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<div>Hello Tang:</div>
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Please be cautious and aware.
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<div>Dawn<br>
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<div id="divRpF410685" style="direction: ltr; "><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> cp-bulletin-bounces@MIT.EDU [cp-bulletin-bounces@MIT.EDU] on behalf of Cheryl N Vossmer [crimbite@MIT.EDU]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 06, 2012 11:37 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> cp-bulletin@mit.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Cp-bulletin] Informational Bulletin - Scam/con-man<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">INFORMATIONAL Bulletin</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Issued: February 6, 2012</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; background:yellow">PLEASE DISTRIBUTE</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Scam /con-man</span></b></p>
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<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.
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<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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Cambridge:</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
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<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</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</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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><img id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CCE4C3.AAB2C520" height="199" width="141"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><img id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image005.png@01CCE4C3.AAB2C520" height="195" width="158"></span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></i></b></p>
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<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 href="tel:857-258-0076" target="_blank">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 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.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </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”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.metro.us/boston/local/article/647416--alleged-scammer-still-hard-at-work" target="_blank">http://www.metro.us/boston/local/article/647416--alleged-scammer-still-hard-at-work</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Boston University in 2010</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept=673&id=55458" target="_blank">http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept=673&id=55458</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Issued by:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">MIT Police 617-253-1212</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Sgt. Cheryl Vossmer</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Bldg. W89</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">301 Vassar St.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Cambridge, MA 02139</span></p>
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