Evan Trembley Missing Child Hoax
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The claim
Email forward claims that 15-year-old Evan Trembley is missing and asks recipients to pass on the message in the hope that someone has seen him.
Subject: Evan Trembley
Amber Alert.
Staff Sergeant Rick Williams
Wichita Falls Police Dept.
1007 N. Elm St.
Wichita Falls, Texas 76310
[Phone Number Removed]
Please look at the picture, read what his mother says (below), then forward this message on. – Sometimes Internet Reports have produced remarkable results.
What the fact-checkers found
The message is a hoax and should not be forwarded. Evan is a real person, but he is not missing. Evan himself created the fake alert in 2007 as a practical joke for his friends. The “joke” soon spread far and wide and has circulated ever since.
Update:
A mutated version of the hoax claims that Evan is missing from Charters Towers, a town located in north Queensland, Australia.
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