| NAME: | Terrorist attacks on malls hoax |
| ALIAS: | Malls, Halloween attack |
In beginning of October 2001 several people have received
a following hoax warning about possible terrorist attacks
on shopping malls at Halloween. This warning is a typical
urban legend and should not be taken seriously.
If you receive this message or similar please ignore it do not pass it on.
For more information see:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blmall-terror.htm
The message below is a hoax:
Subject: FW: Malls on 10/31
Hi All -
I think you all know that I don't send out hoaxes and don't do the
reactionary thing and send out anything that crosses my path. This one,
however, is a friend of a friend and I've given it enough credibility in
my mind that I'm writing it up and sending it out to all of you.
My friend's friend was dating a guy from Afghanistan up until a
month ago. She had a date with him around 9/6 and was stood up. She was
understandably upset and went to his home to find it completely emptied.
On 9/10, she received a letter from her boyfriend explaining that he
wished he could tell her why he had left and that he was sorry it had to
be like that. The part worth mentioning is that he BEGGED her not to
get on any commercial airlines on 9/11 and to not to go any malls on
Halloween. As soon as everything happened on the 11th, she called the
FBI and has since turned over the letter.
This is not an email that I've received and decided to pass on. This came
from a phone conversation with a long-time friend of mine last night.
I may be wrong, and I hope I am. However, with one of his warnings
being correct and devastating, I'm not willing to take the chance on the
second and wanted to make sure that people I cared about had the same
information that I did.
