If you’ve received this email about a missing 13 year-old girl, Ashley Flores, either Reply-All that this is a hoax, or simply delete the email.
Again, this is a hoax.
Subject: MISSING CHILD
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.
We have a Deli manager (Acme Markets) from Philadelphia, Pa who has a 13 year old daughter who has been missing for 2 weeks. Keep the picture moving on. With luck on her side she will be found.
“I am asking you all, begging you to please forward this email on to anyone and everyone you know, PLEASE. My 13 year old girl, Ashley Flores, is missing. She has been missing for now two weeks.
It is still not too late. Please help us. If anyone any where knows anything, please contact me at: HelpfindAshleyFlores@yahoo.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.
While there is an Ashley Flores in Philadelphia, she isn’t thirteen and she isn’t missing. In fact, this email was cobbled together from several previous missing-child emails and sent out as a prank. Unfortunately, it has tied up resources of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and various law enforcement agencies who diligently look into cases like this.
What happened was that Ashley’s friend, Vixter609, sent out the email as a joke sometime in May, 2006 and people took it seriously and wanted to help. Obviously Vixter609 is not a deep thinker and probably meant no harm, but it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that this sort of nonsense can interfere with efforts to find real missing children.
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I think the people sending these false missing children reports should be charged with a crime.Missing children should never be a joke.
Missing children are definitely not a joke, and people should know better. It’d be tough to get any charges to stick to an irresponsible kid who sends an ill-advised and tasteless “joke” in an email.
Just more evidence that people need to spend a couple minutes of double-checking to make sure they’re forwarding a legit warning when they get something like this. Blindly sending stuff like this around fuels the fire.
I agree! I had a friend who had a sister missing for a week. It was NOT a good situation.
She finally came home on her own. When I got this e-mail through myspace I e-mailed the e-mail provided. It came back to me saying there was no such e-mail address.
It is not something to joke about. I agree, they should be charged.
have you found Ashley yet
I got your Daughter’s picture on my phone I was just wondering if you have found her yet
@Barbara – Did you miss the part about it being a hoax, or are you kidding?
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