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Description:  Email hoax
Status:  False
Circulating since:  Sept. 1999
Analysis:  See below
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Fatima Hareez Chain Letter

Contributed by Karen McBride, 10/18/99:

Subject: If u delete this u have no heart!

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 09:57:54 -0500

Hello, my name is Tariq Hafeez, and I live in Chicago. Well, this is an important for you to read, because I really need your cooperation. It is so imporant for you to know about what I want to tell you. Ok, let me start.

Ok, a couple of days ago, my daughter, she's 6 years old, her name is Fatima. Well, she was playing on the street, infront of our house, and then from out of no where, this car came out and crashed into her! I was sooo frightened and angered at the driver, but it ended out to be, that the drivers brakes had been shot, and he wasn't able to stop. Luckily, my daughter, was able to avoid death, but she is in very serious condition. Right now, as I speak, she's in the hospital, but the thing is, she has a serious injury. It's internal bleeding, and it's bad to say, but we don't have any health insurance, and we don't have enough money to pay for the operation.

So I made a deal with a company, BCC inc. And they told me, for every person that will foward this email, they will donate 3 cents To the operation. THIS IS NO JOKE. We attached encoding, that tracks how many times this message is fowarded. SO PLEASE, FOWARD THIS LETTER TO EVERY PERSON ON YOUR LIST. IT WILL BE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

Guide's note:   Poor little Fatima Hareez would be heartbroken to learn that her benefactor, "BCC Inc.," is giving her a raw deal. Kalin Relek, a 7-year-old from Alabama who is not only dying from exactly the same injuries but whose parent mispells exactly the same words, is getting a whopping 2 cents more per forwarded email!

Is that fair? No, but life is tough in the big city.


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