Re: warning to women (hoax)

[Guest guest]

This is just a hoax! Next time you can go to www.snopes.com to check

out a scary email or warning. Here is the link to the one mentioned:

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/robbery/perfume.htm

Shelby

> A good friend sent this out to me. It may or may not be true...but

who

> knows...chippy

> >

> >

> >   WARNING TO ALL WOMEN

> >

> >   HI,

> >

> >   This very alarming. Please be careful.

> >

> >   This is something that happened to and me on the way back

> from Texas last spring. I didn't think much of it until now. The

reason

> we were a little suspicious is we had been riding in a jeep all day

with

> 100 degrees temps and we stopped at a truck stop for something to

> drink.When I was leaving a young girl followed me out and asked what

> kind of cologne I was wearing. Well, after 7 hours in the car

sweating.

> I don't think you could tell I was or was not wearing any cologne.

We

> just got in the jeep and said no thanks. So this does happen. To

all my

> female friends - It was about 3 weeks ago, I was at the shell

station in

> Auburn getting gas. It was about 11:30pm. I was approached by 2 men

and

> 2 women in a car.

> >

> >   The man that was driving asked me 'What kind of perfume do you

> wear?' I was a bit confused and I asked him.'Why?' He said 'We are

> selling some name brand perfumes at cheap prices.'

> >

> >   I said I had no money. He then reached out of the car and handed

> me paper that was laminated; it had many perfumes on it. I looked

> quickly at it and gave it back. I said, I have no money. He said it

is

> OK, we take check, cash or credit cards. Then the people in the car

> began to laugh. I just got in my car and said no thanks. Then I

received

> this e-mail yesterday and it sent chills up my spine.

> >

> >   Please read this. It is not joke. Here is the e-mail I was

> sent-----

> >

> >

> >

> >   Dear Friends, I know not all of you are women that I am sending

> this to, but am hoping you will share this with your wives,

daughters,

> mother, sisters, etc. Our world seems to be getting crazier by the

day.

> Pipes bombs in mailboxes and sickos in parking lots with perfume. Be

> careful. I was approached yesterday afternoon around 3:30 PM in the

> Walmart parking lot at University Drive in Des Moines by two males

> asking what kind of perfume I was wearing. Then they asked if I'd

like

> to sample some fabulous scent they were willing to sell me at a very

> reasonable rate. I probably would have agreed had I not received an

> email some weeks ago warning of a 'Wanna smell this neat perfume?'

scam.

> The men continued to stand between parked cars, I guess to wait for

> someone else to hit on. I stopped a lady going towards them,

pointing at

> them, and told her about how I was sent an e-mail at work, about

someone

> walking up to you at malls or in parking lots and asking you to

SNIFF

> PERFUME that they are selling at a cheap price. THIS IS

> NOT          PERFUME...IT IS ETHER! When you sniff

> it, you'll pass out. They'll take your wallet, your valuables and

> heavenknows what else. If it were not for this e-mail, I probably

would

> have sniffed the 'perfume' but thanks to the generosity of an

emailing

> friend, I was spared whatever might have happened to me. I wanted

to do

> the same for you.

> >

> >   PLEASE PASS THIS ALONG TO ALL YOUR WOMEN FRIENDS AND PLEASE BE

> ALERT AND BE AWARE. IF YOU ARE A MAN AND RECEIVE THIS, PASS IT ON TO

> YOUR WOMEN FRIENDS.

> >

> >   This last note is from a friend of ours living in Asheville,NC

> that is pretty close to home: Ladies this happened to me yesterday

and I

> didn't smell the perfume either, thanks to this email. This is true.

> Believe me, I know. I was over by Big Lots in the parking lot at

lunch

> time when I was approached. So either day or night, it does not

matter.

> There were 3 guys together when I was approached. I called the

police

> when I got back to my desk. Like the email says above, LET EVERYONE

KNOW

> ABOUT THIS. YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY, COWORKERS, who ever. It helped

me.

> >