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We’ve spotted yet another hoax about a missing child circulating on Facebook. The story is not only false, but contains a link to what appears to be an unsafe website.

An 8-year-old girl was kidnapped from Porthmadog, Wales.This is a hoax linking to a potentially unsafe website. The post shows an image of a girl who went missing in the USA in 2019.

A fake news story being shared on Facebook claims that an 8-year-old girl has been kidnapped while walking with her mother in Wales. This post is not true, and it contains a link to what appears to be an unsafe website, which is why we have not included the link in this article. Attempting to access the site prompts a warning from Google that it has been “identified as a forgery, intended to trick you into disclosing financial, personal or other sensitive information”.

The link attached to the post shows an image of a girl wearing a pink top, with the article claiming that she was kidnapped from Porthmadog in Wales and hasn’t been seen for nearly 24 hours. This image is actually of another girl, named Serenity Dennard, who went missing in South Dakota, USA, in February 2019.

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