Make-A-Wish Chain Letters?
I often receive e-mails from friends and family propogating false e-mails. For instance, Bill Gates will not send you a check if you forward an e-mail and boycotting gasoline will not drive gas prices down.
As with other charities, there are a number of Make-A-Wish® e-mails that circulate. You may have gotten these. As expected, they did not originate from Make-A-Wish®:
Each day, the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America and chapters receive hundreds of inquiries regarding chain letters claiming to be associated with the Make-A-Wish Foundation. As a matter of policy, the Make-A-Wish Foundation does not conduct these types of wishes – including Internet and e-mail requests.
Most of e-mails are completely false. One e-mail, however, was partially true. The e-mail involved a boy whose wish was to get in the Guinness Book of World Records for receiving the most greeting cards. His wish was granted 16 years ago by a different wish-granting charity. If you send a card to that address now, the mail is simply forwarded to a recycling center.
Make sure to get all your information directly from the Make-A-Wish Foundation® of America at wish.org. They help thousands of kids each year . . . just not the ones in those e-mails! If you're interested in donating to Make-A-Wish®, please consider sponsoring my Blogathon efforts. More information can be found on my Blogathon Sponsorship page.
If you're unsure about any type of e-mail along these lines, visit Snopes.com to check the facts. They even have a category dedicated to e-mails. I wrote a post about Snopes in May of 2006.
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