Forward that keeps you step ahead of carjackers

Don't stop and get out of your car to remove any stickers on rear window, it's a trick to steal your vehicle, goes an e-mail doing the rounds of Internet groups lately

Forward that keeps you step ahead of carjackers

Don't stop and get out of your car to remove any stickers on rear window, it's a trick to steal your vehicle, goes an e-mail doing the rounds of Internet groups lately

An emailu00a0asking neitizens to be on the alert against innocuous-looking carjackers, who walk up to the rear window of a car and casually slap stickers on it as part of their game, is being widely circulated over the past few days on groups like Twitter and other online forums such as FM Zone and Outer Ring Road Companies Association.

"When you look into the rear view mirror of your car, you notice a piece of paper stuck to the middle of the rear screen. So you stop, and jump out of your car to remove the paper, because it is obstructing your view. When you reach the back of your car, the carjackers appear out of nowhere. They jump in and take off. They practically run you over as they speed off," reads the mail.

Vishwanath S, manager, AOL, received such an email from a member of FM Zone, a forum for facility managers of over 90 leading IT companies.

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"We are circulating the email among our members so car users are alerted. Incidents of people losing valuables to tricks like this are heard often,u00a0 so such messages prove useful," said Vishwanath.

Sunil V, another FM Zone member, has been emailing the warning to all his contacts. "After a techie in Wipro forwarded it to me, I have made it a point to ensure the warning reaches as many people as possible, because I think it will help prevent crime," said Sunil.

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While the email warning is attributed to the city police, M R Poojar, additional commissioner of police (law and order), denied his department had anything to do with initiating or circulating the message.

"We haven't sent any such messages. However, creating awareness on issues like carjacking certainly proves to be useful," said Poojar.

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