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missing girl - Fiction According to Truth or Fiction

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Posted by: tb7294

Help Find Nine-Year old Penny Brown-Fiction!


Summary of eRumor:

An appeal from a mother to help locate her missing 9 year old daughter, Penny Brown.


The Truth:

This has been circulating long enough and without any evidence whatsoever that it is true that we are classifying it as fiction.

In a classic act of Internet integrity, someone has added that she is the subject of an "Amber Alert," a system of immediately notifying law enforcement and media of a missing child.
There is no amber alert, of course, because the story is not real.

Several things...

1. There is no evidence with any missing persons organization or law enforcement agency about a girl of this age and identity.

2. The email address given for response is no longer operating.

3. Some versions say they are from a woman from the University of Calgary, Monzine Jang. She is real but has nothing to do with the story and is getting weary of all the phone calls. She doesn't know how her name got involved. She has been concerned enough about it, however, that she's checked with missing persons organizations and law enforcement agencies in her area of Canada, but with no success at finding anything.

4. Other versions say the email is from Carol R. Carreón of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Texas at Austin. She says she regards the email as a hoax and that it was merely forwarded to the school.

5. Another version says she is the daughter of the manager of a Long's Drugstore in Southern California.

6. Still another version says she is the daughter of a store manager from Longs, South Carolina.

6. The appeal in this eRumor is similar wording to other missing child hoaxes.

7. If this person was really interested in getting help, she would give more information such as the location where the girl was last seen and any law enforcement agency that would want to receive any tips.


Quote:
Please look at this picture, read what her father says, then forward his message on.

Maybe if everyone passes this on, someone will see this child. That is how the girl from Stevens Point was found by circulation of her picture on TV. The internet circulates even overseas South America , and Canada etc. Thanks

Please pass this to everyone in your address book.

I am a store manager (Wal-Mart) from Longs, SCwho has a 9 year old daughter who has been missing for 2 weeks. Her name is Penny Brown. Please keep her picture moving on. With God's help, she will be found.

I am asking you all, begging you to please forward this email on to anyone and everyone you know, PLEASE.

It is still not too late. Please help us. If anyone any where knows anything, please contact me at: zicozicozic**hotmail.com I am including a picture of her. All prayers are appreciated!!

It only takes 2 seconds to forward this.

If it was your child, you would want all the help you could get.



Posted by: Jon Henry

I called the Walmart store nearest to Longs, Sc in Myrtle Beach. Talked to an asistant store manager there who said that there was no manager there named Brown and no Walmart in Longs. She said this was a lie that has been circulating for almost two years, there is no missing child named Penny Brown. Look at the email address in the hotmail domain. It seems to be pronounced sicko sicko sicko **hotmail. etc . If you have received an email with this pic and request it is most likely a trojan horse virus. If you see it in your inbox, do not open it. delete it immediately an notify your ISP to treat it as spam.

Your brother in Christ
Jon Henry