Read This - It's a little scary

sweetvee

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I got this from a good friend, his sister sent it to him because she's the one it happened to.

"This guy from work just stopped by my desk with a e-mail printed out and folded up. I don't know him too well but the message in the e-mail was not a forward, it was just an e-mail from a friend. He printed it for me b/c he didn't have my e-mail address. I'll retype what it said b/c I don't know any other way to convey the info but I think it is a little scary. Here is what the guy at work handed me.

Subject: Stay Out of Malls on 10/31

"Hi All - I think you all know that I don't send out hoaxes and don't do the reactionary thing and send out anything that crosses my path. This one however, is a friend of friend and i've given enough credibility in my mind that I'm writing it up and sending it out to all of you. My friend's friend was dating a guy from Afghanistan up until a month ago. She had a date with
him around 9/6 and was stood up. She was understandably upset and went to his home to find it completely emptied. On 9/10 she received a letter from her boyfriend explaining that he wished he could tell her why he had left and that he was sorry it had to be like that. The part worth mentioning is that he BEGGED her not to get on any commercial airlines on 9/11 and not to
go any malls on Halloween. As soon as everything happened on the 11th, she called the FBI and has since turned over the letter. This is not an email that I've received and decided to pass on. This came from a phone conversation with a long-time friend of mine last night. I may be wrong, and I hope I am. However, with one of his warnings being correct and devastating, I'm not willing to take the chance on the second and wanted to make sure that people I cared about had the same information that I did."

It could be a hoax, you know how people send out hoaxes just to scare everyone. How could every mall be threatened and if it were true don't you think some national warning would have went out. But, who knows. Thought it was worth sending out the info just in case."
 
Better to be safe, than sorry.

I don't know if its a hoax or not, but are you willing to take the chance? not I! I can shop another day. :)
 
I won't be going to the mall on Halloween!!!!

;)

That's not b/c of terrorists but b/c I'll be busy handing out candy and taking my kids for a walk around the neighborhood in their home-made train costumes!!

;)

Hoax or not, glad I read it!
 
You have no choice...

take it straight to the police. Tell them everything you know and let them decide what to do for the good.

A few days ago I posted that I thought the terrorists would now switch to small town America, Shopping Malls and entertainment/tourist areas.

They've made their initial inpact, now they'll be out for maximum disruption and imstilling maximum fear in the public's mind.

Classic terrorist tactics...

So report what you've got...



:(
 
That's cool...

But if sweetvee didn't have access to the internet or didn't come to Literotica and hadn't heard about the hoax anywhere else then she would have no choice but to go the authorities.

Unless of course the two links are hoaxes.

Musn't forget bin Laden has millions of dollars at his disposal. Setting up two simple web sites to allay fears about a supposedly "hoax" e-mail would be simple...

Thinking about it again. Still go to the police...

Let them decide..

:(
 
p_p

One is at about.com which has been around for years and has hundreds of hoax and urban legends debunked there.

The other is from the Security Information Center. See above.

Both of these pages I've had in my bookmarks for several years, and I use them to debunk hoaxes that people send me in my e-mail. Unless bin laden founded about.com with the intention of making people think this was a hoax, while spending all the time and energy debunking the hundreds of other hoaxes and urban legends on the site, not to mention the hundreds of other categories at about.com ...... do you see what I'm getting at?
 
Glad to hear that it's a hoax, because I work in a mall and will probably be working on the 31st.
 
Yep...

...just being cautious.

As we all have to be.

Anyway thanks, I've now put the links in with my Favourites...

:)
 
This was on the world news last night.... its a hoax.. FBI knows about it.
 
We've had 'em over here too

We've had some similar hoaxes over here in the UK.

There's one going around about "a girlfriend of a friend of a friend of a friend" who lent 60p to someone at Sainsburys (a chain of supermarkets). The person was from Afghanistan and said to stay away from the Rugby matches (go Wales !!!), Marks and Spencers and London.

It has to be a hoax as I've heared several different versions of it going around now.
 
POKERMAN

great job guy....just seen this thread and was going to post a reponse about it being a hoax and to check out About.com.

glad to see not everyone is getting into a panic.
 
I got that e-mail yesterday. Two sentences in I knew it was a hoax. Three minutes on line was all it took to confirm that it was a hoax. THIS is why I tell my friends to never forward me anything.
 
It's important to check these things out before posting them. All it takes is a few minutes to avoid unecessary panic. That's not too much to ask is it?
 
Thank god for all you wonderful cynics who convince me that these really aren't true. I hear these things and they scare the crap out of me, even if I don't necessarily believe them 100%. All right, I'm kinda gullible, I admit it.:D
 
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