The Carmen Winstead story is a classic Internet "urban legend." The story started on MySpace from three teenage girls trying to see how many friends they could get from it.

According to the story, Carmen was accidentally killed when her "friends" pushed her down a sewer. Now she will visit a horrible death upon anybody who doesn't post her story on their MySpace page. Later versions of this story were sent as more conventional e-mail chain letters. There's also a nearly identical version with a victim named Jessica Smith.

There is NO news report from any reliable news agency that records any story similar to the Carmen Winstead / Jessica Smith hoaxes.