WARNING FROM POLICE
THIS APPLIES TO BOTH WOMEN AND MEN
BEWARE OF PAPER ON THE BACK WINDOW OF YOUR VEHICLE--
NEW WAY TO DO CARJACKINGS (NOT A JOKE)'

Heads up everyone! Please, keep this circulating.. You walk
across the car park, unlock your car and get inside. You
start the engine put it into Reverse.

When you look into the rearview mirror to back out of your
space, you notice a piece of paper stuck to the middle
of the rear window. So, you stop and jump out of your car to remove that paper (or whatever it is) that is obstructing your view.
When you reach the back of your car, that is when the carjackers appear out of nowhere, jump into your car and take off. They practically run you over as they speed off in your car.

And guess what, ladies? I bet your purse is still in the car.
So now the carjacker has your car, your home address, your
money, and your keys. Your home and your whole identity are
now compromised!


BEWARE OF THIS NEW SCHEME THAT IS NOW BEING USED.

If you see a piece of paper stuck to your back window, lock your doors and just drive away.
Remove the paper later. And be thankful that you
read this e-mail. I hope you will forward this to friends and
family, especially to women.
A purse contains all kinds of personal information and identification documents, and you certainly do NOT want this to fall into the wrong hands.

This has been around for years..................

http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/crime/a/carjacking.htm

Unfortunately this is one of many good samaritan "pass to everyone you know as it may help someone" messages - I'm glad that most aren't malicious as it's a perfect way to spread malware or a virus to millions of people.

Steve

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Originally posted by gottabedone
Unfortunately this is one of many good samaritan "pass to everyone you know as it may help someone" messages - I'm glad that most aren't malicious as it's a perfect way to spread malware or a virus to millions of people.

Steve

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wasnt there a similar scam going in winter time where they would jump in while you were scraping the ice off your windows?

Easily solved. Just reverse into all parking spaces, then you can simply drive out forwards.....

Phil

Car jacking normally works because the victim panicks, in alot of cases its escapable if they keep their head and just drive.

This is obviously fake because if your going to steal a car from a carpark you'd either break in and hot wire or you could just jump out and stove your victims head in as they got their keys out, any criminal putting paper on the back in he hope they get out with the car running (who is also willing to cause injury by running over) is an idiot. also, many people would notice before they got in or would take the keys with them.

The real one to watch is people stealling cars that are running to warm them up outside of houses and from people watching you arrive home with shopping and taking your keys from you home whilst you unpack.

spoil sport.

I keep a piece of paper permanently stuck to my rear window, confuses the hell out of the carjackers!!!

Unless its a new hoax and your one of the first to get scammed.
Urban legends is the biz when it comes to hoax verifying.

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Originally posted by Hellfire
Easily solved. Just reverse into all parking spaces, then you can simply drive out forwards.....

Phil

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