New Warning: JC Penney
Verbatim from email forward
Ladies be careful as we enter the holiday season and are out shopping at
all hours of the day!!!!
Make sure you read the entire thing. Towards the end is really
important!!!!! I know I didn't get everybody but if you see someone I didn't
get please forward to them.
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 $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 awhile, 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
