Hoax Missing kids emails - put a stop to them

They seem to come round like a rash – you know the type the "please help us find our missing child."

They tug at your heart strings – so you – being busy – forward it on to everyone in your mail box, thinking you have done a good dead. Sadly, all you have done is forward on a hoax and blocked up the internet for a nanosecond.

The imbeciles who first launched these hoaxes have got to be completely unthinking and uncaring – thinking that this is some sort of entertainment. It sickens me that some person could be so mean spirited as to write and launch a hoax about a fictional missing child in a world where so many real children have disappeared. You only have to look at a milk bottle or on the corner at the flapping pages of yellowed paper to see the beautiful eyes of precious children who have for one reason or another gone missing for real.

The one that is going round at the moment is the Evan Trembly one - and he started it himself as a joke ( kinda got out of hand) there are plenty of hoax checking websites to see if the email you have gotten is a hoax or not - but check out this one to see the full story on hoax missing kid emails here

I cannot believe it has been 5 years now that Daniel Morcombe went missing – just before Christmas. He has become like a little brother to so many Australians – his smiling face plastered everywhere - the horror of what unknown fate befell him after an innocent bus ride to buy presents for his family.

For more info on Dan see here I truely hope for his families sake that some sort of answer is found soon. I cannot image how horrific it must be to stumble through your days hoping for a scap of information to come through.

Another sickening one is Madeline McCann see here

Seeing her little face brings a wave of despair across my body and I am sick to the pit of my stomach, tears still form in my eyes thinking about that family and what they have gone through – especially with the media – only out for a sensational story – be it true or not.

Hoaxes like these missing kids emails are not harmless. They weaken the power of email and the Internet as a tool for disseminating information about genuine missing person cases. It stops the trust in the goodness of a stranger – of reliable information.

If you receive these hoax types email, please do not forward it to others. If you are compelled to forward info on - just google it first - you can easily find out if its true or not with a few clicks of your keyboard.