Subject: Fw: [OHMONROE-L] Fw: Listen Up! & BE AWARE >I certainly agree....if we all start sending what we personally feel is >important for others to know, then these lists will degenerate into nothing remotely usable for those of us who are interested in genealogy, which is,after all, the SOLE purpose for the lists. > > >rom: Craig S. Wetzel <wetart@mtn-state.com> >To: OHMONROE-L@rootsweb.com <OHMONROE-L@rootsweb.com> >Date: Sunday, March 21, 1999 4:40 PM >Subject: RE: [OHMONROE-L] Fw: Listen Up! & BE AWARE > > >> This list is for genealogy. Unless one of your Monroe County ancestors >>were abducted 100 years ago I don't care to read about it. Perhaps there >is >>a pizza-danger or mall-pitfall list you can join if you fancy yourself an >>e-mail angel. Give US a break unless you hear of a cemetery scam. >> Craig >> >><< -----Original Message----- >><< From: J. L. [mailto:fmlyfndr@email.msn.com] >><< Sent: Sunday, March 21, 1999 2:53 PM >><< To: OHMONROE-L@rootsweb.com >><< Subject: [OHMONROE-L] Fw: Listen Up! & BE AWARE >><< >><< >><< Hello All, >><< This was sent to me by my sister-in-law. I believe something like this >><< needs to be passed on and all be made aware. >><< >><< Sincerely, J.L. >><< >><< http://members.tripod.com/~FutureFoods/FutureFoods.html >><< >><< Subject: Listen Up! & BE AWARE >><< >><< >><< Dear Loved Ones of Mine, >><< >><< >><< 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. >><< >><< I was going to pass this on to the ladies only, but guys, if you love >><< your mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, etc., you should pass it on >to >><< them. >><< >><< Love, Patti >><< >><< >><< >><< >