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03-01-2005, 15:58
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Man held over cruel emails
Man held over cruel emails
Wreckage ... Patong beach, Phucket By MIKE SULLIVAN Crime Editor (www.thesun.co.uk) A MAN was under arrest last night after families of missing Britons were sent bogus Foreign Office emails saying loved ones had died. One heartbroken mother was told her son was dead only for him to ring the next day to say he was safe. Police believe dozens of distraught families received the sick emails after posting details about missing relatives on the Sky News website. The fake messages, claiming to be from the Foreign Office Bureau in Thailand, said their loved ones had been confirmed as dead. Heartbroken Henry Simon, 62, whose son Piers was found dead in Thailand after an agonising five day search, said: “There are some really sick people out there. “When Piers was missing our friends and neighbours used the internet to look for news and posted messages on websites. “It is deplorable to think anyone would take pleasure in sending hoax messages like this. “I feel so sorry for anyone who has received these emails.” The cruel con is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police specialist crime computer unit. They arrested a man at his home in Lincolnshire. A spokesman said: “We would like to reassure the public that these messages are hoaxes. The British Government would not use email to convey news of the death of a loved one.” A MAN aged 40 was last night charged with sending a malicious communication and causing a public nuisance. He has not been named, for his own safety 
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03-01-2005, 16:24
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diasters bring out the worst of our human race hopefully this idot will get what he deserves.
it can also bring out the best which seem to me, far outways idiots like him.
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03-01-2005, 16:56
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Unbelievable to hear that sort of thing,
Im feel so sorry for the poor families who must have endured such pain, He'll get his Im sure. God bless everyone, we pray for you and have donated and will as much as we can from now on. 
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31-01-2005, 20:12
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Six months for tsunami hoaxer who sent e-mails to families
A man who sent hoax e-mails to family and friends of people missing in the tsunami disaster falsely confirming their deaths was jailed for six months yesterday.
Christopher Pierson, 40, wrote e-mails to 35 victims' relatives claiming to be from the British Government. Having taken the e-mail addresses of worried relatives from the Sky News website, he wrote to "confirm" that missing people were dead. Jailing him, Judge Daphne Wickham said the hurt and pain he had put his victims through was "indescribable". Bow Street magistrates' court was told that Pierson, a father-of-three from Ruskington, Lincs, set up a bogus e-mail account on New Year's Eve and logged on to the Sky News site, where people had posted their addresses in an attempt to get information about a loved one. Tim Chittenden, prosecuting, said the e-mail address he set up – ukgovfofficeataol.com – purported to be from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office staff based in Thailand. It stated: "The UK Government regretted to inform the recipient that the missing person they were inquiring about was confirmed dead." After three recipients contacted Sky News querying the content, the police were called in and traced Pierson through his internet account. Analysis of his computer showed the bogus e-mail account was created at 0.11am on New Year's Eve and a test e-mail was sent to Pierson two minutes later. A further 35 e-mails were found to have been sent from the same computer. His batch of e-mails on New Year's Eve had a devastating effect on the recipients. A statement from one read: "The suffering that that e-mail caused I cannot explain – not knowing who was telling the truth, it was such a cruel thing to do. ''I hope the person who did this will never know the suffering they have caused and will be punished." The police were forced to set up an incident room and spent 10 days trying to contact those families and friends affected. Pierson had already pleaded guilty to one count of public nuisance and a charge under Section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act, and yesterday he admitted a further charge of obtaining property by deception and asked for two unspecified related offences to be taken into account. Miss Wickham said: "The emotional hurt through which you put over 30 people that week... and not just those 30 but all the extended family, friends and loved ones was indescribable. ''There was an element of planning, indeed there was planning certainly to the contents of the e-mail, which has attracted media outrage and quite rightly." Andrew McArthur, defending, said Pierson had effectively had a breakdown, suffering bereavement and the pressure of looking after his seriously ill 12-year-old son. He said Pierson had suffered much personal tragedy in his life, including the death of his first son, who was still-born. When Pierson saw the image of a tsunami survivor clutching their own dead son, it triggered a highly emotional reaction. Mr McArthur said: "He somehow saw that by sending these e-mails he was providing some sort of closure to the relatives and families of those people who may have been killed due to the tsunami. It was through no malice but was a quite bizarre effort to help." Mr McArthur said that on top of caring for his 12-year-old diabetic son Kyle, Pierson was looking after his mother who was suffering breast cancer, his father who had a stroke last year and his aunt who has just been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Pierson told the court: "I am ashamed of what I have done. I regret that I have hurt anyone.'' Ch Supt **** Quinn, of the Metropolitan Police, said: "This case should serve as a strong deterrent to anyone thinking of sending similar hoax messages. We treat crimes of this nature very seriously."
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16-08-2005, 21:40
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Another hoax tsunami email
August 16, 2005
Tsunami relatives sent 'sick' hoax e-mail by Paul Platt, Times Online Families of dead or missing tsunami victims have been sent hoax e-mails claiming that their loved ones have been found alive and recovering in Thailand. One British family received a message titled "Your lost one in the Tsunami has been found", even though their son’s body has been recovered. The Metropolitan Police says that similar e-mails are going to grieving families in other countries, in what could be a scam to extort money families caught up in the Boxing Day disaster that killed at least 230,000 people in 13 countries, including about 140 Britons. The hoax claims to come from a non-governmental organisation called "Missing Tsunami Victims" and has been sent from a Yahoo e-mail address, with return addresses given at Hotmail and walla.com. It is signed "Nancy Doyles", a name used in two earlier tsunami-related e-mail scams. Lorraine Williams, a Metropolitan police spokeswoman, said that an investigation had been launched and added: "Neither police nor the Foreign and Commonwealth Office recognise this organisation. "We suspect the e-mailer is not British given that the grammar of the e-mail isn’t good, but our specialists will look at it and see where it came from. "The family that received this are aware that their son is dead and it was particularly distressing for them. "Anyone who replied would probably enter into a dialogue with the hoaxer and it could perhaps be a scam to extort credit card details by offering to buy a flight out to Thailand. We are treating it as a financial scam." Police suspect that the e-mail details of relatives and friends were harvested from websites and news services during the immediate aftermath of the disaster. Ms Williams added: "In the early days people were desperate for information and a lot of contact details were posted. The hoaxer has likely taken them from the internet. "We have very close contact with loved ones of the victims and we would keep them up to date on any developments. Email would not be used. "It’s a sick crime and if we can prosecute the hoaxer we will. You have to question the motives of anyone that adds to the distress of grieving relatives." Police are asking anyone who receives the e-mail, or any similar message, not to reply, but to forward it to police at fraud.alert@met.police.uk The hoaxer is the latest to prey on tsunami victims and a sympathetic public. Christopher Pierson, 40, of Ruskington, Lincolnshire, was jailed for six months in January for sending 35 messages to families and friends of people missing in the tsunami disaster saying that they were dead. In June a hoaxer marred the Marylebone Cricket Club’s tsunami relief match at Lord's by making a false bid of £50,000 to face an over from Shane Warne and take a batting masterclass from Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar. In April British volunteers travelling to help Asian tsunami victims were robbed of cash and passports by hoaxers. Manchester University students Kerry Dunstan and a friend answered a website appeal to join a project in Thailand. After arriving they handed over their passports and £185 to their guides, whom they never saw again. In January an e-mail said to be a plea for help in identifying a young tsunami victim was declared a fake. The family of Swede Hannes Bergstroem called for people to ignore the message because the two-year-old was reunited with his father, Marko, three days after the Indian Ocean earthquake and the tsunami. In the previous "Nancy Doyles" e-mails, the suspected fraudster asked for money to reach a £1m target for the so-called Tsunami Relief Organisation. An earlier scam asked for cash to help fund a football team to be comprised of promising international talent from areas affected by the disaster. The message claimed the Dublin-based team had enlisted Premier League coaches and asked for potential players to send money to cover their air fares to a Bangkok training camp. Full text of latest hoax: YOUR LOST ONE IN THE TSUNAMI HAS BEEN FOUND Dear, I am ms Nancy doyles,co-ordinator of a non governmental organisation by name(MISSING TSUNAMI VICTIMS)This is an organisation that helps in locating missing survivors of the Tsunami and rejoining them to their families and loved ones. We just found your lost one and he is currently in a local hospital here in phuket thailand receiving treatments,reply me and you will arrange on how to come to thailand urgently and meet him in hospital. Awaiting your reply. Nancy
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16-08-2005, 22:10
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If a BG sent me an email saying that her mum's buffalo had died, and if I knew the buffalo very well, maybe I would kill myself too.
Sorry if I am probably "light" on a subject that is not funny at all, my way to exorcise  But yes, these "jokes" can hurt a lot, and the people who do that just deserve to live the same tragedy 
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Domi Last edited by domifletch : 16-08-2005 at 22:12.
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17-08-2005, 02:32
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For everybody with a good internet connection there is a way to let scamsters like this pay a price : SCAMBAITING .More info at http://www.419eater.com/index.htm
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