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November 29th, 2000, 06:05 PM
The following message was recently posted on JCPenney’s email to all Female Associates. I wanted to pass the information on to all of you:
Recently on Inside Edition, there was an article about several new scams to abduct women.
Ploy 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.
Ploy Two…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.
Ploy Three…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 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. 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.
This message is mainly for the ladies here, but guys, if you love your mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, etc., you may want to pass it on to them, as well. Send it to any woman you know who may need to be reminded that the world we live in has a lot of crazies in it…better safe than sorry.
Everyone keep safe and have a very happy holiday.
Recently on Inside Edition, there was an article about several new scams to abduct women.
Ploy 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.
Ploy Two…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.
Ploy Three…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 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. 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.
This message is mainly for the ladies here, but guys, if you love your mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, etc., you may want to pass it on to them, as well. Send it to any woman you know who may need to be reminded that the world we live in has a lot of crazies in it…better safe than sorry.
Everyone keep safe and have a very happy holiday.