tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post5797664287159972086..comments2024-02-24T05:11:30.646-06:00Comments on The Director's Desk: Urban legend circulatingTom Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03188041481309059441noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-64770412049268818622011-10-08T11:52:54.391-05:002011-10-08T11:52:54.391-05:00Your report is relavant to the NE area & glad ...Your report is relavant to the NE area & glad to find it to pass on to those who sent me the "email" on M23.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-59696196088432676162011-08-21T20:12:25.347-05:002011-08-21T20:12:25.347-05:00We also have had instances with missing child info...We also have had instances with missing child information passed on from person to person. No Law Enforcement agency listed no vital statistics just a picture. Please check snopes. The power of the internet is mighty and many want to help. We once called a local PD that one of these missing child flyers had been passed for several years only to be told yes the girl was missing but for only a few hours. However, we were also told that they actually had to hire someone to answer the phones for this case when ever one of those email campaigns went on because they would receive hundreds of phone calls. Not meant to slam anyone with those just please make sure that your information is from a creditable source and you have googled to see if the person is listed as missing. <br />Patty Beeken <br />General Manager Doenetwork<br />http://www.doenetwork.orgAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02969392106626763065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-54241654448314913592011-08-19T22:06:13.944-05:002011-08-19T22:06:13.944-05:00I never forward anything sent to me by another par...I never forward anything sent to me by another party with all of the E-mail addresses left in the message. Copy & Paste the part you want to send on. This prevents scammers from collecting huge numbers of E-mail addresses. OUTLOOK E-mail programs have been especially vulnerable to this in the past.<br />Gun NutAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-56076504987465425012011-08-18T08:46:00.553-05:002011-08-18T08:46:00.553-05:00Like Mike Burda, I've found that informing peo...Like Mike Burda, I've found that informing people that some of the things they forward on to others (even though their intentions are good) are simply hoaxes and seldom have any truth to them. I told them, that before they forward anything like that, they should check it out for validity, and I told them how they could do that with little effort. Most of them, including my mother, simply quit forwarding things to me altogether. People don't like it when they find out they've been duped, and they often take it out on the messenger.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10369138557977907215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-81957680603893186512011-08-18T08:18:46.964-05:002011-08-18T08:18:46.964-05:00I have often notified people that what they were f...I have often notified people that what they were forwarding was simply a hoax. I would use Snopes.com to alert people to the origin of the story. <br />I noticed that people would stop sending these urban legends. I assumed that the sender's behavior had changed. However, what I discovered is that they stopped sending to me ;-).<br /><br />As for the "take them to the police station", I believe that the UL started well before cell phones were common. The person forwarding this may have updated the gang reference to MS13 for currency but left the other elements of the UL alone.Cecilia Burdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10243134335663302688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-25358825069085296422011-08-18T07:47:29.472-05:002011-08-18T07:47:29.472-05:00The tip off to me is the word "lady." Mo...The tip off to me is the word "lady." Most people today refer to women as, well, women. Or females. Also, the "typo" in the first sentence is a dead giveaway that this is just a spammish hoax.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com