Variant #2: 2001 Halloween Terror Attacks on Malls
Netlore Archive: Friend-of-a-friend rumor circulating via forwarded email claims there may be terrorist attacks on malls on Halloween, Oct. 31, 2001.
Description: Email rumor
Circulating since: Oct. 2001
Status: False
Analysis: See main page
Example:
Email text contributed by Becky D., Oct. 10, 2001:
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Subject: FW: PLEASE READ - VERY IMPORTANT - PLEASE I feel funny passing this on but you never know... This is true - please read and listen. My friend Jill was here today and her brother works down in Princeton with a girl who had been going out with an Arab man for about a year. They had a date on 9/6/01 and he never showed up. She went to his apartment and it was emptied out. A few days later on 9/8 or 9/9, he sent her an e-mail. It said that he wished he could tell her why he left but he could not. He also told her NOT TO FLY ANY COMMERCIAL PLANES ON SEPTEMBER 11 AND NOT TO GO TO ANY MALLS ON HALLOWEEN. This is not a joke. He was living in the Princeton area. She turned this information over to the FBI after September 11. Jill is a very good friend of mine and I know her brother. He knows this girl personally - THIS IS NOT A JOKE. I don't know if anything will happen, but I don't want to take any chances. Just in case, please don't go to a mall on Halloween - and tell everyone you know. Love, |
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