Forward Emails for Fatima’s Medical Costs-Fiction!
Summary of eRumor:
The email says it’s from Fatima’s mother. The little girl was hit by a car and has internal bleeding. Her family does not have health insurance, so the mother has “made a deal” with a company that will pay three cents for every email that is forwarded about Fatima.
The Truth:
We have not been able to find anyone named Fatima who fits the description in this story. It’s a hoax, however, because there is no special “encoding” of emails that tracks where they’ve been forwarded. This is one of numerous “emails for money” eRumors on the Internet right now.