I just had to put this out!!!! Please take it to heart and be careful this
holiday season! THIS IS NOT A JOKE!
Heather
Make sure you read the entire thing. Towards the end is really
important!!!!!
The notice below was posted on JCPenney's e-mail this week to all Female
Associates.
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 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,
Kelly LeBlanc, PHR
JCPenney Direct Marketing Services
Human Resources
Sincerely,
Susan Harris, Senior Project Manager
JCPenney Direct Marketing Services
Thanksgiving...an attitude of gratitude.
Heather
grantmh(a)hotmail.com
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