“Amber Alert” message circulating via social media and email claims that a three-year-old child has been kidnapped by a man driving a grey car with the license plate 72B 381.
missing child
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Email forwards asks recipients to help find four year old Madeleine McCann by passing on her photograph and information about her abduction.
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Email forward claims that 15-year-old Evan Trembley is missing and asks recipients to pass on the message in the hope that someone has seen him.
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Message claims that 17 year-old Yohana Ravelo is missing from her Coral Gables, Florida home.
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Email forward claims that 13-year-old Ashley Flores is missing from Philadelphia.
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Email message claims that a fifteen year old boy named Michael Hunt is missing from Longs South Carolina.
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Unsubstantiated
UNSUBSTANTIATED – ‘Possible Maddy McCann Sighting at Football Game Stadium’
by Brett M. Christensen May 22, 2014Outline Viral social media message suggests that a picture taken from TV coverage of a European football game may show missing English…
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Outdated
RESOLVED – Missing Teen Devon Ward Has Been Located and is Safe
by Brett M. Christensen August 16, 2013Circulating social media message claims that 14-year-old Devon Ward is missing and asks users to share his photograph and description in the hope that someone has seen him.
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Misleading
False Child Abduction Alert – ‘Lilly Snatched From Surrey’
by Brett M. Christensen July 15, 2013Circulating social media message claims that 3-year-old Lilly was snatched from the surrey area of the UK within the last hour.
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Hoaxes
Amber Alert Hoax – Mitsubishi Eclipse With Plate Number 98B351
by Brett M. Christensen February 14, 2011Message purporting to be an Amber Alert claims that a three-year-old boy was taken by a man in Rochester MI driving a 2006 Mitsubishi Eclipse with the number plate 98B351.
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