Fax or Fiction: When Urban Legends Spread By Fax Machine
In 1993 — before email became the standard form of professional communication — facsimile machine auto in Memphis , Tennessee , lead off sprinkle out strange documents . Instead of the teetotal data that office workers had do to expect — like HR insurance and expense reports — the text edition warned of a “ blood foundation ” and gang cleanup targeting random citizen . The faxes appeared to fall fromofficial sourcesconnected to the police , and though the exact beginning was n’t always clear , that did n’t weigh ....