Matthew Leveson Missing Person Alert
Summary:Message claims that 20-year-old Matthew Leveson has been missing from the Cronulla area of NSW, Australia since 23 September 2007.
Status:
True
Example:(Submitted, October 2007)
MISSING PERSON
Our dear friend Matthew Leveson Is missing
Has been missing since Sunday 23 September 2007
That is how the girl from Stephens Point was found by circulation of her picture on TV.
The Internet circulates everywhere even overseas.
Please pass this on to everyone you know, everyone in your address book
PLEASE!
It is still not too late. Please help us.
If anyone knows anything or has seen him please contact Miranda Police on 9541 3899 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Send your prayers and thoughts out to Matt,
His family.
Has been missing since Sunday 23 September 2007
NICK NAMES: MATT OR MATTY
DOB: 12/12/1986
AGE: 20
HEIGHT: 5 FT 7
ATHLETIC BUILD APPROX 75 KG
BLEACHED BLONDE HAIR
BLUE EYES
FAIR SKIN
LAST SEEN WEARING: BLACK SINGLET & KAHKI CARGO PANTS
LIVES IN CRONULLA/SUTHERLAND
EMPLOYED IN HURSTVILLE
That is how the girl from Stephens Point was found by circulation of her picture on TV.
The Internet circulates everywhere even overseas.
Please pass this on to everyone you know, everyone in your address book
PLEASE!
It is still not too late. Please help us.
If anyone knows anything or has seen him please contact Miranda Police on 9541 3899 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Send your prayers and thoughts out to Matt,
His family.
Commentary:
The information in this email is true. Twenty-year-old Matthew Leveson was reported missing from Cronulla, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, on 25th September 2007. According to information on a NSW Police website, Matthew was last seen in Cronulla on 23rd September.
A few days after his disappearance police located the man's car, a green 1999 Toyota Corolla Seca hatchback, abandoned nearby in Sutherland. Police now suspect that Matthew may have met with foul play and have appealed for public assistance on the case. Anyone with information about Matthew's disappearance or current whereabouts is urged to contact Miranda police on 9541 3899 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Matthew's family and friends have not given up on finding him alive and have distributed the above email in the hope that some recipients can offer information on the case.
Although the information in the email is factual, the person who created it has, perhaps inadvertently, used a paragraph (shown below) that also forms part of the infamous Penny Brown hoax and its long line of copy-cat hoax emails:
Maybe if everyone passes this on, someone will see him! That is how the girl from Stephens Point was found by circulation of her picture on TV. The Internet circulates everywhere even overseas.Unfortunately, people familiar with these hoax emails may be inclined to dismiss the information about Matthew Leveson as untrue due to the inclusion of this paragraph. This is especially true since a spate of bogus missing teenager emails that use the same paragraph are also currently circulating.
If you have any information at all that could shed light on Matthew Leveson's disappearance, please contact police via one of the phone numbers listed above.
References:
Appeal for assistance to locate missing man - Cronulla
Police fear man has been murdered
Penny Brown hoax
Evan Trembley Missing Child Hoax
Matthew's MySpace Page
Last updated: 10th October 2007
First published: 10th October 2007
Write-up by Brett M. Christensen