Warning for the ladies

[shaneen]

I received this email today and I wanted to share it with you all.

Message from Peel Regional Police - TORONTO



Importance: High



Please read!!!



Warning from Police from Sue Colwell.



This is something received from the MD State Police
and I received it from my employer who works for the
City of Owen Sound. Please read this very carefully
then send it out to all the people online that you
know. Something like this is nothing to take casually.
This is something you do want to pay attention to.

If a person with the screen name of Slavemaster
contacts you, do not reply. Do not talk to this
person, do not answer any of his/her instant messages
or email. Whoever this person may be is a suspect for
murder in the death of 56 women (so far) contacted
through the internet.

Please send this to all the women on your buddy list
and ask them to pass this on as well. This screen name
was seen on Yahoo, AOL, and Excite so far.

This is not a joke. Please send this to men too, just
in case they have wives, daughters, mothers, etc. Send
to every one you know.

Ladies, this is serious. If you receive something from
Slavemaster, contact your local police department.



Sue Colwell

Office Manager

Sexual Assault/Rape Crisis Centre of Peel

Phone: (905) 273-3337

Fax: (905) 273-3336

Email: suec@on.aibn.com

 

[Berlin]

No kidding... 56 ? Pretty serious shit.

 

[papasmerf]

Do we have a description of the suspect????

 

[Remo]

check snopes.com

 

[papasmerf]

I guess the best way to Verify is call the OPP and not the numbers provided

 

[Cardinal Fang]

http://66.165.133.65/horrors/madmen/slavemas.htm

cant believe people are still falling for it though....

Good work Sheik!

You beat me to it. Just because its forwarded on the internet does not make it true. I guess what they say is true...

"The internet is 4 miles wide and 1 inch deep."

 

[zog]

This one is mostly false...

shaneen have you verified that this is not a hoax?

It's always important to look out for internet hoaxes but, at the same time, one does not want to ignore a legitimate warning.

Fortunately, in this case, the warning is no longer valid and is also quite exagerated.

There was a real rapist, who used the "slavemaster" on-line handle to connect with, meet, and rape female victims. In fact, he has been arrested for some of these crimes and also the murder of two of his victims.

The number of victims has become exagerated and the e-mails that circulate don't mention that the criminal is in prison.

The stalking and abuse of on-line victims is a real threat. There are sick people out there who use the internet to indulge their criminal cravings. We would all be well advised to exercise caution in our on-line activities and, from that point of view, the warning is a good reminder.

However, the specifics of this warning are not accurate. Check out this site for more information on this warning.

If you're interested in a more complete list of internet urban myths, there are many web-sites that provide analyses of some of the more common messages you may have seen from time to time. Here is one example of such sites.

Whenever I see a warning or similar message that has been passed along, I always check out the debunking sites before passing it on; I don't like to perpetuate a prank. The problem with all of these fake warnings (I'm sure most of you have seen many others like this) is that if a real warning ever came along, we might fail to take it seriously.

Zog.

 

[Garden of Eden Ladies]

You are the Original Veteran

Sheik You are the Original Veteran! I don't know how you do it. Its like your everywhere.

I only wonder how much time you spend online. I see your posts everywhere. Toronto should be proud to have such a loyal hobbyist.

I also wonder who have the most posts on terb?

Nicole

 

[CyberGoth]

chuckles.

Rule#23: information is only as valuable as its level of authentication.

 

[notenufmuff]

My oh my but whoever sent this surely had Shaneen fooled.

 

[anotherhappy]

Just another source confirming the hoax...

http://www.f-secure.com/hoaxes/slavemas.shtml

 

[asian sensation]

there is no physical description because canada has a law protecting racial profiling. he maybe black,white,asian.native,south asian the list goes on.

 

[shaneen]

What a sick joke to play!!!!

Unbelievable! That is all I have to say. I trusted the person who forwrded it too me and I never thought that he would do something this stupid. LMAO well that is good to know.
Shaneen

 

[shaneen]

I would not have taken it so seriously if it was from someone I did not know. This was from a very trusted friend, so I thought ha ha ha very funny friend. I think that him finding humour in this is just plain immature.
Thanks
and sorry for the false warning

 

[rayven]

Shaneen - is it possible that your "friend" also thought it was a legitimate warning?? - It could be that he didn't realize that it was a hoax...just a thought.

Rayven

 

[shaneen]

rayven...

He is on the computer as much as sheik and the others I think he would have been able to tell the same as they did but I have not asked him yet. I sure will though but thanks

 

[CyberGoth]

and use decent anti virus tools, AVG anti virus is pretty damned good, symantec anti virus exists too.

using something other than outlook would help.