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Description:  Email hoax
Status:  False
Circulating since:  May 1999
Analysis:  See below
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Kalin Relek Chain Letter

Contributed by Jenny Foreit, 05/12/99:

Subject: Pls Read & Sent!! THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.... (fwd)

PLEASE READ THIS, VERY VERY IMPORTANT

Hello, my name is Katie Relek, and I live in Alabama. Well, this is an important for you to read, bcuz 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 son, he's 7 years old, his name is Kalin. Well, he was playing on the street, infront of our House, and then from out of no where, this car came out and crashed into him! 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 son, was able to avoid death, but he is in very serious condition. Right now, as I speak, he's in the hospital, but the thing is, he has the serious injury to himself. 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, he'll donate 5 cents To the operation. THIS IS NO JOKE. We attached this type of encoding, that tracked how many times this messages was fowarded.

SO PLEASE, FOWARD THIS LETTER TO EVERY PERSON ON YOUR LIST. IT WILL BE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!!! THANK YOU SOO MUCH

Katie

Guide's note:   Another "heartfelt" plea for another "dying child" who doesn't exist. This hoax first cropped up in May 1999 and has been circulating ever since.

There is no "Kalin Relek." There is no special "encoding" that can track how many times an email has been forwarded. There is no such company as "BCC Inc."

Sad as it seems, this is someone's idea of a joke. See the links below for more examples of the same Internet idiocy:


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