NSW: Charity urges people not to respond to hoax e mail

AAP General News (Australia)
08-19-1999
NSW: Charity urges people not to respond to hoax e mail

Australian charity Make-A-Wish has urged Internet users not to respond to a hoax chain
e-mail calling on people to help in a campaign to raise funds for a sick child.

The Foundation says the fraudulent e-mail is claimed to have been written by a seriously
ill seven-year-old girl whose family cannot afford life-saving medical treatment.

The e-mail asks people to continue sending the e-mail and for every person on the list of
recipients, a seven-cent donation would be made to the child by the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Make-A-Wish chief executive officer TONY WALSH says the foundation, as a matter of policy,
does not provide monies or grant wishes that involve funding medical treatment for children.

He says Make-A-Wish Foundation of Australia's sole objective is the granting of the most
cherished wishes to children under 18 with a life-threatening illness.

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