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Stay Out of the Mall on Halloween Warning

October 2001

Talk about an hystericane (a term invented by Rob Rosenberger on the
VMyths website), on October 11, this particular hoax went completely out
of control. My inbox was so full I couldn't download any more mail.
However, our security department checked with the FBI and they said they
had investigated this message and found it was a hoax. It never happened
so please stop sending it around!

This hoax uses one of the more classic tricks to make it appear
authentic. It claims to predict two events, the first of which has
happened. The trick is that since the first event has happened, you will
believe that the second is going to happen also. Of course, the hoax was
written after the first event occurred, making it very simple to make an
accurate "prediction."

Don't send it on, put it in the trash. Better yet, go to the mall, or
don't go to the mall and then my kids and I will have the whole place to
ourselves on Halloween.

Hi All -

I think you all know that I don't send out hoaxes and don't do the
reactionary thing and send out just anything that crosses my path. This
one, however, is a friend of a friend and I've given it 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 to not to go to 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.

Laura Katsis Implementation Specialist 714/921-5424 lkatsis@volt.com
OpsVolt_Track@volt.com

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