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HOAX: Amber Alert License Plate '98B351'
Monday October 5, 2009

Text and Twitter messages falsely claiming a 3-year-old boy was abducted by a man driving a 2006 Mitsubishi Eclipse, license number 98B351, are currently circulating in California and Oregon. Police in both states say the plate number is invalid and no such Amber Alert is in effect.

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