HI friend, recently I got this mail: If you delete this ... you seriously don't have a heart. Hi, I am a 29 year old father. Me and my wife have had a wonderful life together. God blessed us with a child too. Our daughter's name is Rachel, and she is 10 years old. Not long ago the doctors detected brain cancer and in her little body. There is only one way to save her...an operation. Sadly, we don't have enough money to pay the price. AOL and ZDNET have agreed to help us. The only way they can help us is this way, I send this email to you and you send it to other people. AOL will track this email and count how many people get it. Every person who opens this email and sends it to at least 3 people will give us 32 cents. Please help us. Sincerely EOF So is it AOL and ZDNET really gave money to them? If not, why that man want to send this kind of joke? Is it virus?

For more information about this email that is making the rounds please see the links below: http://hoaxinfo.com/rachel.htm http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa111500a.htm http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blarlington.htm http://www.f-secure.com/hoaxes/cancercl.shtml http://www.nerdherd.com/hoaxes/dc/rachelarlington.php Michael

e-mail is untraceable like that. Suppose you send a copy of it to two people. Each person will be able to see you and where you got it from, but they won't know that you sent it to someone else people write hoaxes like this to see how long it will last. There's one that's been circulating around for 10 years now i think. I guess people get a kick out of writing a story that everyone passes around

anyone remember chain letters? and now you don't even have to pay postage:)

sue - lol! However these kind of emails are not "free". Someone is paying for all the bandwidth they use.

Heres what you do.. If your mail provider lets you block mail by subject line.. Block FW and no more stupid jokes or hoaxes get forwarded to you.

i have had this message too and it HAS been reported as just a hoax so dont listen to it. also you might get E-mails telling you you have a virus on your computer and too delete it. usually it makes you do a search for a file name and then tells you to delete it. Loads of different things. but that e-mail isnt a virus, just trying to annoy people lol...ignore it