WTF?????? I cant believe what I've just read!!

[Zephyrcat]

here

[JanH]

Bastards.

[DelGirl]

only brings up the AOL page zephyr

[tillykins]

AOL homepage????

[Zephyrcat]

Sorry - AOL news. Someone has made an AOL email address to look like a british government address and is sending emails to families of people who have registered to look for their loved ones -saying they are dead.

Sick.

[DelGirl]

[JanH]

Friends and relatives desperately seeking news of loved ones after the Asian tsunami have been plagued by hoax emails saying they are dead.

Messages purportedly from Government officials have been sent to people who placed appeals for information on the Sky News Web site.

Police said they were treating the matter as a "very serious crime" and have launched a full investigation.

A spokesman said: "The Metropolitan Police Service 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."

The hoax emails have all been sent from the same bogus address: [email protected].

They claim to come from the "Foreign Office Bureau" in Thailand and state that the missing person has been confirmed dead.

Anyone receiving such an email has been advised to treat it with the "utmost caution".

If caught the hoaxers could face charges of malicious communication or causing a public nuisance.

"Sky is disgusted at the abuse of this messageboard, designed for friends and relatives caught up in the tsunami disaster,'' the broadcaster said.

[JanH]

Surely aol will be able to find out who this is?

[Zephyrcat]

Hopefully. What is wrong with some people???

[DelGirl]

what a sick world we live in, unbelieveable

[SeaShells]

What a sick f**er!

WHY??????????????? What did they get out of doing it?????????????

[Gobbledigook]

OMG. Sick bastards.

Lock em up and throw away the key.

[hunkermunker]

That's the problem with AOL boards - your screenname is also your email address.

Sick sick people out there. I hope they catch them.

[Hulababy]

OMG So sick. Hope they can "get" who ever is sending them.

[NameChangingMancMidlander]

What is the point ?

Disgusting people

[juniperdewdrop]

hope they rot in hell the b@rs#a!ds

[KateandtheElves]

Oh that's awful.

After 9/11 I had my email addy all over the place in hopes that anyone who had any information about my husband would contact me. I can't imagine how Iwould have been if I'd received an email like that only to find out it was fake.

[Amanda3266]

Read this today. Some people are just twisted and sick.

[coppertop]

That is so sick. B*st@rds!

[TwoIfBySea]

I heard on the news that it was a 40-year-old man.

How warped in the head would you need to be to do this kind of thing?

Hope he gets a prison sentence or a very hefty fine. Or both!

[MrsBigDrumsADrumming]

prison's to good for people like that!