BUT; Be warned about sending money!
Comment:
Qian Hongyan AOL Money For Forwarding Hoax
Outline
Circulating slide presentation about Qian Hongyan, a child in China that lost both legs in an accident, claims that AOL will donate 10 cents to help fund prosthetic legs for the girl each time the message is forwarded.
Brief Analysis
Qian Hongyan is a real person and she indeed lost both legs in an accident in the year 2000. The images in the presentation are genuine. However, the claim that AOL will donate money to Qian Hongyan when the message is forwarded is an outright lie. Sending on the message will do nothing to help Qian Hongyan. Any message that claims that money will be donated to help a sick or injured child just for forwarding an email is sure to be a hoax.
Given the manner in which they conduct business, they can already afford to cure half the people in the world in her sad situation, and still own their own corporate jets!! I don’t have them on my computer anymore! Be Carefull!! Donate to any known, legally safe charity and you’ve accomplished the same thing. I’d look into this…
Qian Hongyan AOL Money For Forwarding Hoax
Outline
Circulating slide presentation about Qian Hongyan, a child in China that lost both legs in an accident, claims that AOL will donate 10 cents to help fund prosthetic legs for the girl each time the message is forwarded.
Brief Analysis
Qian Hongyan is a real person and she indeed lost both legs in an accident in the year 2000. The images in the presentation are genuine. However, the claim that AOL will donate money to Qian Hongyan when the message is forwarded is an outright lie. Sending on the message will do nothing to help Qian Hongyan. Any message that claims that money will be donated to help a sick or injured child just for forwarding an email is sure to be a hoax.
Compliments of: http://www.hoax-slayer.com/
The people generating them are the people who generate your need to cough up money to protect your computer!!
I did wonder about this myself, why don’t they just give her money now???
I see this, and my heart goes out to this little girl. That being said, yea, I don’t trust any of those “forward this e-mail” things. All of them rather remind me of the classic letter from the Nigerian ‘Prince’.
Dickiebo, I’m honored!! Ya popped me up top! As for the continuing conversation about “giving”, my minister once said, “Give what you can to your local community – foodbank, senior citizens, local returning military, however you define it – and let the millionaires and the government and the larger organizations do the rest!”
Give what you can to your local community
I have even stopped doing this now, as most of the sods are asylum seekers and immigrants!