FW: Off topic Important Notice
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- From: "* C* K* E* <c*@iupui.edu>
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 09:26:45 -0500
- Resent-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 06:26:53 -0800
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The baby thing would get me, too; maybe even having read this...a young
woman in our office lost her three-month old son to SIDS just this very
week.
Carol
Indianapolis
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good [people] to do
nothing.
--- Edmund
Burke
I guess in the case of this scam, sometimes evil triumphs when good women DO
their best to help. Just want you all to be careful. We can help by calling
mall security, and assisting them, if need be.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tyler, Shelley
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 1999 8:55 AM
> To: MEDR-All
> Subject: Important Notice
>
> FYI This was forwarded to me by a friend in New York.
>
>
> > VERY IMPORTANT!!!!!!!
> > Last night on Inside Edition there was an article that is of
> special
> > interest to all women. There are 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
> > $100.00 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 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 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 copy cats 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.
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