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From: "Margie Skinner" <>
Subject: [RC] Fw: Headers Safety
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 22:28:29 -0600


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Subject: Fw: Headers Safety


> Here is another something I feel that is worth passing on and worth the
> time it will take to read and heed. I have been trying to learn how to
> do what they are talking about doing at the end of this and will be
> trying to do it from now on. I have always tried to remember to delete
> the names and addresses on anything I have gotten before I forward it and
> not send all that on, just to not have them passing around and make it
> easier to read too, and hope we can all try to remember to do it from
> now on.
> --------------------------------------------------
> The Crumly's
>
>
> --------- Forwarded message ----------
> This was sent to me by a friend. It could happen. WARNING!!!!
>
> I received this e-mail from a friend and parts of it rang true for me. I
> have been contacted by a guy because we had the same server. He wanted
> to chat, wanted to know what town I lived in, kinda creepy.
>
> Please read it and perhaps you will see the merit in what she says too.
>
> I will be using the process described at the end of the email for the
> safety of everyone. That's why you should only see your name at the top
> of this list.
>
> Here's an example of why I "clean" all my forwards of any old e-mail
> addresses I always either copy and paste or press forward and then
> highlight and delete all headers with other e-mail names and addresses,
> just leaving the message. I would like all previous
> recipients addresses removed and do not send mine to other people in
> forwards to others, OK? A little care can go a long way. Plus heck, even
> without potential dangers, who wants to scroll down through dozens of
> names even to read a good joke?!!
>
> PLEASE READ SERIOUS TRUE STORY BELOW
>
> A Broward woman writes:
> Late one evening, while online, I received an IM from a gentleman who
> said he knew me through mutual pals online. We chatted for an hour or so
> before deciding to keep in touch, as we had so many things in common. I
> eventually, after a week or so of knowing him, trusted him with my
> name(first name) and phone number; after all, he knew my friends and I
> felt he must have been OK if they all liked and knew him. He knew a lot
> about them, he knew a lot about me and he knew a lot about a lot! He
> seemed like such a nice person, a pleasant person, and someone whom I
> felt very comfortable sharing my time online (and on the phone) with.
>
> Most of the friends I had made on AOL knew me and I knew them, so I felt
> quite safe with anyone whom they associated with. We all talked on a
> regular basis, though we seldom went into chat rooms. One night, a
> friend from our group of friends invited me to a chat room where several
> of the friends had gathered and were chatting (it was an open chat in
> the members category, romance) and we were all chatting when this
> gentleman popped into the chat room. He popped in and then left quickly.
> He then blocked his buddy list and sent me an IM. I instantly became
> curious as to why he was acting so suspicious.
> Then,for the first time since I met and started chatting with him, I
> mentioned him to one of the friends who were in the chat room. One whom
> this gentleman claimed association with. She was in total awe, she did
> not know who he was! However, she had experienced the same thing as I
> had. Only difference was, the guy who sent her an IM claimed to have
> known her from a former friend online. Things were beginning to look
> really suspicious. The more she and I chatted, the more suspicious it
> became.
>
> It also became apparent that this guy knew none of us. Suddenly, he
> disappeared off-line for a few days ... then one day he pops back in and
> sends me an IM saying that we need to talk. He called me at my home and
> I was very upset, so I asked him how he really found me and why he had
> felt the need to lie in the first place. This is where you all need to
> pay attention: He told me that he spotted my screen name on a forward
> that one of my
> friends sent to someone else. My screen name is what attracted him. He
> then used the screen name of others on the list of forwards to acquaint
> himself with me and various others from our clique of friends. He also
> used the member directory to look up info about others on the list of
> forwards, so not to look suspicious. He said he felt it was the
> only way he would have the chance to get to know me, and the main
> attraction to me was "My Screen name" because he thought it was "sexy!"
>
> I was upset, needless to say, as I had trusted this man with my personal
> info ... such as phone number and name. He also knew where I lived
> (thanks to the phone bill) and I was now his prey! A few days after
> having last talked to this person and thinking that was the last of him,
> I received a phone call at 4:00 am, it was this man telling me he was in
> town to see a friend who lived 20 minutes from my house, and wanted to
> know if I would like to meet him for coffee or breakfast. When I told him
> it was not such a good idea, he became irate and hung up on me. I
> immediately called him back (caller ID) and explained to him that my
> husband was back home (trying to scare him) and to please not be so mad
> (in fear of him and what he might do). His whole demeanor changed and a
> different person was on the other end of that phone..not the man whom I
> had talked to online so many times (and seemed so sweet and caring). He
> was very uneasy and angry
> towards me. Telling him that my husband had returned and we were
> reconciling was a lie, and I told him this to make him think I was not
> alone! Imagine the feeling I felt in the pit of my stomach when he came
> back with the following response:
> "You're a lying bitch, your husband is not there with you...you are
> alone!"
> I hung up on him and immediately called the Broward County Sheriffs
> office and told them what had happened. They sent an officer over to
> take a report and said that was really all they could do for me at that
> time. So,I packed a few belongings into my car, while the deputies
> waited and drove to my sister's home for the night. I was in shock!
> Fifteen or twenty minutes after I arrived at her home, I received a phone
> call from this man again! He knew I called the Sheriff and reported
> him,he knew where I was and he knew my sister and her husband's names!
>
> People, let me tell you something, this man had been stalking me for
> weeks and I had no idea!! I walked, ate, slept and breathed in constant
> fear until he was finally arrested for stalking! Not for stalking me!
> Nope! For stalking another lady who lived in Kendall, FL. This is what
> I was informed of when I was contacted by Kendall Florida detectives
> (who was contacted by Broward County) when it was discovered he was
> facing other various charges. Meanwhile, I went on and filed charges
> against him in Broward County.
> I wanted to share this with you all. And yes, it is all true.
>
> Friends, when you forward things and you leave your friends names out in
> plain view like that, you are putting THEM and YOURSELF in what could be
> grave danger. I hope I have gotten this message across; as I have not
> even begun to mention his assault (rape, using deadly force) charges the
> detectives from Broward County and Kendall, FL uncovered on him while
> investigating his prior history! Yes, he had been charged with raping a
> Tifton, GA lady whom he had met online also, and using the same technique
> he used on my friend, and me he stalked her for weeks before finally
> getting up the nerve to break in to her home (as she slept) and rape and
> beat her! He was out on bond and his trial was pending all the while
> when he was online and still trying to do the same thing to more women!
> People, please!!! Be safe, be careful and BCC!!!! This is for real.
>
> PLEASE READ & UNDERSTAND THIS
> Protect Your Family. Friends and Buddies
>
> Use BCC - Blind Carbon Copy, OR COPY, PASTE to a new email form. Make
> the "To" to yourself, then list the people you want to e-mail it to in
> the "BCC" line. (NOT the "CC" line). No matter how many people are
> listed under the "BCC", each one will only see their name. Then send.
>
> ( In case you are in AOL and don't know how to BCC, when you put your
> "send to" names in the top of your e-mail, put a set of parenthesis
> around the names. This will send your e-mail to your friends, but when
> they get them, only their own name is on the e-mail. All your other
> friends' names will not be on it, no matter how many people you sent the
> mail to. Example: (Suzy Q, Tom Jones, Harry James, Peter Piper) When Suzy
> Q gets her copy her name is the only name on it with BCC before her name.
> The others are the same way. Pass this on, but copy the body of the
> e-mail into another e-mail, so my screen name does not appear on it, and
> then BCC to your friends.) Protect your screen name, and that of your
> friends.
>
>
>
>

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