‼️‼️NOTICE TO ALL LADIES AND MEN: ‼️‼️ A friend was put t...
“‼️‼️NOTICE TO ALL LADIES AND MEN: ‼️‼️ A friend was put to sleep in the bathroom of a cinema and everything was stolen from her and she doesn't remember anything, only that a woman gave her a perfume to smell. I was also approached yesterday afternoon around 3:30 pm in the parking lot of the shopping precinct by two men who asked what kind of perfume I was wearing. Then they asked me if I would like to smell a sensational type of perfume that they were selling at a sale price. I probably would have accepted if I hadn't received this notice about THE PERFUME SHOCK. The men remained between the parked cars, l imagine waiting for someone else to show up. I stopped a lady who was walking towards them and warned her. I had been warned that in shopping malls or parking lots there are people who approach you to offer you to SMELL THE PERFUME they are selling but it is NOT actually perfume, IT IS AXTER. When you smell it you faint and they take advantage of the opportunity to steal everything of value you carry. PLEASE: copy this message and send it to your friends as they are operating everywhere. Ladies be aware of your surroundings, while out shopping or doing errands. Crazy people in the world. * Copy and Paste to make ladies aware. *copying and pasting goes farther than a share. I copied from a friend and am posting to my friends.”
Summary
There is no credible evidence that thieves use drug‑laden perfume to knock out and rob people. Fact‑checking organizations have repeatedly debunked the story as an urban legend dating back to the 1990s, and no police or court records support the claim. The alleged “AXTER” perfume scam is a hoax.
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- FWD: FWD: WARNING! Tell Everyone! | Washington State
I wanted to do the same for you. A quick search on Snopes.com shows that ether-wielding robbers are probably nonexistent. An Alabama woman claimed this happened to her in 1999, but no evidence ever surfaced to verify her story. According to the myth-busters at Snopes, it takes more than a few ...
- No, Criminals Are Not Using Drugged Perfume to Rob People | Snopes.com
Somebody else sent us a note that said, "The story is going around Facebook about people stopping women to let them sniff perfume samples which knock them out so they can be robbed and raped. The stuff that they're supposedly sniffing is AXETER.
- Are Robbers Subduing Victims with Perfume? | Snopes.com
Now, men asking passing women about the perfume they're wearing isn't at all the same thing as crooks using rigged perfume bottles to knock out their victims.
- Thieves aren't using perfume to knock out victims, despite persistent rumors | Snopes.com
An urban legend that has long plagued ... that strangers are approaching women in public places such as parking lots and movie theater bathrooms and robbing them after knocking them out using drug-laced perfume....
- Knockout Perfume Scam
Knockout Perfume Scam · A number of people on campus have reported receiving an email regarding males asking females to sniff a bottle of perfume. The email claims that the perfume is really ether and anyone who sniffs it will pass out
- No need to fear the perfume seller – 1990s hoax about fainting after sniffing perfume still not backed by evidence - Africa Check
Earlier versions blamed ether, an early anaesthetic drug reported to be sweet-smelling and primarily administered via inhalation. But no good evidence ties this to incidents of theft in the contexts claimed.
- Perfume Hoax: The 90s Fainting Myth Debunked - en.batampena.com
These alarming tales, often set ... restrooms, describe victims being instantly rendered unconscious by a mysterious substance in the perfume, only to awaken later having been robbed of all their valuables....
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