Pre Clerkship Curriculum
Home of CBE
MD Program at Einstein

Important Message regarding;

Dr.Dennis Shields and chain mail about girl with cancer.

The message is a hoax.

The American Cancer Society has repeatedly denied any knowledge or involvement with this message.

Dr. Dennis Sheilds is a faculty member at AECOM and he does have an e-mail address.

However, information received from earlier complaints show that his name was signed to the message but it was not sent from his e-mail address.

This suggests that this message is a forgery.

The best way to deal with these nuisance letters is to
a) ignore them or
b) send a message back to the person who most directly sent you the message.

In other words, although Dr. Sheilds name was signed to the main part of the message, I am willing to bet it reached you after being forwarded several times and someone you know sent you the copy.

Complain to the person you know. If that e-mail address turns out to be fake (i.e. you get a message back telling you so) then complain to the administrator of the host machine

(for example, if the message was sent to you by bogus@hotmail.com and that turns out to be a bad address, complain to postmaster@hotmail.com).

If you got the message because you belong to a mailing list, complain to the person managing the mailing list.

 

FYI-

original message : included the following

request of a little girl .........,just your time....

PLEASE PASS ON
Dr. Dennis Shields
Professor Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
1300 Morris Park Avenue Bronx, New York 10461
Phone 718-***-**** Fax 718-***-****

-----------------End of Original

 

For more on SPAM

 

M.D. Program - Admissions | Calendar | Courses | Electives | Faculty Web R&D |
Office of Education - Directory | Web Services |