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TURIN

24th Feb 2005 21:38

Lost girl in tsunami

I have received an email with a photo attached claiming to be from someone trying to find the identity of a young girl lost during the Asian tsunami.

It is one of those "send to everyone you know" type.

Anyone know if it is genuine or just a waste of bandwidth.

Ta.

amanoffewwords

24th Feb 2005 22:11

Waste of bandwidth definitely - it's been round the houses and back.

Charles

25F	25th Feb 2005 01:09

Snopes.com is a good place to check this sort of thing:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/tsunami/lostgirl.asp

In general, you should never "forward to everyone you know". 99% of the time it's a waste of time, bandwidth, etc. I'm still waiting for the 1% that isn't.

Globaliser

25th Feb 2005 08:44

Those are exactly my two rules of thumb:-

If it says "you must forward this to everyone you know", it's total crap.
If it just, just, might not be total crap, a little research on Snopes is in order before pushing the forward button.

TURIN

25th Feb 2005 09:16

Thanks for the replys. It is as I thought.:ok:

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