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Hoax – Collect Bottle Caps For Free Cancer Chemotherapy Treatment – Hoax-Slayer

Outline

Circulating messages request people to save all types of bottle caps because the caps can be exchanged for free cancer treatment for children.  





Brief Analysis

The claims in the message are untrue. Bottle caps cannot be exchanged for free chemotherapy sessions or any other form of cancer treatment. The supposed charity drive is a hoax that began in the United States in 2008. Reposting this false and misleading information will do nothing whatsoever to help children with cancer.

Examples

Attention all Family Members and Friends: Want to feel good and do something easy. Well I am asking you to save all your plastic lids. Yes I said it plastic lids. There is a little girl out there who is 13 years old and she has CANCER, White Castle are collecting plastic lids: (Laundry soap caps, coke caps, milk caps, bottle water caps, fabic softner caps…etc) for every 100 caps she collects she gets 1 hour of free “Chemo” threapy. Lets pull together and collect those CAPS!

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