Good Advice

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SHOPPERS WARNING

 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.

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.

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.

The third ploy, the most ! successful, a 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.

'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 nationwide 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 mechani!

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