Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Fake website, press release target Missouri coal company

[Comment:  This is funny! It may not be legal, but is sure was creative!]

Fake website, press release target Missouri coal company
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/10/coal.company.hoax/

"A Missouri-based coal company was the victim of a hoax Tuesday after activists set up a fake website saying the company would offer free, custom-branded inhalers to children.  A press release supposedly from Peabody Energy said it was creating a new public health initiative "designed to combat the stigma of asthma among American children." Under the so-called "Coal Cares" initiative, the false statement said, the inhaler actuators would be given to children living within 200 miles of a coal plant, along with coupons good toward purchase of asthma medication."

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