London Bombing Alert - HOAX
Some people just have far too much time on their hands and the morals and sensitivity of an amoeba….
Seems like a new London Bombing Alert e-mail is filling up inboxes around the World claiming that The Metropolitan Police have warned of an imminent attack on the underground system.
Here’s the text from the e-mail that will probably appear in an e-mail inbox near you soon!
FW: IMPORTANT INFO REGARDING LONDON UNDERGROUND - STATEMENT BEING ISSUED FROM MET
The Metropolitan Police will be strongly advising everyone that the they will be putting officers on tube stations 24/7 for the next week as they highly expect another attack within this time.
The police force have been in meetings all morning and will be publicly confirming this later on this evening. They will be advising the public to avoid the tube at all costs for the time being.
This news will filter through to the media in the next few hours and if it is not in the Evening Standard it will be on the 24 hour news channels.
Please take care on your journeys home, please pass this on to as many people as you know who use the Underground.
Piccadilly Circus & Leicester Square were closed for 3 hours earlier today and the bomb squad carried out a minor controlled explosion around the station area - this is going on all over Central London.
PLEASE BE CAREFUL TRAVELLING
As with all e-mail hoaxes it doesn’t have a timeframe when this attack is supposed to happen, this is so that is can be spread for months, if not years without having to be re-written by the scum that created it. All they want is for people to fall for it so that they can laugh at how naive and stupid they are for believing it.
By all means be alert and take care but don’t fall for the this sort of hoax, only accept such data from a trusted, reliable and accurate source.
Links:
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/tube.asp [Snopes De-bunk of this Hoax]
http://www.met.police.uk/news/terrorist_attacks/ [Metropolitan Police Page]
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