View from the cop: Crime & punishment
View from the Cop is moving to a new site on Wordpress. Blogger Steve Rose of the Sandy Springs Police Department gives his take on crime, offers safety tips and give his weekly picks from the police blotter. Follow Steve Rose to the new blog site.
AJC.com > Metro > View from the cop > Archives > 2008 > April > 14 > Entry
Crime & punishment
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Some reports filed with Sandy Springs Police over the past week.
Forgery and ID theft
A woman reported that her granddaughter applied for two student loans and listed her as the co-signer without her permission.
A woman reported that someone accessed her credit card number and made unauthorized transactions on it. She believes her monitor of her halfway-house area used the cards to pay for her DUI class.
A man tried to cash a check for over $800 at the Western Union on Roswell Road. The employee checked the number and saw the account was closed and then when he called the name on the check, the woman on the other end said the check had been stolen. (She didn’t report it until the officer told her to.) If you have checks, or anything else for that matter, that are negotiable and are stolen, report it as soon as you can.
The victim applied for a job with a local company. During the pre-employment check, the company representative told her that she had several delinquent accounts. The account fraud totaled over $12,000.
A woman reported that she received almost $400 of unauthorized charges on her credit card. She said this happened after she gave her son her credit card for his online gambling………I said: this happened after she gave her son her credit card for his online gambling…..(In police work, we call this a clue.)
THIS WEEK’S SCAM
(Grammatical errors have been left untouched for your enjoyment)
Retreival Of My Father’s Wealth.
Dear Belove one
Based on your profile, l am happy to request for your assistance because I beleive that you are not going to betrayed the trust which I am going to lay on you Dear Beloved i pray all is well with you and Other members of your family.
My name is Rose, 20 years old and the only daughter of my late parents Mr.and Mrs Mguma , My father was a highly reputable busnness magnet-(a cocoa merchant) who operated in the capital of Ivory coast during his days. It is sad to say that he passed away mysteriously in France during one of his business trips abroad on 12th.November 2005.Though his sudden death was linked or rather suspected to have been masterminded by an uncle of his who travelled with him at that time, but God knows the truth!
My mother died when I was just 6 years old (1994), and since then my father took me so special. Before the death of my Father on November 12th 2005 he called the secretary who accompanied him to the hospital and told her that he has the sum of (USD$17.5 000 000) Seventeen Milion five hundred thousand dollars left in a metalic trunk trunk box, wich he deposited in a Security Company here in abidjan, that he registered it as family valuable items for security reasons, he told the secretary that I should contact the Company for them to know me as his next of kin wich I have did as he instructed,
He also told the secretary that I should not let any of his relations to know about this because he was kiled by them and if they know about it, that they will do nothing but to kill me in other to take hold of every thing, He told her that I should seek for a foriegn partner abroad who will help me retreived the trunk box and also travel with him or her in other to continue my Live and Education and also to start a Bussines relationship with the person whom can take cear of me in the fucture,
My dear, this is why I have come incontact with you in order to help me retreive that trunk box from the Security Companys custody and send it direct to your country and also to make an arrangement for me on how I will come over to your country in other to continue my Live and Education and also to go into bussines relationship with you hence I am still a child and I dont know any thing about bussines,
I am just 20 years old and a university undergraduate and really don’t know what to do. this is because I have suffered a lot of set backs as a result of incessant political crisis here in Ivory coast. The death of my father actually brought sorrow to my life, My dear, I am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance in this regards and your suggestions and ideas will be highly regarded. Now permit me to ask these few questions:
- Can I completely trust you?
2.Can you accept me as your own blood Sister (Or Doughter)?
- What percentage of the total amount in question will be good for you?
Consider this and get back to me as soon as possible with your full assurance that you will not disapoint me in this issue so that i can give you the contact of the Security Company where my late Father deposited that trunk box for you to contact them on how the trunk box will be retreived from their custody and deliver to your country,
Thank you soo much for your understanding and may almighty God bless you and your Family to the Glory of God Almighty, My sincere regards, Miss Rose Mguma. (“I got your Ma-gu-mas right here pal!!)
Okay—Enough
.JPG)
-1.JPG)
Services »
Comments
By Goddess
April 14, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this
LOL! I love that they ask you if they can trust YOU….right before they try to scam you. My favorite email scam is the one where they tell you they’re dying and they’re going to leave all their money to you. Warms my heart every time I read it that they would bypass every one of their relatives and leave the $ to me, a total stranger.
By 2U4U
April 14, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this
All the crimes listed in today’s piece by officer steve rose sound like the work of the barbie bandits to me.
Where’s the supervision?
By ElBubba
April 14, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this
Lt. Steve,
That’s a pretty slick way of avoiding the big question in your last blog, just start a new one.
El Bubba
By Sue Jenkins
April 14, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this
FUNNY, FUNNY! I really miss getting the Nigerian offers of assistance of ‘free’ money to me, a stranger. After I told them what I thought of their scams, they stopped begging me for help. They provided daily laughs. Truly amazing that there are people in Africa who actually believe and hope that most Americans are really that stupid!
By Sue Jenkins
April 14, 2008 2:12 PM | Link to this
FUNNY, FUNNY! I really miss getting the Nigerian offers of assistance of ‘free’ money to me, a stranger. After I told them what I thought of their scams, they stopped begging me for help. They provided daily laughs. Truly amazing that there are people in Africa who actually believe and hope that most Americans are really that stupid!
By Sue Jenkins
April 14, 2008 2:12 PM | Link to this
FUNNY, FUNNY! I really miss getting the Nigerian offers of assistance of ‘free’ money to me, a stranger. After I told them what I thought of their scams, they stopped begging me for help. They provided daily laughs. Truly amazing that there are people in Africa who actually believe and hope that most Americans are really that stupid!
By 2U4U
April 14, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this
Oh! OH! I love this email scam: “Send me your money and I give you more money back, or I killou and lou will lie.” Sound familiar?
or this one: “You won money in big contest, so we give you much money but first you send us money first, or I killou and lou will lie”. Remember that one? I fell for that one twice.
Man, you gotta B so carefull!
By Stone
April 14, 2008 5:38 PM | Link to this
Sue Jenkins is a little slow!
By Stone
April 14, 2008 5:40 PM | Link to this
Sue Jenkins is a little slow!
By Stone
April 14, 2008 5:40 PM | Link to this
Sue Jenkins is a little slow!
By Stone
April 14, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this
Sorry about that Sue Jenkins, that was a little mean, a little mean, a little mean. Is there a friggin’ echo in here?
By Cindy
April 14, 2008 8:03 PM | Link to this
Now Stone I was gonna pick at her too…but I refrained. Bad, Bad, Bad. Behave.
By Love my Brazilian wife
April 14, 2008 8:15 PM | Link to this
This was happening constantly to me, so I addressed the issue at hand. I responded,and at the end of the e-mail,I used my official signature when I was a treasury officer. They stopped immediately. They obviously think that we’re all stupid, fat americans horny for the old dollar.
By Stone
April 14, 2008 9:07 PM | Link to this
Cindy is right, I am a bad boy and I feel realy bad about my actions. I need a good spankin’.
By Cindy
April 14, 2008 9:17 PM | Link to this
Stone, Ummm…I don’t even know what to say… :)
By Fred
April 14, 2008 10:32 PM | Link to this
Yeah it was mean Stone. It was mean Stone. It was mean Stone.
But it was funny. As far as the stupid people falling for those scams? my sister is dumb enough. She bought the travel agency travel plan, the vacation club, and god know what else. I’m hoping she was secretly adopted so that there isn’t a chance of that stupidity gene being in my daughter……..
By Cindy
April 15, 2008 8:06 AM | Link to this
Fred, with the proper training and verbally bashing of such gimmicks, your daughter should be just fine. My moma…I certainly won’t call her dumb (she’s far from dumb)…will also entertain the things we normally avoid like the plague. I put her name/number on the do not call list…she asked me to put it back on. She said she likes to get the calls to see what’s available for her to purchase…I was like “what?!?” She knows better though, she just does it anyway…early in life my moma and daddy both taught me to read the fine print, if it sounds too good…it is, marketing gimmicks…the whole nine yards…so they trained me up right. You do that for your daughter…when the mail comes in and has the offers, show her the presentation of it, and the ploy…then she’ll be fine.
Stone…did you ever get your whooping you were soliciting?
By truth hurts
April 15, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this
Hi. I’m a linguist, which for those who are culturally deprived and dont know anything except how to click on pop-up goatporn ads B4 they disappear, is the history of syntactical evolution.
the rocket scientist who posts as stone also posts as three other ID’s on this blog and he’s posting to himself, like a retard would who lives in his grandmother’s basement and wears her soiled and wet underwear……ew…..(his syntactical fingerprint is proof beyond a shadow of moron)
But not criticizing, this is merely a point of parliamentary procedure.
blogon, my fine friends.
By Cindy
April 15, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this
um. oh. ok. dang.
By sue jenkins
April 15, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this
Hey Stone, Find something important to complain about. I was also surprised to see my comment posted 3 times. I am used to typing fast so must have hit the send key 3 times. That’s all, just a typo.
By ElBubba
April 15, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this
Truth Hurts,
You’re a linguist? But not a psychiatrist. If Stone has a Multiple Personality dissorder perhaps you could help the different personalities develop their own distinct syntactic styles, that would help them develop further.
I agree with everything Stone says, before he even says it.
El Bubba
By Julie
April 15, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this
Hey! No fair! That chick said that was MY money!
By Julie
April 15, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this
Hey! No fair! That chick said that was MY money!
By reader
April 15, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this
A linguist is not the history of syntactical evolution, but one who studies linguistics, i.e., the nature & structure of human speech; or one who speaks other languages fluently, gibberish excluded. When did a lot become one word?
By ElBubba
April 15, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this
reader,
I’m not a linguist but I have studied linguistics.
“Alot” is not a word, however “a lot” can be part of a sentance.
Truth Hurts seems to have multiple problems with sentance structure, capitalization, syntax, abreviation and punctuation. However, nowhere in her post did I see “alot”.
El Bubba
By Fred
April 15, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this
I learned early on it making posts on the internet that if you criticize someones spelling or grammar in a post, there is a 99.9 percent chance that you yourself made a typo doing so.
Doesn’t stop me though lol.
I think we should all write in El Bubba for President when we vote.
By Bubba Jr.
April 15, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this
I hope Sue doesnt pay bills online. Try hitting that enter key three times when paying online
By Bubba Jr.
April 15, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this
I hope Sue doesnt pay bills online. Try hitting that enter key three times when paying online
By Bubba Jr.
April 15, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this
I hope Sue doesnt pay bills online. Try hitting that enter key three times when paying online
By Cassie
April 15, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this
I see we’ve been hijacked by the thought AND grammar police this morning….
By reader
April 15, 2008 3:37 PM | Link to this
El Bubba! What makes you say truth hurts is a “her”?
I don’t know where I read “alot”. I was moving rather fast. I think truth hurts reminded me of another’s post somewhere; one who uses the “word” alot, a lot.
By ElBubba
April 15, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this
What makes “truth hurts” think “Stone” is a man?
By Stone
April 15, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this
Y’all crack me up. Sue, I said I was sorry already and I wasn’t complaining now was I? “Truth Hurts”, LOL, didn’t know I was posting to myself. Yes you did. No I didn’t. Wow maybe you’re right. Don’t listen to him you’re wrong. I think I’m cracking up. No your OK, I’m OK. Would love to know who else I’m posting under. Am I Sue Jenkins, Sue Jenkins, Sue Jenkins?
By reader
April 15, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this
EB: Answering the question with a question is not answering the question.
By ElBubba
April 15, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this
Quiero presentar mi Vice Presidencial corriendo mate, Sr. Fred.
Gracias por su atención.
El Bubba “Si se puedes”
By Stone
April 15, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this
El Bubba I am a man, but “Truth hurts” (aka Tink, aka Sue, aka Linguist wanabe) might disagree. But you’re right, she is a woman, no doubt about it.
By ElBubba
April 16, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this
Stone, I knew you were a man (the adam’s apple…) El Bubba
By ElBubba
April 16, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this
What is this, hump day?
I promise I won’t criticize anyone’s grammar or gender, maybe…
El Bubba
By Stone
April 16, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this
El Bubba, darn my scarf must have slipped. And to think I shaved my legs and armpits for nothing.
By Stone
April 16, 2008 4:18 PM | Link to this
DON’T TASE ME BRO, I’VE GOT GAS Lt. is tasering a guy who has just been caught siphoning gas a good idea? Might he explode? It could be considered cruel and unusual punishment, don’t ya think? Though you have to admit, his chances of repeating the crime does go way down.
By ElBubba
April 16, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this
Stone,
I’m going to get tased some day, just so I know what I’m talking about.
It’s a slow day, let me tell a quck story…
I was at a Whitewater Rafting Company and one of the guests was a young cop from ATL. He got drunk and they asked him to stop it with the fireworks, because the local cops would come. He kept saying he had more firepower than the local cops, hmmm…
Then he pulled out his taser. I had my chance, I could have done it, but I chose to watch one of the guides get tased. His buddies held him over an upturned raft and the cop shot him.
I’m not a linguist, or a lawyer, but I was sort of wondering about the liability of letting a young cop randomly shoot people with a taser. Who would be responsible if that raft guide kid had a heart attack?
They are weird little dart looking things, with wires…
El Bubba
By David
April 16, 2008 11:06 PM | Link to this
First of all, as a retired officer myself ,I’m saying that Atl.officer with the taser is a real dumb a—! Next, yes he can be sued to hell and back by the young guide that he tased . If his IA people find out about this he’s going to be in a world of trouble with them also! The company that the other guides worked for could get sued also as could the guides that held the kid down!
By Bubba, Jr.
April 17, 2008 7:40 AM | Link to this
Will the real Bubba Jr. please stand up. I know Bubba Jr., and you sir, are not him.
By reader
April 17, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this
Law enforcement is a noble profession. However, anyone who feels the need to boast about what he does for a living, and who plays with a weapon in public, seems to be lacking character strength, and, perhaps is compensating for some personality defect or other defeciciency. The guy just was not ready for the responsibility.
By Lt. Steve
April 17, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this
Uh—sorry. What was the question?
By ElBubba
April 17, 2008 6:08 PM | Link to this
Everything is coming together nicely, the planets will align perfectly, I have seen the signs…
Lt. Steve wrote about the llamas on the highway, then there was a Zebra. Today it was a pig that the cops tasered, then they gave it a leathal injection (A day after the Supreme Court said it was OK).
These were not random events, they are signs of the times.
El Bubba
By Larry
April 19, 2008 6:46 PM | Link to this
Looks like Obama in 08. Majority in congress too. We might get our healthcare. We might get our social security. We might get laid.
well, I shouldn’t get carried away.
By Fred
April 20, 2008 1:27 AM | Link to this
Dear Larry,
I “get” MY healthcare regardless who is in office. I PAY FOR IT MYSELF. Gee what a novel concept. Why don’t you try it? Then you wouldn’t have to steal from me to get YOURS. And you might also get laid. What self respecting woman wants to sleep with a loser who has to have the Gov’t steal money from other folks to give to him so he can live?
By Larry
April 20, 2008 5:55 PM | Link to this
Well!
By ElBubba
April 20, 2008 9:10 PM | Link to this
Larry, All you have to do these days is wink at a chick and say “Obama”. Works every time. ElBubba
By Aurora
April 21, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this
I received a letter and a check from World City Financial, Inc. that I came in second in the Canadian Lottery, along with 10 others, in our “Category”. The check was in the amount of $4,900.
It was sent without any return address, and my name and address were on a label. My winning document was addressed to “Sir/Madam…”
First of all, I didn’t enter any Canadian Lottery (NEVER been to Canada, and I don’t even play Georgia’s lottery), and if it were ligit, I would not have been notified by “bulk class mai, pre-sorted”…….
By gadyke
April 21, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this
El Bubba….can’t remember your blog addy…could you pass it on again?
By ElBubba
April 21, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this
gadyke,
Now I’m worried, are you a fan or a stalker? Is it because I said “chick”? I’m really worried, let me think about it
El Bubba
By ElBubba
April 21, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this
What harm could come of my musings?
http://honkeyplease.blogspot.com/
El Bubba