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Be safe ladies (LONG, but please read)
This was sent to my email today at work. It is from someone that works in my school district. It is pretty surreal that this can happen. I know it is long, but you will be glad you read it. It just happened yesterday.
I did delete a small part because it mentions her family members by name and some other personal information.
Hello my friends,
Several people who were with me yesterday said that I should share this with as many people as possible so they are aware of this situation. I fell for a scheme that is out around our attendance area. I want you to know the details so that you can stay safe.
First, this in NOT one of those emails you pass along and never know if the situation is ever really true. This happened to me yesterday during the work day as I drove between schools and picked up lunch on Georgesville Road. I was robbed while trying to do a good deed for a lady and her baby in the pouring rain. This scheme was well thought out and I fell right into it.
What happened:
I pulled through the Arby's drive-through at Georgesville Square and headed down the access road that runs parallel to Georgesville Rd, through several stop signs. At the 3rd one, a red Corvette stopped suddenly in front of me and I saw the woman in the car get hit by the driver. He then
jerked the car out in the intersection and stopped again, but this time the door came open and a baby (maybe 2 years old) was dangling out of it almost on the ground when the car began to move again. I stopped in astonishment thinking this baby was being thrown out of the car when the woman stumbled out crying and grabbing the baby in her arms and came running out of the intersection. I told her to get in my car and that I would call the police and take her to safety. She talked me out of that and said the the "crazy Mexican" she was with doesn't like to hear the little boy cry and he just goes nuts if he hears it. She said she wanted to go to her friend's house and was driving to Broad Street too far?
I took her there and she suddenly says her friend might not be home so she calls her. As it turned out, the friend was at Home Depot and she asked if I would just drop her off there. There was a bright metallic blue SUV waiting for her. (Maybe a Bronco or a Blazer?) I had her write down all of her info, the friend's info, he man's name, etc. because I was still going to call the police and make a report of what I saw.
I did so, and when the police called me back and said none of the numbers or addresses are real, I thought she did this because she was protecting the man. As it turned out, she robbed me and now has my i.d., driver's license, credit cards, everything.
I'm telling you this because there are details I should have picked up on if I was thinking with an alert mind. However, I had been at the hospital with Bob the night before all night to be with the family of his student who was hit by a car. I didn't get to bed until about 4:00 in the morning, so by noon yesterday I was exhausted and didn't think about what I was doing.
Here were clues:
-The lady seemed to walk straight to my car as soon as she got out of the car, even though I was stopping anyway (I was her target)
-Within about 2 minutes of being in my car she told me how nice it was and that her Lexus doesn't have that nice of a dashboard. Now, I drive a 2 year old Honda Accord first of all- not THAT nice, and if she were that concerned about what just happened, why would she notice what type of car I was driving?
-She told me she didn't know the address of the friend's house and then said to drop her off at the Home Depot, where the friend happened to be?
Duhhh...
-The SUV waiting for her was out at the farthest end of Home Depot (on Broad) and was parked behind a couple of big equipment pieces out there- far away from the cameras.
- finally, I was stupid enough to pull away and then come back to them and ran my business card over to her so that if the police needed a witness, she could give them my information. When I approached the SUV there was a man driving, the friend, another man in the back and 2 other kids. None
of it made sense the more I think about the details, but I was too tired to think about what was going on right in front of me. How foolish.
So, DON'T carry unnecessary cards, don't put your social security card in your wallet, you've heard it all, but now with my identity floating around out there, please take me seriously and take all of this stuff out of your wallet.
The time that she had to rob me? She insisted in my driving off with her and the little boy in the front seat, but I told her I wouldn't drive that way. I got out, put him in the back seat with a seatbelt and then went around to get back in the car. She had all the time in the world to go through my things as I was in the pouring rain making sure her son was safe. She actually could have stolen my car or do worse to me. PLEASE THINK before you do anything like this for ANYONE, even a woman with a crying baby in the rain- how sad our times have come to this. Please warn your women friends of this scam and how it worked. It all happened so fast that I got no license plate numbers or anything. The police have the report, but can't really do anything about it.
I did delete a small part because it mentions her family members by name and some other personal information.
Hello my friends,
Several people who were with me yesterday said that I should share this with as many people as possible so they are aware of this situation. I fell for a scheme that is out around our attendance area. I want you to know the details so that you can stay safe.
First, this in NOT one of those emails you pass along and never know if the situation is ever really true. This happened to me yesterday during the work day as I drove between schools and picked up lunch on Georgesville Road. I was robbed while trying to do a good deed for a lady and her baby in the pouring rain. This scheme was well thought out and I fell right into it.
What happened:
I pulled through the Arby's drive-through at Georgesville Square and headed down the access road that runs parallel to Georgesville Rd, through several stop signs. At the 3rd one, a red Corvette stopped suddenly in front of me and I saw the woman in the car get hit by the driver. He then
jerked the car out in the intersection and stopped again, but this time the door came open and a baby (maybe 2 years old) was dangling out of it almost on the ground when the car began to move again. I stopped in astonishment thinking this baby was being thrown out of the car when the woman stumbled out crying and grabbing the baby in her arms and came running out of the intersection. I told her to get in my car and that I would call the police and take her to safety. She talked me out of that and said the the "crazy Mexican" she was with doesn't like to hear the little boy cry and he just goes nuts if he hears it. She said she wanted to go to her friend's house and was driving to Broad Street too far?
I took her there and she suddenly says her friend might not be home so she calls her. As it turned out, the friend was at Home Depot and she asked if I would just drop her off there. There was a bright metallic blue SUV waiting for her. (Maybe a Bronco or a Blazer?) I had her write down all of her info, the friend's info, he man's name, etc. because I was still going to call the police and make a report of what I saw.
I did so, and when the police called me back and said none of the numbers or addresses are real, I thought she did this because she was protecting the man. As it turned out, she robbed me and now has my i.d., driver's license, credit cards, everything.
I'm telling you this because there are details I should have picked up on if I was thinking with an alert mind. However, I had been at the hospital with Bob the night before all night to be with the family of his student who was hit by a car. I didn't get to bed until about 4:00 in the morning, so by noon yesterday I was exhausted and didn't think about what I was doing.
Here were clues:
-The lady seemed to walk straight to my car as soon as she got out of the car, even though I was stopping anyway (I was her target)
-Within about 2 minutes of being in my car she told me how nice it was and that her Lexus doesn't have that nice of a dashboard. Now, I drive a 2 year old Honda Accord first of all- not THAT nice, and if she were that concerned about what just happened, why would she notice what type of car I was driving?
-She told me she didn't know the address of the friend's house and then said to drop her off at the Home Depot, where the friend happened to be?
Duhhh...
-The SUV waiting for her was out at the farthest end of Home Depot (on Broad) and was parked behind a couple of big equipment pieces out there- far away from the cameras.
- finally, I was stupid enough to pull away and then come back to them and ran my business card over to her so that if the police needed a witness, she could give them my information. When I approached the SUV there was a man driving, the friend, another man in the back and 2 other kids. None
of it made sense the more I think about the details, but I was too tired to think about what was going on right in front of me. How foolish.
So, DON'T carry unnecessary cards, don't put your social security card in your wallet, you've heard it all, but now with my identity floating around out there, please take me seriously and take all of this stuff out of your wallet.
The time that she had to rob me? She insisted in my driving off with her and the little boy in the front seat, but I told her I wouldn't drive that way. I got out, put him in the back seat with a seatbelt and then went around to get back in the car. She had all the time in the world to go through my things as I was in the pouring rain making sure her son was safe. She actually could have stolen my car or do worse to me. PLEASE THINK before you do anything like this for ANYONE, even a woman with a crying baby in the rain- how sad our times have come to this. Please warn your women friends of this scam and how it worked. It all happened so fast that I got no license plate numbers or anything. The police have the report, but can't really do anything about it.
Re: Be safe ladies (LONG, but please read)
It's unbelievable what people will do instead of making a valid living.
You can't trust anyone anymore.
Hey,
I got that same email. I didn't know that you worked in South-Western. How sad! It is a bummer that you can not help others without feeling threatened. I was so shocked when I read this email. I can't even believe that someone would really do that.
OHHH wow!!!
i live right by georgesville and am there often WOW
scary it hits so close to home...you have to be careful these days last night my friend and I were sitting at her big picture window and a white suv drove by 3 times and eventually came up and knocked on the door he was dressed as a pizza guy we didnt order pizza he didnt have on a pizza companies jacket hat or even a sign on his car after he knocked and we didnt answer he began to scratch at the door..You can never be to careful