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This warning looks strangely similar to the one above, except that the mall involved is now in Columbus instead of Toronto. | | Description | Make sure you read the entire thing. Towards the end is really important!!!!!
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 $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 t! o ! 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
nighttime, 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! o! ne
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.
Insi! de! 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!!
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