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Eighteen
Year Old Jeff Has Cancer, Forwarded Emails Will Help Pay His Expenses-Fiction!
Summary of eRumor: Jeff
deLeon has lung cancer from second hand smoke as well as a tumor from
being beaten. The doctors say he'll die without medical care, but
his family can't pay for it, so Make A Wish foundation will donate seven
cents for every email that is forwarded on his behalf.
The Truth:
This
is a hoax. There is no evidence of a Jeff deLeon of this description
and the Make-A-Wish foundation says they do not participate in these kinds of
appeals. They specialize in granting the wishes of terminally ill
children. Also, there is no way for any organization to know whether
you have forwarded emails to others or how many. Also, the closing
guilt-trip to people who don't forward it is common in other, similar
hoaxes of dying or sick children who are asking for emails to be forwarded
on their behalf.
A real example of the story as it has
been circulated:
Hi, my name is Jeff de Leon.
I am 18 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. Please, if you are a kind person, send this on.
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