Yesterday a friend of
mine called and told me about something that
happened to him. He opened
his E-mail and this BUDDYLST.ZIP was there.
When he opened it his computer
crashed and when he tried to re-boot
he had lost everything!
It was a Virus that is being
passed around...BEWARE!
Please forward to as many
people as you can so no one will get hurt.
These people need to be
stopped. Don't download anything form
"buddylst.zip" or you
will lose all your files.
A computer virus is going
around! It is called BUDDYLST.ZIP!
Do not download or some
jerk from the Internet will get your screen
name and password!
Please send this to any
names you can think of and remember never
download BUDDYLST.ZIP
INFORMATION A DIFFUSER
TRES LARGEMENT.
A TOUS LES UTILISATEURS
D'INTERNET ET DE MESSAGERIE
Quelqu'un envoie un très
agréable économiseur d'écran "The Budweiser"
Nom de l'application : BUDDYST.ZIP
Si vous le chargez vous
perdez tout !!! votre disque dur sera détruit
et quelqu'un sur Internet
et récupérera votre nom et votre mot de passe.
NE PAS CHARGER CET APPLICATIF
QUELQU'EN SOIT LA RAISON , CE VIRUS VIENT
DE SORTIR DEPUIS QUELQUES
JOURS
C'est un nouveau virus et
peu de personnes le connaissent. Cette
information provient de
Microsoft, faites-le savoir autour de vous
afin d'arrêter la
propagation. N'ouvrez aucun message ayant pour objet :
"RETURN OR ENABLE TO DELIVER".
Ce virus se greffe tout
seul sur tous les composants de votre
ordinateur et les détruit.
Détruisez immédiatement
ces messages. AOL a explique que c'est un virus
très dangereux et
pour lequel il n'existe pas encore de parade.
N'oubliez pas de le faire
savoir autour de vous.
Il a été propagé par une compagnie de publication
électronique pour faire de la publicité pour un livre "interactif"
du même nom. La compagnie s'est excusée pour la panique provoquée
chez les utilisateurs.
FYI
There is a computer virus that is being sent
across the Internet.
If you receive an e-mail message with
the subject line "Irina",
DONOT read the message. DELETE it immediately.
Some miscreant is
sending people files under the title "Irina".
If you receive this
mail or file, do not download it. It
has a virus that rewrites
your hard drive, obliterating anything
on it. Please be careful
and forward this mail to anyone you care about.
( Information received from
the Professor Edward Prideaux,
College of Slavonic Studies, London ).
Il n'y a pas de virus "Good Times" connu actuellement. Cet avertissement
circule sur l'Internet depuis des années (avis du CIAC de décembre
1994).
Here is some important information.
Beware of a file called
Goodtimes. Happy Chanukah
everyone, and be careful out there.
There is a virus on America Online being
sent by E-Mail. If you
get anything called "Good
Times", DON'T read it or download
it. It is a virus that will erase your hard
drive.
Forward this to all your friends. It may help
them a lot.
The FCC released a warning
last Wednesday concerning a
matter of major importance to any regular
user of the InterNet.
Apparently, a new computer virus has been
engineered by a user of
America Online that
is unparalleled in its destructive
capability. Other, more
well-known viruses such as Stoned,
Airwolf, and Michaelangelo pale in comparison
to the prospects of
this newest creation by a warped mentality.
What makes this virus so terrifying,
said the FCC, is the fact
that no program needs to be exchanged
for a new computer to be
infected. It can be spread
through the existing e-mail systems
of the InterNet. Once a
computer is infected, one of several
things can happen. If the computer
contains a hard drive, that
will most likely be destroyed. If the program
is not stopped, the
computer's processor will be placed in an
nth-complexity infinite
binary loop - which can severely
damage the processor if left
running that way too long. Unfortunately,
most novice computer
users will not realize what is
happening until it is far too
late.
**********VIRUS ALERT**********
VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ!
There is a computer virus that is being sent
across the Internet.
If you receive an email message with the subject
line "Deeyenda",
DO NOT read the message, DELETE it immediately!
Some miscreant is sending email
under the title "Deeyenda"
nationwide, if you get anything like this DON'T
DOWNLOAD THE FILE!
It has a virus that rewrites your hard drive, obliterates
anything
on it. Please be careful and forward
this e-mail to anyone you
care about.
Please read the message below.
Alex
-----------
FCC WARNING!!!!! -----DEEYENDA PLAGUES INTERNET
The Internet community has again been plagued
by another computer
virus. This message is being
spread throughout the Internet,
including USENET posting, EMAIL, and
other Internet activities.
The reason for all the attention is because of
the nature of this
virus and the potential security risk
it makes. Instead of a
destructive Trojan virus (like most viruses!), this
virus referred
to as Deeyenda Maddick, performs
a comprehensive search on your
computer, looking for valuable
information, such as email and
login passwords, credit cards, personal inf., etc.
The Deeyenda virus also has the capability to stay
memory resident
while running a host of applications and operation
systems, such
as Windows 3.11 and Windows 95. What this
means to Internet users
is that when a login and password are
send to the server, this
virus can copy this information
and SEND IT OUT TO UN UNKNOWN
ADDRESS (varies).
The reason for this warning
is because the Deeyenda virus is
virtually undetectable.
Once attacked your computer will be
unsecure. Although it can
attack any O/S this virus is most
likely to attack those users viewing
Java enhanced Web Pages
(Netscape 2.0+ and Microsoft Internet
Explorer 3.0+ which are
running under Windows 95). Researchers
at Princeton University
have found this virus on a number of World
Wide Web pagesand fear
its spread.
Please pass this on, for we must alert the
general public at the
security risks.
Ce message semble être une tentative d'arrêt d'une chaîne
de lettres en prétendant être un cheval de Troie à
exécution automatique. Un programme ne peut pas se démarrer
lui-même, et ce message a raté son objet en devenant lui-même
un canular.
FYI!
Subject: Virus Alert
Importance: High
If anyone receives mail entitled: PENPAL GREETINGS!
please delete
it WITHOUT reading it. Below
is a little explanation of the
message, and what it would do to your PC if
you were to read the
message. If you have any
questions or concerns please contact
SAF-IA Info Office on 697-5059.
This is a warning for all internet users
- there is a dangerous
virus propogating across the internet
through an e-mail message
entitled "PENPAL GREETINGS!".
DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY MESSAGE
ENTITLED "PENPAL GREETINGS!" This
message appears to be a friendly
letter asking you if you are
interestedin a penpal, but by the time
you read this letter, it
is too late. The "trojan horse" virus
will have already infected
the boot sector of your hard drive,
destroying all of the data
present. It is a self-replicating virus,
and once the message is
read, it will AUTOMATICALLY forward itself
to anyone who's e-mail
address is present in YOUR mailbox!
This virus will DESTROY your
hard drive, and holds the potential
to DESTROY the hard drive of
anyone whose mail is in your inbox,
and who's mail is in their
inbox, and so on. If this
virus remains unchecked, it has the
potential to do a great deal of
DAMAGE to computer networks
worldwide!!!! Please, delete
the message entitled "PENPAL
GREETINGS!" as soon as you see it!
And pass this message along
to all of your friends and relatives,
and the other readers of
the newsgroups and mailing lists which
you are on, so that they
are not hurt by this dangerous virus!!!!
Même type de message que le précédent.
Ce message apparait comme étant un canular; il n'y a aucun
indice permettant d'affirmer que le problème décrit dans
ce message ait réellement existé.
Subject: security breached by NaughtyRobot
This message was sent
to you by NaughtyRobot, an Internet
spider that crawls into your server
through a tiny hole in the
World Wide Web.
NaughtyRobot exploits a security
bug in HTTP and has visited
your host system to
collect personal, private, and sensitive
information.
It has captured your Email
and physical addresses, as well as
your phone and credit
card numbers. To protect yourself
against the misuse of this information,
do the following:
1. alert your server SysOp,
2. contact your local police,
3. disconnect your telephone, and
4. report your credit cards as lost.
Act at once. Remember: only YOU can prevent DATA fires.
This has been a public service
announcement from the makers of
NaughtyRobot -- CarJacking
its way onto the Information
SuperHighway.
IMPORTANT - VIRUS
Alert!!!
Take note !
Someone got an email,
titled as JOIN THE CREW.
It has erased his
hard drive.
Do not open up any
mail that has this title.
It will erase your
whole hard drive.
This is a new email
virus and not a lot of people know about it,
just let everyone
know, so they won't be a victim.
Please e-mail this
to everyone you know!!!
Remember the title
: JOIN THE CREW
A deadly
new computer virus that actually causes
home
computers to explode in
a hellish blast of glass fragments and
flame has injured
at least 47 people since August 15,
horrifying authorities who
say millions of people are risking
injury, blindness or death
every time they sit down to work at
their PC!
"Computer viruses of the
past could disable your computer, but
this virus goes a step further
-- and can kill you," declared
Martin Heriden,
a computer expert who specializes in
identifying computer
viruses. "This virus doesn't carry the
usual 'markers' that
enable it to be detected. It slips
through the cracks, so to
speak.
"It is an extremely complicated
process. But suffice it to say
that the virus
affects the computer's hardware, creating
conditions that lead to
dangerous short circuits and power
surges.
The end result? Explosions
-- powerful
explosions. And millions
of Internet users are at risk."
The virus, nicknamed
Death Ray by experts like Heriden,
surfaced in England on August
1. A 24-year-old college student
was permanently
blinded when his 15-inch color monitor
exploded in his face.
"So how
do you protect yourself? I wish I knew,"
said
Heriden. "You either stop
using the Internet or you take your
chances until we can get
a handle on this thing and get rid of
it for good.
Il y a actuellement de nombreux virus et chevaux de Troie nommés
"AIDS", mais ce message ne décrit pas l'un d'eux. Celui-ci indique
que le virus vient avec la messagerie; il est de plus non signé,
et ne donne aucun moyen d'authentification, ce qui est une forte indication
de canular.
THEREE IS A VIRUS GOING
AROUND CALLED THE A.I.D.S VIRUS. IT
WILL ATTACH ITSELF INSIDE
YOUR COMPUTER AND EAT AWAY AT YOUR
MEMORY THIS MEMORY
IS IRREPLACEABLE. THEN WHEN IT'S FINISHED
WITH MEMORY IT INFECTS YOUR
MOUSE OR POINTING DEVICE. THEN IT
GOES TO YOUR
KEY BOARD AND THE LETTERS YOU TYPE WILLNOT
REGISTER ON SCREEN.
BEFORE IT SELF TERMINATES IT EATS 5MB OF
HARD DRIVE SPACE AND WILL
DELETE ALL PROGRAMS ON IT AND IT CAN
SHUT DOWN ANY 8
BIT TO 16 BIT SOUND CARDS RENDERING YOUR
SPEAKERS USELESS.
IT WILL COME IN E-MAIL CALLED "OPEN:VERY
COOL! :) DELETE IT
RIGHT AWAY. THIS VIRUS WILL BASICLY RENDER
YOUR COMPUTER USELESS.
YOU MUST PASS THIS ON QUICKLY AND TO
AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSLE!!!!!
YOU MUST!
Des variantes de ce message ont circulé sur l'Internet.
Subj: Internet Cleanup Day
THIS MESSAGE WILL AGAIN BE REPEATED IN MID FEBRUARY.
*** Attention ***
It's that time again!
As many of you know, each
year the Internet must be shut down
for 24 hours in order
to allow us to clean it. The cleaning
process, which eliminatesdead
email and inactive ftp, www and
gopher sites, allows for
a better working and faster Internet.
This year, the cleaning
process will take place from 12:01
a.m.. GMT on February
27 until 12:01 a.m. GMT on February 28
(the time least likely to
interfere with ongoing work). During
that 24-hour period,
five powerful Internet search engines
situated around the world
will search the Internet and delete
any data that they find.
In order to protect
your valuable data from deletion we ask
that you do the following:
1. Disconnect
all terminals and local area networks from
their Internet connections.
2. Shut down
all Internet servers, or disconnect them from
the Internet.
3. Disconnect
all disks and hardrives from any connections
to the Internet.
4. Refrain from
connecting any computer to the Internet in
any way.
We understand the
inconvenience that this may cause some
Internet users, and we apologize.
However, we are certain that
any inconveniences
will be more than made up for by the
increased speed and efficiency
of the Internet, once it has
been cleared of electronic
flotsam and jetsam.
We thank you for your cooperation.
***** Signature Removed *****
Chaîne de lettres qui circulent depuis novembre 1997. A détruire
immédiatement, avec l'attachement éventuel.
FROM: GatesBeta@microsoft.com
ATTACH:Tracklog@microsoft.com/Track883432/~TraceActive/On.html
Hello Everyone,
And thank you
for signing up for my Beta Email Tracking
Application or (BETA) for
short. My name is Bill Gates. Here
at Microsoft we have
just compiled an e-mail tracing program
that tracks everyone to
whom this message is forwarded to. It
does this through an unique
IP (Internet Protocol) address log
book database.
We are experimenting with
this and need your help. Forward
this to everyone you
know and if it reaches 1000 people
everyone on
the list you will receive $1000 and a copy of
Windows98 at my expense.
Enjoy.
Note: Duplicate entries will
not be counted. You will be
notified by email
with further instructions once this email
has reached 1000 people.
Windows98 will not be shipped unitl
it has been released to
the general public.
Your friend, Bill Gates &
The Microsoft Development Team.
Il n'y a actuellement aucun virus ayant les caractéristiques
décrites dans ce message; celui-ci est une variante de "Join the
Crew" et "JUST WIN A HOLIDAY".
VIRUS WARNING !!!!!!
If you receive an
email titled "WIN A HOLIDAY" DO NOT open
it. It will erase everything
on your hard drive. Forward this
letter out as
many people as you can. This is a new, very
malicious virus and
not many people know about it. This
information was announced
yesterday morning from Microsoft;
please share
it with everyone that might access
the
Internet. Once
again, pass this along to EVERYONE in our
address book so that this
may be stopped. Also, do not open or
even look at
any mail that says "RETURNED OR UNABLE TO
DELIVER" This
virus will attach itself to your computer
components and render
them useless. Immediately delete any
mail items that say
this. AOL has said that this is a very
dangerous virus and
that there is NO remedy for it at this
time. Please practice cautionary
measures and forward this to
all your online friends
ASAP.
AOL a déclaré ce message comme étant un canular.
<< Tatiana Gau, Vice President of AOL Integrity Assurance. >>
From a former AOL employee:
I'll try and cut through
the crap, and try to get to the point
of this letter.
I used to work for
America Online, and would like to remain
anonymous for that reason.
I was laid off in early September,
but I know exactly
why I was laid off, which I will now
explain:
Since last December,
I had been one of the many people
assigned to
design AOL 4.0 for Windows (AOL 4.0
beta,
codenamed Casablanca).
In the beginning, I was very proud of
this task, until I found
out the true cost of it. Things were
going fine until
about mid-February, when me and 2 of my
colleagues started
to suspect a problem, an unexplainable
'Privacy Invasion', with
the new version. One of them, who is
a master programmer,
copied the finished portion of the new
version (Then
'Build 52'), and took it home, and we spent
nearly 2 weeks of sleepless
nights examining and debugging the
program, flipping it inside-out,
and here is what we found.
Unlike all previous versions
of America Online, version 4.0
puts something
in your hard drive called a 'cookie'. (AOL
members click here for
a definition). However, the cookie we
found on Version 4.0 was
far more treacherous than the simple
Internet cookie. How
would you like somebody looking at your
entire hard drive,
snooping through any (yes, any) piece of
information
on your hard drive. It could also read your
password and log in
information and store it deep in the
program code. Well, all
previous versions, whether you like it
or not, have
done this to a certain extent, but only with
files you downloaded.
As me and my colleagues discovered,
with the new version,
anytime you are signed on to AOL, any
top AOL executive,
any AOL worker, who has been sworn to
secrecy regarding
this feature, can go in to your hard drive
and retrieve any
piece of information that they so desire.
Billing, download
records, e-mail, directories, personal
documents, programs,
financial information, scanned images,
etc. Better
start keeping all those pictures on a floppy
disk!
This is a totally disgusting
violation of our rights, and your
right to know as well.
Since this is undoubtedly 'Top Secret'
information that I am revealing,
my life at AOL is pretty much
over. After
discovering this inform attain, we started to
inform a few other workers
at America Online, so that we could
get a large enough
crew to stop this from happening to the
millions of
unfortunate and unsuspecting America Online
members.
This was in early August. One month later, all
three of us were unemployed.
We got together, and figured
there was something we had
to do to let the public know.
Unemployed, with one
of us going through a divorce (me) and
another who is about
to undergo treatment for Cancer, our
combined financial
situation is not currently enough to
release any sort or
article. We attempted to create a web
page on
three different servers containing
in-depth
information on AOL 4.0,
but all three were taken down within 2
days. We were running
very low on time (4.0 is released early
this winter), so we
figured our last hope to reveal this
madness before it
effects the people was starting something
similar to a
chain letter, this letter you are reading.
Please do the following,
to help us expose AOL for who they
really are, and to
help us and yourself receive personal
gratification for taking
a stand for our freedom:
1. Forward this letter to
as many people as you can (not just
friends and family, as many
as you can)!
2. Tell people
who aren't on America Online in person,
especially important people
(Private Investigators, Government
workers, City Council)
3. If the information
about the new version isn't exposed by
the time AOL
is released early this winter, for your own
protection, DON'T DOWNLOAD
AOL 4.0 UNDER ANY CONDITION !!!
Thank you for reading
and examining this information. Me and
my colleagues hope that
you will help us do the right thing in
this situation. Enjoy
America Online (just kidding!).
Regards, A former AOL employee
AOL4FREE comprend trois éléments séparés
:
1.Le programme Macintosh, AOL4FREE, permettant d'obtenir un compte AOL
illégalement; l'utilisation de ce programme est bien entendu prohibée
par la loi.
2.Faux virus "AOL4FREE" : si le message est un faux virus, les dommages
qu'il décrit peuvent cependant être accomplis par un programme
avec cheval de Troie, passé dans un attachement; c'est se qui a
été réalisé avec le 3ième élément
AOL4FREE.
VIRUS ALERT!!! DON'T OPEN E-MAIL NOTING "AOL4FREE"
Anyone who receives this must send
it to as many people as
you can. It is essential
that this problem be reconciled
as soon as possible.
A few hours ago, I opened an E-mail
that had the subject
heading of "AOL4FREE.COM". Within
seconds of opening
it, a window appeared and began to
display my files that
were being deleted. I immediately
shut down my computer,
but it was too late. This virus
wiped me out. It ate
the Anti-Virus Software that comes
with the Windows '95
Program along with F-Prot AVS.
Neither was able to detect
it. Please be careful and send
this to as many people as possible,
so maybe this new virus
can be eliminated.
3.AOL4FREE.COM est un programme qui détruit tous les fichiers
de votre disque dur. Il semble que ce soit le programme qui crée
les comptes illégaux (bien qu'étant un programme DOS et non
Macintosh) et qui exécute la commande DOS "deltree" sur C:\.
Vous ne pouvez pas recevoir de mise à jour AOL par messagerie,
la distribution se faisant par téléchargement à partir
de zones en accès par mots-clés.
Attention Friends
Another scam on the lurch on the
AOL net.... BEWARE !!!!!! If
you receive an e-mail that
is titled "Fwd: America Online 4.0
Upgrade" or has an attached
file called "Setup40.exe" Do not
download the program it
is NOT Aol 4.0 it is a program that
will e-mail your SCREEN
NAME and your PASSWORD to two or more
people during two blackouts
of your computer screen. DO NOT
DOWNLOAD DELETE IT!!!
Please E-Mail this letter to as many
people as possible to avoid damage....thanks
!!!
DANGER!!! VIRUS ALERT!!!
THIS IS A NEW TWIST. SOME
CREEPOID SCAM-ARTIST IS SENDING OUT
A VERY DESIRABLE SCREEN-SAVER
(THE BUD FROGS). BUT IF YOU
DOWN-LOAD IT, YOU'LL LOSE
EVERYTHING!!!!! YOUR HARD DRIVE WILL
CRASH!!
DON'T DOWNLOAD THIS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!!!
IT JUST WENT INTO
CIRCULATION YESTERDAY, AS FAR AS WE
KNOW....BE CAREFUL.
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE...THANX
BELOW IS WHAT THE SCREENSAVER PROGGIE WOULD LOOK LIKE!
File: BUDSAVER.EXE (24643
bytes) DL Time (28800 bps): < 1
minute
Exemple d'information du type "message de sympathie". L'"American
Cancer Society" se plaint d'être fortement perturbée par ces
chaînes de message qu'elle ne cautionne d'aucune manière.
You guys..... this isn't a
chain letter, but a choice for all
of us to save a little girl
that's going to die of a serious
and fatal form of
cancer. Please send this to everyone you
know...or don't know at that.This
little girl has 6 months left
to live her life, and as
her last wish, she wanted to send a
chain letter telling everyone
to live their life to fullest,
since she never will.
She'll never make it to prom,graduate
from high school,
or get married and have a family of her
own. By you sending this to as
many people as possible, you can
give her and her family a little
hope, because with every name
that this is sent to, the American
Cancer Society will donate 3
cents per name to
her treatment and recovery plan. One guy
sent this to 500 people !!!!
So, I know that we can send it to
at least 5 or 6.
Come on you guys.... and if you're too
selfish to waste
10-15 minutes and scrolling this and
forwarding it to EVERYONE,
just think it could be you one
day....and it's not even
your $money$, just your time. Please
help this little girl out guys,
I know you can do it!! I love
you guys!
LITTLE JESSICA MYDEK
IS SEVEN YEARS OLD AND IS SUFFERING FROM
AN ACUTE AND
VERY RARE CASE OF CEREBRAL CARCINOMA. THIS
CONDITION CAUSES SEVERE
MALIGNANT BRAIN TUMORS AND IS A
TERMINAL ILLNESS. THE
DOCTORS HAVE GIVEN HER SIX MONTHS TO
LIVE. AS PART OF HER DYING
WISH, SHE WANTED TO START A CHAIN
LETTER TO INFORM PEOPLE OF
THIS CONDITION AND TO SEND PEOPLE
THE MESSAGE TO LIVE LIFE TO THE
FULLEST AND ENJOY EVERY MOMENT,
A CHANCE THAT SHE WILL
NEVER HAVE. FURTHERMORE, THE AMERICAN
CANCER SOCIETY AND
SEVERAL CORPORATE SPONSORS HAVE AGREED TO
DONATE THREE CENTS TOWARD
CONTINUING CANCER RESEARCH FOR EVERY
NEW PERSON THAT GETS
FORWARDED THIS MESSAGE. PLEASE GIVE
JESSICA AND ALL CANCER VICTIMS
A CHANCE.
IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS,
SEND THEM TO THE AMERICAN CANCER
SOCIETY AT ACS@AOL.COM
THIS IS NOT A JOKE.
This little boy at the
Mayo Clinic is very sick and he knows
that he will die.
Well you know how they have those "Make a
Wish Foundations" that give
terminally ill kids a dying wish,
well this is kind
of like that. He likes computers and his
wish is to live
forever by having his chain letter
be
eternally passed on the
Internet. This is not some joke. And
for those of you who
care please send this to as many people
as possible so his
wish can be granted. (THIS IS NOT A CHAIN
LETTER JUST DO SOMETHING
NICE FOR ONCE!)
From: Anthony Parkin
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 To: Subject: My
dying wish
My name is Anthony Parkin,
and you don't know me. I'm 7 years
old, and I have lukemea.
I found your name using gopher, and
I would like for you to
carry out my dying wish of starting a
chain letter. Please
send this letter to five people you know
so I can live forever.
Thank You very much
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Friendship and love are
the best gift that a person can recieve.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
For cancer research...Tickle
me! :-)
Elmo
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For every new person
that this is passed on to The American
Cancer Society will donate
3 cents to cancer research. Please
help us. Forward this
to everyone you know. Also add to your
list ACS@aol.com
Thanks for helping!!
"It's Not a Joke" Dear
Friends,
I wish to warn you
about a new crime ring that is targeting
business travelers. This
ring is well organized, well funded,
has very skilled personnel,
and is currently in most major
cities and recently very
active in New Orleans.
The crime begins when a business
traveler goes to a lounge for
a drink at the end of the
work day. A person in the bar walks
up as they sit alone and
offers to buy them a drink. The last
thing the traveler
remembers until they wake up in a hotel
room bath tub, their
body submerged to their neck in ice, is
sipping that
drink. There is a note taped to the
wall
instructing them not to
move and to call 911. A phone is on a
small table
next to the bathtub for them to call.
The
business traveler calls
911 who have become quite familiar
with this crime.
The business traveler is instructed by the
911 operator to very
slowly and carefully reach behind them
and feel if
there is a tube protruding from their lower
back. The business traveler
finds the tube and answers, "Yes."
The 911 operator tells
them to remain still, having already
sent paramedics to help.
The operator knows that both of the
business traveler's kidneys
have been harvested.
This is not a scam
or out of a science fiction novel, it is
real. It is documented
and confirmable. If you travel or
someone close to you travels,
please be careful.
Another email report:
Yes, this does
happen. My sister-in-law works with a lady
that this happened to her
son's neighbor who lives in Houston.
The only "good" thing to
this whole story is the fact that the
people doing this
horrible crime are very in tune to what
complications can
happen afterwards because of the details
precautions they take
the time to set up before leaving the
room.The word from my
sister-in-law is that the hospital in
Las Vegas (yes,
Vegas) prior to transferring him back to
Houston stated that these
people know exactly what they are
doing. The incision,
etc. was exact and clean. They use
sterile equipment etc. and
the hospital stated that other than
the fact that the
victim looses a kidney there has not been
any reports
of other complications due to non-sterile,
etc. tactics that were used.
Please be careful.
Another email report:
Sadly, this is
very true. My husband is
a Houston
Firefighter/EMT and they
have received alerts regarding this
crime ring. It
is to be taken very seriously. The daughter
of a friend of a fellow
firefighter had this happen to her.
Skilled doctor's are
performing these crimes (which, by the
way have
been highly noted in the Las
Vegas area)!
Additionally, the military
has received alerts regarding this.
If more information
on the above subject is received it will
be verified
and passed on to keep you updated on
this
material.
Subject: PBS and NPR
- petition
Please read this
VERY IMPORTANT petition! I hope you will
then sign it and pass
it along to everyone you know. We've
got to be active
in saving these important institutions!
Please sign! Thanks!
This is
for anyone who thinks NPR/PBS is a
worthwhile
expenditure of $1.12/year
of their taxes (as opposed to, say,
Newt Gingrich's salary?),
a petition follows. If you sign,
please forward on to others
(not back to me).
If not, please don't
kill it -- send it to the email address
listed here: wein2688@blue.univnorthco.edu
PBS, NPR (National
Public Radio), and the arts are facing
major cutbacks in
funding. In spite of the efforts of each
station to reduce
spending costs and streamline their
services, some government
officials believe that the funding
currently going to
these programs is too large a portion of
funding for something
which is seen as "unworthwhile".
Currently, taxes from
the general public for PBS equal $1.12
per person per year,
and the National Endowment for the Arts
equals $.64 a year in total.
A January 1995 CNN/USA Today/Gallup
poll indicated that 76% of
Americans wish to keep funding
for PBS, third only to national
defense and law enforcement
as the most valuable programs for
federal funding.
Each year, the Senate and
House Appropriations committees each
have 13 sub- committees
with jurisdiction over many programs
and agencies. Each
subcommittee passes its own appropriation
bill. The goal each
year is to have each bill signed by the
beginning of the fiscal
year, which is October 1.
The only way that our representatives
can be aware of the base
of support for PBS and funding
for these types of programs is
by making our voices heard.
Please add your name to this
list and forward it to friends if
you believe in what we stand
for. This list will be forwarded
to the President of
the United States, the Vice President of
the United States,
and Representative Newt Gingrich, who is
the instigator
of the action to cut funding to
these
worthwhile programs.
If you happen to be
the 150th, 200th, 250th etc. signer of
this
petition, please forward
a copy to:
wein2688@blue.univnorthco.edu.
If that address
is
inoperative, please send
it to: kubi7975@blue.univnorthco.edu.
This way we can keep track
of the lists and organize them.
Forward this to everyone
you know, and help us to keep these
programs alive.
Thank you.