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Jenjie
02-01-2005, 10:47 PM
There are some really sick and twisted people out there.


Hoax Emails Sent to Tsunami Victims' Families


Friends and relatives desperately seeking news of loved ones after the Asian tsunami have been plagued by hoax emails saying they are dead.

Messages purportedly from Government officials have been sent to people who placed appeals for information on the Sky News Web site.

Scotland Yard said a 40-year-old man is being questioned.

A spokesman said: "The Metropolitan Police Service would like to reassure the public that these messages are hoaxes.

"The British Government would not use email to convey news of the death of a loved one."

The hoax emails have all been sent from the same bogus address: ukgovfoffice@aol.com. AOL closed the account on Friday as soon as they were notified of the person's actions.

The email claims to come from the "Foreign Office Bureau" in Thailand and state that the missing person has been confirmed dead.


Anyone receiving such an email has been advised to treat it with the "utmost caution".

"Sky is disgusted at the abuse of this message board, designed for friends and relatives caught up in the tsunami disaster,'' the broadcaster said
Bijeli_Miš
02-01-2005, 10:49 PM
aol?
-JaK-
03-01-2005, 11:27 AM
:sick:
them people should be the ones that are dead, not the innocents :sick:
Momou
03-01-2005, 11:38 AM
:shame: i wonder how people can be so vicious
nellie
03-01-2005, 11:50 AM
that is low...
el_scorcho
03-01-2005, 01:06 PM
That's awful. Who would want to do something that cruel? :angry:
Gas_Man
03-01-2005, 04:13 PM
that's disgraceful
*Justine*
03-01-2005, 05:06 PM
that is sick

Haven't these people been through enough?
MAFE
03-01-2005, 07:51 PM
:cry:
berrywoman
03-01-2005, 11:50 PM
:stunned:


they had me at AOL.. like the UK gov't would use such a service.. but a cruel joke none the less..



its a mad world.. mad mad I tell you!
*Justine*
03-01-2005, 11:53 PM
This guy will probably only get like 6-9 months in prison
mycdplayerisbroke
04-01-2005, 01:18 AM
^ you're just jealous because i've been talking to babes online all day.
berrywoman
04-01-2005, 03:03 PM
:huh:
-JaK-
04-01-2005, 04:42 PM
wtf :huh: :huh:
Astrum
04-01-2005, 06:39 PM
I'm not surprised at all by this news. Someone will always try and take advantage of those at their most vulnerable, for either money or pure amusement (if you want to call it that). Reminds me of the guy who had a website claiming he had access to information on the World Trade Center missing people.
berrywoman
04-01-2005, 08:53 PM
^ I remember that... and there was this woman who claimed her husband called her from beneathe the rubble of the WTC... and she made firefighters and police go search in this area she claimed he was in... turns out, she wasnt even married.. there was no guy trapped under there.. and she made the entire thing up. People even scammed the insurance co for life insurance money!
EasyToPlease
13-01-2005, 02:53 PM
Someone will always try and take advantage of those at their most vulnerable, for either money or pure amusement (if you want to call it that).


Unfortunatley a very true comment
I just don't understand. WHY? How do you get a kick out of that?
*Justine*
13-01-2005, 08:48 PM
http://homepage.mac.com/demark/tsunami/2.html

before and after shot.
EasyToPlease
20-01-2005, 03:10 PM
Cheers for the link, really illustrates just how horrific this is.

It really is shocking... the tsunami has gone some way towards uniting the world though, which is the only positive thing you can say about it.
:(
-JaK-
20-01-2005, 03:49 PM
those pics are sooo depressing
but it does show the truth that we dont get to see