Hoax E-Mail Warning

[TygerTyger]

I just received an e-mail from a female friend warning of suspicious men handing business cards out to women at gas stations. The cards are supposed to be soaked in a drug called 'Burungunda' which renders the victim vulnerable to robbery and/or sexual abuse.

This is a hoax!

Please check it out here: Snopes - Burundanga Hoax (http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/burundanga.asp)

I don't like these kind of hoaxes because they look to inspire fear in women and sometimes distract from real danger.

[Fluoxetine]

I just received an e-mail from a female friend warning of suspicious men handing business cards out to women at gas stations. The cards are supposed to be soaked in a drug called 'Burungunda' which renders the victim vulnerable to robbery and/or sexual abuse.

This is a hoax!

Please check it out here: Snopes - Burundanga Hoax (http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/burundanga.asp)

I don't like these kind of hoaxes because they look to inspire fear in women and sometimes distract from real danger.

Its similar to the LSD slap on patch for kids. It can not be absorbed through the skin as the concentration of the chemical is low. It is like the urban legend that keeps going round but in different forms.

[TygerTyger]

Yes, but targetting women and making them afraid is reprehensible. I've looked back at the e-mail from my friend and noted that it had over 20 addressees, me being the only male!

Fear is often contagious and reduces a person's quality of life, I can't udnerstand how anyone would get pleasure from it?

[Fluoxetine]

Some people like to spread fear as it gives them a perverse pleasure. Same way script kiddies do viruses just for the fun of knowing it will cause problems to someone else's PC.

[Phoenix Blue]

Some people like to spread fear as it gives them a perverse pleasure.
Let's leave Dick Cheney out of this, shall we? :toofless:

[Meadhbh]

But Phoenix we only have a few days left to get in all our Cheney humor. Then we will never speak of him again. Much like Voldemort.

[Lonely_Geek77]

Do people even READ chain emails anymore?!
Also, who, other than "new to the internet" post menopausal, house wives SENDS them in the first place?

[TygerTyger]

Do people even READ chain emails anymore?!

Not usually but the subject matter caught my attention and it was from someone I know quite well!


Also, who, other than "new to the internet" post menopausal, house wives SENDS them in the first place?

Actually, that's a good description of the person who sent me the e-mail!
:hahugh:

[Glowingsun]

i love my auntie sheila ver very much. But she constantly sends me chain e-mails and so do her friends. In fact, those are the majority of emails that I get form her.