Reply #3: Send your friend to Snopes.com before forwarding emails [View All]

[AlGore-08.com]

*677 is for the Ontario Provincal Police - - so unless this is only going out to folks in Ontario, it's useless.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/fakecop.asp

Claim: College student who by dialing #77 on her cell phone evades a rapist pretending to be a police officer.

Status: Multiple — see below.


Co-ed named Lauren evades rapist who had been masquerading as a police officer:
Undetermined.

Rapists and murderers have been known to pass themselves off as police officers:
True.

Dialing #77 on your cell phone will connect you with the highway patrol:
True in some states, False in others.

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Variations:
A March 2002 version changes the girl's name from Lauren to Lisa.

An October 2003 version moves the action to Australia. Once again, 19-year-old Lauren barely escapes disaster, but does so this time by using the "No. 112 feature" on her cell phone to summon help.

A July 2004 version shifted the story to Canada. Yet again, 19-year-old Lauren barely escapes disaster, but in this instance she does so by dialing *677. (The number *677, aka *OPP, is the non-emergency cell caller line of the Ontario Provincial Police.)

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