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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cp-bulletin-bounces@MIT.EDU">cp-bulletin-bounces@MIT.EDU</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:cp-bulletin-bounces@MIT.EDU">mailto:cp-bulletin-bounces@MIT.EDU</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Cheryl N Vossmer<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 06, 2012 11:37 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cp-bulletin@mit.edu">cp-bulletin@mit.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Cp-bulletin] Informational Bulletin -
Scam/con-man<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">INFORMATIONAL Bulletin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">Issued: February 6, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">PLEASE
DISTRIBUTE</span><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">Scam /con-man<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">The MIT Police would like to
advise the community about a scam/con-man. This male has a
lengthy history with many police department’s in Boston,
Cambridge, and Brookline areas. He has scammed many people and
we’d like to alert you of this his scam before you too, become
a victim of his crime.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">You can see from the messages
below his “sob story” and if you give him the money, you will
never see it again! Please, do call the police if you are
approached by him. If off campus dial 911, if you are on the
MIT campus call 617-253-1212.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">Cambridge:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">A report to the Cambridge
Police that on Friday, February 3 at approximately 8:40 pm a
victim was approached by an
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">unknown black male who stated
to the victim that he had run out of gas, his car needed
repairs, and needed money to visit his sick child in the
hospital. The victim gave<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">the suspect $140 and the
suspect provided the phone number 857-258-0096 in order to
repay the victim. The<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">suspect is described as a BM,
40-50 years of age, dark suit, unshaven. The victim attempted
to contact the suspect to no avail.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><img
id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:part1.08070900.01060808@mit.edu"
height="199" width="141"><b><i><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif""><img id="Picture_x0020_2"
src="cid:part2.01070904.06020106@mit.edu" height="195"
width="158"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><i><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">On January 2, around midnight,
an MIT graduate student wrote that he was approached by “a
well-dressed black man in his late 50s/early 60s. 5 feet 5,
for money to fix a flat tire he said that it is urgent because
he needed to get his sick kid to hospital. He asked me to call
his number
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="tel:857-258-0076">857-258-0076</a>
and let you see caller ID of your phone to give you assurance
that he's not scamming. I gave him $80. A few days later I
tried calling back, the phone number was out of service. “ The
victim goes on to state the location was “Outside Whitehead
Institute, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA. I googled the
internet for that phone number and I found similar reports.
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.007numbers.com/857/258/0076/"
target="_blank">http://www.007numbers.com/857/258/0076/</a>
it seems that he repeatedly use this number.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">In March 2011, the Metro
published this story about “Alleged scammer still hard at
work”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif""><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.metro.us/boston/local/article/647416--alleged-scammer-still-hard-at-work">http://www.metro.us/boston/local/article/647416--alleged-scammer-still-hard-at-work</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">Boston University in 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif""><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept=673&id=55458">http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept=673&id=55458</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">Issued by:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">MIT
Police 617-253-1212<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">Sgt. Cheryl Vossmer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">Bldg. W89<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">301 Vassar St.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">Cambridge, MA 02139<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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