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Email HoaxesEmail HoaxesTomato sauce e-mail HoaxAn e-mail is being widely circulated in which it is claimed that a well-known food chain sent letters out to schools warning about tomato sauce which could have been deliberately contaminated with the blood of an HIV+ person. This has also been translated into Afrikaans and the attachment has an official SAPS stamp. Please note that this is yet another hoax that has been circulating in various forms since 2004. See the official SAPS media statement below. South
African Police
Service
Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens Office of the National
Commissioner, Pretoria Kantoor van die Nasionale Kommissaris, Pretoria Website
www.saps.gov.za MEDIA STATEMENT FROM THE
COMMUNICATION AND LIAISON SERVICE IN THE OFFICE OF THE ACTING NATIONAL
COMMISSIONER Pretoria
2008-11-21 (Another hoax e-mail : Tomato sauce infected
with HIV+ blood) An e-mail is being widely circulated in which
it is claimed that a well-known food chain sent letters out to schools warning
about tomato sauce which could have been deliberately contaminated with the
blood of an HIV+ person. This e-mail has been brought to the attention
of the South African Police Service and a thorough enquiry has revealed it to
be a hoax which, unfortunately, is becoming an urban legend. Similar
hoaxes have been discovered on web sites in other countries. The e-mail in question urges people not to use
tomato sauce – or any other sauce – which is not sealed in a sachet because a
man was trapped while putting blood into the tomato sauce at a
restaurant. No such incident is known to the SAPS. The South African Police Service yet again
urges people to ignore this and similar e-mails and SMS’s which are probably
created by a person or persons intent on causing alarm or panic.
Ends. Issued by Director [name removed]. |
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