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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 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 nation-wide 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 in 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 the brief case were rope and a butcher knife. 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
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