OFF topic but PLEASE read/abduction scam

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In a message dated 3/29/00 3:30:28 AM Central Standard Time, DevineJo@...

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Subject: Please read important

Subject: FW: be careful--PLEASE READ IN ITS ENTIRETY

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> > > Be careful out there!!!

> > > The notice below was posted on JCPenney's e-mail this

> > > morning to all Female Associates. I wanted to pass

> > > the information on to you.

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> > >

> > > Recently on Inside Edition there was an article about

> > > several new scams to abduct women. In one, a man comes

> > > up to a woman in a Mall or Shopping Center and asks if

> > > she likes pizza. When she says she does, he offers

> > > her $10000 to shoot a commercial for Pizza, but they

> > > need to go outside where the lighting is better. When

> > > the woman goes out of the mall she is abducted and

> > > assaulted.

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> > > Another ploy is a very nicely dressed man asks a woman

> > > if she would be in a Public Service announcement to

> > > discourage drug use. The man explains that they don't

> > > want professional actors or celebrities; they want the

> > > average mother to do this. Once she leaves the mall

> > > she is a victim.

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> > > The third ploy, and the most successful, a very

> > > frantic man comes running in to the mall and asks a

> > > woman to please help him, his baby is not breathing.

> > > She runs out of the mall following him and also

> > > becomes a victim. These have been happening in

> > > well-lit parking areas, in daylight as well as night

> > > time, all over the country. The abductor usually uses

> > > a van to abduct the woman.

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> > > 'Inside Edition' set up a test in a Mall and 10 out of

> > > 15 women went out of the mall on the Pizza and the PSA

> > > scam. And all of them went out of the mall on the baby

> > > scam. Please pass this along to your friends and

> > > family as now that it has been shown on nation-wide TV

> > > there are bound to be copycats of this. The third one,

> > > I think, is the scariest. You might resist pizza or

> > > becoming a commercial celebrity...but who would be

> > > able to resist a frantic father asking for help for

> > > his child? I'm sure that one would get me.

> > >

> > > A woman was shopping at the Tuttle Mall in Columbus.

> > > She came out to her car and saw she had a flat. She

> > > got her jack and spare out of the trunk. A man in a

> > > business suit came up and started to help her. When

> > > the tire had been replaced, he asked for a ride to his

> > > car on the opposite side of the mall. Feeling

> > > uncomfortable about doing this, she stalled for a

> > > while, but he kept pressing her. She finally asked

> > > why he was on this side of the mall if his car was on

> > > the other. He claimed he had been talking to friends.

> > > Still uncomfortable, she told him that she had just

> > > remembered something she had forgotten to pick up at

> > > the mall and she left him and went back inside the

> > > mall. She reported the incident to the mall security

> > > and they went out to her car. The man was nowhere in

> > > sight. Opening her trunk, she discovered a briefcase

> > > the man had set inside her trunk while helping her

> > > with the tire. Inside were rope and a butcher knife.

> > > And, when she took the tire to be fixed, the mechanic

> > > informed her that there was nothing wrong with her

> > > tire, that it was flat because the air had been let

> > > out of it.

> > >

> > > I was going to send this to the ladies only, but guys,

> > > if you love your mothers, wives, sisters, daughters,

> > > etc., you may want to pass it on to them, as well.

> > >

> > > Send this to any woman you know that may need to be

> > > reminded that the world we live in has a lot of

> > > crazies in it....better safe than sorry.

> > >

> > > PLEASE BE SAFE AND NOT SORRY! JUST A WARNING TO ALWAYS

> > > BE ALERT AND USE YOUR HEAD!!!

> > >

> > > Pass this along to every woman you have access to.

> > > Never let your guard down.

> > >

> > > SOMETIMES THAT FEELING IN YOUR GUT IS THE VOICE OF

> > > GOD. TRUST YOUR INSTINCTS!!

> > >

> > > Sincerely,

> > > LeBlanc, PHR

> > > JCPenney Direct Marketing Services

> > > Human Resources

> > >

> > > Sincerely,

> > > , Senior Project Manager

> > > JCPenney Direct Marketing Services

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