[Tang-residents] Fwd: Informational Bulletin - Scam/con-man

[Vikramaditya G. Yadav]

*From:*cp-bulletin-bounces at MIT.EDU [mailto:cp-bulletin-bounces at MIT.EDU] 
*On Behalf Of *Cheryl N Vossmer
*Sent:* Monday, February 06, 2012 11:37 AM
*To:* cp-bulletin at mit.edu
*Subject:* [Cp-bulletin] Informational Bulletin - Scam/con-man

INFORMATIONAL Bulletin

Issued: February 6, 2012

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE

*Scam /con-man*

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.

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.

Cambridge:

A report to the Cambridge Police that on Friday, February 3 at 
approximately 8:40 pm a victim was approached by an

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

the suspect $140 and the suspect provided the phone number 857-258-0096 
in order to repay the victim. The

suspect is described as a BM, 40-50 years of age, dark suit, unshaven. 
The victim attempted to contact the suspect to no avail.

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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 857-258-0076 <tel:857-258-0076> 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. 
http://www.007numbers.com/857/258/0076/   it seems that he repeatedly 
use this number."

In March 2011, the Metro published this story about "Alleged scammer 
still hard at work"

http://www.metro.us/boston/local/article/647416--alleged-scammer-still-hard-at-work

Boston University in 2010

http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept=673&id=55458 
<http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept=673&id=55458>

Issued by:

MIT Police                               617-253-1212

Sgt. Cheryl Vossmer

Bldg. W89

301 Vassar St.

Cambridge, MA 02139

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