Sending emails telling people that their relativeves are dead as a joke...

[lildonkey]

Man charged for hoax tsunami emails
Posted Mon, 03 Jan 2005

Police in London charged a 40-year-old man on Sunday in connection with a series of hoax emails sent to friends and relatives of people missing since the Asian tsunami a week ago claiming they were dead.

The emails — which purported to be from the "Foreign Office Bureau" in Thailand — were sent to people who had placed appeals for information on a website set up by Sky News television.

The man, charged with "malicious communication and causing a public nuisance," was to appear before a London court on Monday, police said.

They said a man who had been arrested in Lincolnshire, in the east of England, on Friday, then released on bail, was re-arrested late on Saturday. Computer equipment was also seized.

He was taken to a central London police station for questioning Sunday and remained in custody.

"The Metropolitan Police Service would like to reassure the public that these messages are hoaxes," a police spokesperson said.

"The British government would not use email to convey news of the death of a loved one," the spokesperson said. "Police are treating this as a very serious crime, and a full investigation has been launched."

The hoax emails were all sent from the same bogus email address.

- http://cooltech.iafrica.com/technews/401500.htm

[bungoshlung]

fucking guy..

[decypher]

What a loser.

[Berta]

harsh..

[mapleleaf4ever]

This just in.... mapleleaf4ever was killed in a tragic accident involving a Toaster Oven this evening. Preliminary reports suggest that the Bagel leaped from the Oven on fire and attacked him...


I mean really, what kind of idiot would do such a thing?

[krisamata]

thats absolutely horrible.



that reminds me of my moms birth mother who told my moms sister that my mom had passed away at the age of 2 from cancer...

then my mom was adopted and kept in canada while my aunt was moved to scotland


so my aunt went 52 years thinking my mom was dead....she never looked for her ...


good thing my mom kept looking ...