Most Beautiful Mummy Good Luck Chain Letter
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The claim
Email chain letter with an attached photograph of a child mummy claims that those who send the message to twenty friends will receive good luck.
Subject: Lucky Mummy
The most beautiful mummy in the world!!!
This girl died from a disease at 5 year’s old.
Her mother asked a doctor to make her a mummy and kept it in an Italian temple, it’s already 80 years.
Believe or not
Are you unlucky recently?
1. I’m an engineer; I was promoted as supervisor in one week after I forwarded this message.
2. I’m a stroked man, and I can walk one month later after I forward this message.
3. I’m areca vendor in Taipei, I sold two or three times as usual after I send this to my friend.
4. I’m student of Minx in college (Taipei), I passed all the exams after I sent this message
Good luck will be your house five days later you! send this short message to 20 friends!
What the fact-checkers found
The photograph is genuine and depicts the remains of a child named Rosalia Lombardo who died around 1920. However, the claim that forwarding the message will bring good luck to the recipient is utter nonsense.
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