Daniel Morcombe Email (Not a hoax)
Summary:Email intends to raise awareness about the case of missing Australian teenager, Daniel Morcombe
Status:
True (THIS IS NOT A HOAX)
Example:(Received via email, 2004)
Hello everyone
Many of you will have seen reports or ads about a missing schoolboy Daniel Morcombe from the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.
Daniel has been missing for five months today.
He's my nephew, and my brother Bruce and his wife Denise, have raised over $100,000 to fund an advertising campaign which is currently underway, in an attempt to solve Daniel's abduction, and hopefully to capture the person or persons involved.
There has been wonderful coverage of this tragic event, including "Australian Story" on the ABC, and a major article in the current edition of "The Australian Women's Weekly", but still the crime is not solved.
The police now think two men were probably involved, together with a "blue car" as per the composite photo below.
Sending out emails may hopefully trigger someone's memory, or someone's conscience, and makes the image of Daniel and the "blue car" below available for longer than is available on an ad.
It would be greatly appreciated if you could forward this email on to all your email contacts, friends, relatives and business contacts, in the hope that someone will be able to provide the missing clue that the police are looking for.
If everyone has just five email contacts, who each have five email contacts, who each have five email contacts, who each have five email contacts, that'll be well over a million people we'll be reaching.
Thanks a lot - it's really appreciated.
PS. Don't forget to ask your email contacts to forward your email on to as many people as they can.
HAVE YOU SEEN DANIEL?
Many of you will have seen reports or ads about a missing schoolboy Daniel Morcombe from the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.
Daniel has been missing for five months today.
He's my nephew, and my brother Bruce and his wife Denise, have raised over $100,000 to fund an advertising campaign which is currently underway, in an attempt to solve Daniel's abduction, and hopefully to capture the person or persons involved.
There has been wonderful coverage of this tragic event, including "Australian Story" on the ABC, and a major article in the current edition of "The Australian Women's Weekly", but still the crime is not solved.
The police now think two men were probably involved, together with a "blue car" as per the composite photo below.
Sending out emails may hopefully trigger someone's memory, or someone's conscience, and makes the image of Daniel and the "blue car" below available for longer than is available on an ad.
It would be greatly appreciated if you could forward this email on to all your email contacts, friends, relatives and business contacts, in the hope that someone will be able to provide the missing clue that the police are looking for.
If everyone has just five email contacts, who each have five email contacts, who each have five email contacts, who each have five email contacts, that'll be well over a million people we'll be reaching.
Thanks a lot - it's really appreciated.
PS. Don't forget to ask your email contacts to forward your email on to as many people as they can.
HAVE YOU SEEN DANIEL?
Commentary:
Let me make clear at the outset that the quoted email is not a hoax. All of the major points in the email are true. Young Daniel Morcombe was abducted from the Sunshine Coast in Queensland Australia in December 2003.
As a parent, I cannot even begin to imagine the horror of having a child abducted and my heart goes out to his family.
Although the email primarily targets an Australian audience, copies are almost sure to make their way to non-Australian inboxes as well. Wherever you live in the world, please take a moment to read the information in the email and look at the pictures included. Daniel could be anywhere, and the smallest clue could help find him.
An undesirable result of hoax emails is that they diffuse the power and reach of legitimate emails like this one. Because hoax emails about non-existent missing children are not uncommon, many may dismiss the Daniel Morcombe email as a hoax without checking its veracity. As any hoax writer knows, forwarded emails can reach a vast and diverse audience in all corners of the globe. It is a real shame that a valid request about a real missing person might not reach as wide an audience because of the foolish creations of some loser hoax writer.
To report information about Daniel, call Crime Stoppers:
Telephone: 1800 333 000 (Toll Free) or
1800 800 400 (Outside Queensland Toll Free)
Daniel Morcombe Website
Crime Stoppers Missing person Report
Australia Story Link
Write-up by Brett M.Christensen