Email warning about 31 Oct

[que90nek]

How many of you have seen a copy of this email that is supposedly from a chic that was dating one of the hijackers...who warned her to stay off of airlines on the 11th and out of malls on the 31st of Oct. i have gotten this email about 15 times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[OhSoPrecious]

I only got it twice~!! :rolleyes:

[Bedroomeyes]

I haven't seen it yet...:rolleyes:

[seductive_tee]

I have been getting that email for the last 2 weeks.....and i have not forwarded once......i'm sure i'll get it atleast 30 times more.

This one girl emailed me and said Tina, girl is this true...you normally send out the warnings......I told her i doubt it.

If it was that woman would be in custody.

[HulaSista]

Originally posted by OhSoPrecious+
Damn, you're POPULAR. . .


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i never got the email ........yet............

[Tastey]

I have not seen it either but I have to agree with Tee. If any woman has that kind of info and is sending it via e-mail the authorities would know about it.

That is unless people are just forwarding it and taking it for truth instead of investigating like they always do with chain e-mails. :rolleyes:

[OhSoPrecious]

This is the first one I received:


This came from a friend......

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Dear relatives & friends !!!

I am not an alarmist by any stretch of the imagination but what I
have found out I thought I'd best pass onto you to take any action you might deem necessary since it concerns us all.

My wife Sally works as a sub teacher in one of our local schools.
One of the teachers there has a daughter whose girl friend was dating an Arab on a frequent basis. This girl friend is a cosmetic rep for a well know company who spends many hours flying around the country.

This guy had a date with the girl a couple of days before the 11th. He never showed up. But she did get an email from him stating NOT to fly anywhere on the 11th and "to stay away from all from malls on Halloween".

Afterwards she went to his apt and it was stripped clean. This has been reported to the local authorities and the FBI to the best of my knowledge.

I do not know if this will be broadcast by the media or kept under
wraps by authorities. But with the situation the way it is I thought it prudent to pass this along to you.



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This is the second one I received:

hey... better safe than sorry.

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.
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 .




Btw. . . Que, if I was out of line for posting these. . . please let me know.. as I wasn't sure to begin with. . and if so. . I apologize and it will never happen again~!! :rolleyes:

[ThickBodyHottie]

um...i'm very popular and have not gotten a one...

[misha]

I haven't gotten this one either. But then, I don't want that kind of stuff coming to my work anyway....the FBI pulled somebody up off a computer one day because of an email he sent a few months ago....I don't need that kind of drama....

plus with the international student population, everybody is very nervous around here.

[Tastey]

The mere fact that 2 different stories are floating on the net leads me to believe it's bogus.

Also isn't that the way the National Enquirer always prints stories by saying a friend of a friend told a source close to the family.

Whatever. :rolleyes:

[OhSoPrecious]

Originally posted by ThickBodyHottie+
um...i'm very popular and have not gotten a one...

I just gave it to you~!! :D LOL

[KissableSexyShortStuff]

I have only seen it from OhSo's posting. I have not gotten it in any emails. My mom has gotten it like 20 times in email at work....:rolleyes:

[Lisa_Lisa]

Excerpt from Urban Legends Reference Pages...www.snopes.com:

Claim: Girl receives letter from her disappeared Afghan boyfriend saying terrorists are going to strike at U.S. malls on Halloween.
Status: False.

Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2001]


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.




Origins: The above-quoted e-mail began circulating on October 5, 2001. Its author, a young lady whose signature block is included in a number of the forwards, has told us she got this story from a friend, who in turn heard it from the warned girl.

Whatever the gal who wrote the e-mail believes about the truthfulness of her friend, this particular story is false. A public information officer at the FBI's National Press Office told us that they've fielded many phone calls about this message, they've checked it out, and they have received no letter of warning from a girl with an Afghan boyfriend.

This story fits neatly into the genre of a number of similar rumors about helped terrorists or compassionate Arabs who are moved to offer specific warnings about upcoming attacks, and thus should most likely be dismissed as just more of the same. ("Helped terrorists" of lore offer such heads up by way of thanks for a kindness done them. "Compassionate Arabs" of rumor offer such intelligence to favored neighbors, usually just before they themselves pack up and leave in the middle of the night. Dozens, if not hundreds, of versions of such tales abound, each told by someone who swears he heard it from someone who knows the person who had the encounter.) Such snippets of lore swing on the belief that those who have foreknowledge of destruction to come would jeopardize the outcome of those events by warning others. Terrorists may very well form friendships among the folk they've temporarily taken on the coloration of, but friendship stops at the line where it might interfere with operations. To think otherwise is to surrender to a form of naïveté that can only be characterized as appallingly wishful thinking.

As for the specifics of this particular e-mailed story, you have to ask why the boyfriend would warn the girl against taking any flights on the 11th of September. Wouldn't he have known if she were planning a trip, especially one only a week away? If the story is purely an expression of lore, this literary device is necessary to further the plot because the caution against air travel on the 11th works to provide credibility to the further warning about more mayhem to come on Halloween. One event validates the other; a device used in other "warning" legends.

[que90nek]

thank you.

seemed bogus! i mean...the guys that did the hijackin were not from afghanistan!!!!!!!!!! they were from egypt and somewhere else!

[Brightness]

These are the types of things that just burn me up :blah: . . .if this lady had gotten the warning prior and had enough sense to follow it for herself wouldn't it stand to reason she'd report it to the FBI immediately and not 2-3 wks later in a freaking email?

I tell you what. . .I have never felt the need or the urge to want to slap people across the face the way they do in the movies to bring them back to sanity. I've heard so many people at work or in public spouting the most unwarranted, ridiculous and above all else FALSE information that it is crazy. . . . .There's this one lady that everytime you see her she's talking about how scared she is, etc. Come on, now. . .fear is normal but HYSTERIA is a little extreme.

[nubianx2]

I've recevied both e-mails quite a few times, and haven't bothered to forward either. I'm always leary about a lot of the e-mails I get. A lot of people are already in a state a panic, this is just another way to continue to push the button.