This is a hoax. The best way to see if an email is a hoax (and most are) google the subject of the sentence and then put hoax after it and there you are
Update: Police: gang initiation e-mail a hoax
By Ryan Seals
Staff Writer
FRIDAY, JAN. 4, 2008 4:21 PM
GREENSBORO — Greensboro police advised Friday that a series of e-mails sent to residents regarding plotted gang initiations are a hoax and should not be forwarded.
The e-mails, which are reported to come from a writer named "Carla," indicate a gang initiation that involves members stopping a victim at a red light, asking them to roll down the driver's window for directions and then shooting the victim in the face.
Assistant Police Chief Dwight Crotts said the e-mails are part of a well-known hoax that has been circulated all over the country.
"We have not responded to any calls like this in the city or the county," Crotts said.
In this case, as with all gang hoax e-mails, Crotts said police have looked at the e-mail, traced its origin and found that the message has been cut and pasted from another location and adapted locally as the hoax has spread.
"What we have seen in on the e-mail copies that we have — the e-mail will have a letter attached from a specific person, but that person doesn't exist," Crotts said. "There is not an e-mail from somebody named 'Carla,' and there is not a 'Carla' to be found (in tracing the e-mail.)"
At face value, the "Carla" e-mail may seem legitimate because it references a local gang crime — a Dec. 8 MS-13 gang-related shooting at Las Jarochitas on High Point Road that left two people dead, along with remarking about another recent shooting along N.C. 68.
Crotts said those references are another giveaway that the e-mail is a hoax because the N.C. 68 shooting never happened and the High Point Road shooting is from where someone adapted the e-mail to make it seem more legitimate, which is common.
"They adapt wherever they go. They'll pick up whatever is local," Crotts said.
Another sign of a hoax is that e-mail is full of spelling errors, including calling MS-13 — M-13.
Crotts advises residents who receive such e-mails not to forward them and to notify their local law enforcement agency.
Contact Ryan Seals at 373-7077 or
ryan.seals@news-record.com
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