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Ashley Flores Missing Child Hoax

Fact-check by Hoax-SlayerPublished 1 min read

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The claim

Email forward claims that 13-year-old Ashley Flores is missing from Philadelphia.

Please circulate this — what if it was your daughter?. “I am asking you all, begging you to please forward this msg on to anyone and everyone you know, PLEASE. My 13 year old girl, Ashley Flores, is missing. She has been missing for two weeks It only takes 2 seconds to forward this. If it was your child, you would want all the help you could get. Louise Louw Tel: [Numbers Removed]

Rated Hoax by Hoax-Slayer.

What the fact-checkers found

The message is a hoax. Ashley Flores is a real person but she is not, nor has she ever been, missing. The hoax has now been circulating around the world for over four years.

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