this has... but hell, why the f*** would some jack*** do this to a greiving family?
LONDON (Reuters) - British police launched a probe Tuesday after the family of one of the victims of last year's tsunami disaster received a hoax e-mail claiming their relative had been found alive in a Thai hospital.
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London police described the bogus e-mail, purporting to come from a non-governmental organization called "Missing Tsunami Victims" and sent to at least one family stating their loved one was still alive, as "despicable."
"The message is clearly distressing for the recipient and the (police) would like to assure anyone receiving this message that it is a hoax," a spokesman said.
i normally try not to let others' actions physically raise my temperature or anger me as much as this has... but hell, why the f*** would some jack*** do this to a greiving family?