Guest guest Posted November 15, 2000 Report Share Posted November 15, 2000 With all the shopping going on now for the holidays, just thought we all should be reminded of this. I saw the Inside Edition show myself, so ladies be careful and be aware of your surroundings, now and always! Take care and have good, safe holidays. Terry > WARNING! > > 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 $10,000 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, 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. > '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 > 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 RIGHT. TRUST YOUR INSTINCTS!! > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > LeBlanc, PHR > > > JCPenney Direct Marketing Services > > > Human Resources > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > , Senior Project Manager > > > JCPenney Direct Marketing Service > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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