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From: Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 11:04 AM To: Bruce Tefft Subject: Re: Missing 13 yr old Request for Help http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/missing/ashleyflores.asp Ashley Flores Claim: A 13-year-old girl named Ashley Flores is missing. Status: False. Example: [Collected via e-mail, 2006] Please look at the picture, read what her mother says, then forward his message on. <http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/graphics/ashley.jpg> "I am asking you all, begging you to pleaseforward this email on to anyone and everyone you know, PLEASE. Maybe if everyone passes this on, someone will see this child. That is how the girl from Stevens Point was found by circulation of her picture on tv. The internet circulates even overseas, South America, and Canada etc. Thanks We have a Deli manager (Acme Markets) from Philadelphia, Pa who has a 13 year old daughter who has been missing for 2 weeks. Keep the picture moving on. With luck on her side she will be found. My 13 year old girl, Ashley Flores, is missing. She has been missing now for two weeks. It is still not too late. Please help us. If anyone any where knows anything, please contact me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am including a picture of her. All prayers are appreciated!! "It only takes 2 seconds to forward this. If it was your child, you would want all the help you could get. Origins: Most missing child alerts circulated via e-mail fall into one of two categories: genuine reports of missing children that continue to be forwarded long after the child has been found, or hoaxes imploring readers to look for children who aren't missing <http://www.burstnet.com/ads/ad1874c.-map.cgi/ns/v=2.0S/sz=300x250A/> Advertisement or don't exist. The above-quoted message bears all the hallmarks of the latter category. The text of the e-mail (reproduced as we first received it in May 2006) does not include some of the most basic information one would expect to find in a genuine missing child plea: where the young girl (Ashley Flores) went missing, when she went missing, when and where she was last seen, a physical description of her, contact information for her parents, contact information for the local police authorities handling the case, etc. All we're provided with is the ambiguous statement that a "Deli manager from Philadelphia, Pa" has a 13-year-old daughter who has been missing "for two weeks," and even that information seems to have been tacked on to the message by someone other than its originator. Meanwhile, the one piece of identifying information provided in the message, a yahoo.com e-mail address, produces a "no such user" error when mail is sent to it, and a variety of searches through news accounts and law enforcement and missing child web sites, including the site of the Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC <http://www.missingkids.com/> ), fails to turn up any mention of a missing girl named "Ashley Flores." And according to NBC-10 TV in Philadelphia: The e-mail says: "Maybe if everyone passes this on, someone will see this child - We have a deli manager (Acme Markets) from Philadelphia, Pa., who has a 13-year-old daughter who has been missing for two weeks." Acme told Consumer Alert that people have been contacting them wanting to help, but they said the story isn't true. They said it is a sick joke. In the event, it turned out that apparently Ashley Flores is a real girl, but her "missing" status was one concocted as a kids' prank. Last updated: 18 May 2006 The URL for this page is http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/missing/ashleyflores.asp Bruce Tefft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ____________________________________ From: Pamela Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://by104fd.bay104.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?mailto=1&msg=D378F582 -90A2-4AFB-8898-BD81FF11DEC5&start=0&len=4719&src=&type=x&[EMAIL PROTECTED] cademy.cc&cc=&bcc=&subject=&body=&curmbox=00000000-0000-0000-0000-0000000000 02&a=2a19ad62439d84f99ec538b2e33ebcf46988c06a2fc7c067f65d45bc4ba571c9> ] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 2:21 PM Subject: Missing 13 year old girl Please circulate this -- what if it were your daughter? Date: May 10, 2006 12:58 PM Please look at the picture, read what her mother says, then forward his message on. Maybe if everyone passes this on, someone will see this child. That is how the girl from Stevens Point was found by circulation of her picture on tv. The internet circulates even overseas, South America and Canada etc. Thanks Please pass this to everyone in your address book. We have a Deli manager (Acme Markets) from Philadelphia, Pa who has a 13 year old daughter who has been missing for 2 weeks. Keep the picture moving on. With luck on her side she will be found. "I am asking you all, begging you to please forward this email on to anyone and everyone you know, PLEASE. My 13 year old girl, Ashley Flores, is missing. She has been missing for now two weeks. It is still not too late. Please help us. If anyone any where knows anything, please contact me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://by104fd.bay104.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=00000000-0000 -0000-0000-000000000002&a=2a19ad62439d84f99ec538b2e33ebcf46988c06a2fc7c067f6 5d45bc4ba571c9&mailto=1&[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msg=D378F582-90A 2-4AFB-8898-BD81FF11DEC5&start=0&len=4719&src=&type=x> (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://by104fd.bay104.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?mailto=1&msg=D378F582 -90A2-4AFB-8898-BD81FF11DEC5&start=0&len=4719&src=&type=x&to=HelpfindAshleyF [EMAIL PROTECTED]&cc=&bcc=&subject=&body=&curmbox=00000000-0000-0000-0000-0 00000000002&a=2a19ad62439d84f99ec538b2e33ebcf46988c06a2fc7c067f65d45bc4ba571 c9> I am including a picture of her. All prayers are appreciated!! " It only takes 2 seconds to forward this. If it was your child, you would want all the help you could get. 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