Description: Email hoaxCirculating since: 1999
Status: False
Email example contributed by Kim O., 18 August 1999:Hi, my name is Amy Bruce. I am 7 years old, and I have severe lung cancer from second hand smoke. I also have a large tumor in my brain, from repeated beatings The doctors say I will die soon if this isn't fixed, and my family can't pay the bills. The Make A Wish Foundation, has agreed to donate 7 cents for every name on this list. For those of you who send this along, I thank you so much, but for those who don't send it, what goes around comes around. Have a Heart, please send this.
Comments: You know, you take one look at this absurd chain letter — purportedly written by a 7-year-old who not only has severe lung cancer but is dying because of a brain tumor "from repeated beatings" — and you naturally think: no one could possibly fall for this!
But, as I review the text again in January 2007, the evidence to the contrary is all too plain — people have been forwarding this message uncritically for eight years. Eight years! Appalling, but true.
The message claims that the Make-A-Wish Foundation will donate 7 cents for every time it's forwarded. But how would anyone know how many times it's been forwarded, or to whom? Has the foundation employed psychics? Has it gone back on its longstanding policy of not participating in chain letter campaigns?
For the benefit of those unfamiliar with how widespread this type of hoax is, here are a few previous examples from which the format for the "Amy Bruce" letter was cribbed:
David Lawitts Chain Letter
Tamara Martin Chain Letter
Timothy Flyte Chain Letter
Jessica Mydek Chain Letter
Update: Variants of the Amy Bruce chain letter circulating since March 2006 include the photograph reproduced at right. It is not a picture of Amy Bruce, who doesn't exist. The actual identity of the child in the photo is unknown
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自信心對於按摩全套壹個人的成功起著極其重要的推動作用。台北魚訊許多積極主動的人因為自信心的毀滅而台中一夜情變得消極被動起來。台北援交他們逐漸地對自己失去了信心。也許者開始與其他人暗示他們無能，一夜情留言板也許這開始於他們認為自己不能取得成就想法，一夜情或者這開始於他們認為自己不能勝任他們的本職工作的想法茶訊。很快，由於這種微妙的心理暗示作用，援交妹他們的創新精神遭外送茶到極大的打擊，他們就不再像以前台中一夜情壹樣充滿滿腔的熱情、勁頭十足地去從事任何事情了。他們就逐漸失去外送茶了大刀闊斧、雷厲風行的果斷行事的能力外送茶，他們很快就會對處理壹些鐘點情人重大事情變指油壓按摩得畏手畏腳，魚訊網站不敢作出決定。他們的思想很快就會變得動搖起來。因而他們就不會像一夜情論壇以前壹樣成為領導者，外約舒壓而變成為追隨者。
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