Shauna Foster - the TRUE STORY

Some of you may have received an email over the last week or so regarding my friend & former co-worker Shauna. What you likely got had been altered in some way and was not true, or had been stretched via the gossip-grapevine! Shauna asked me to pass on the true story & information. Here’s the real deal:

Hi There,
 
Thank you everyone for thoughtful emails and calls during this nasty week. I never imagined sending a note to a few friends and family would escalate into such a huge email panic!    And because the note was written during a hasty, emotional time, I would like to clarify a few things. 
 
Saskatoon Police have been wonderful in educating us about money order fraud and web-related crimes in general and our case is in their very capable hands.  
 
Please don’t feel the need to be “scared”.  Just take my experience as a caution to always be careful.   Saskatoon Police will be chatting with the various news stations around town if you would like more information, I’m sure you’ll find it in the local newscasts.  W5 also has recently run an excellent program on various types of fraud. 
 
Just to be clear, the reason the money was deducted from our account is because when an incident of money order fraud occurs, banks have no choice but to turn to the client to reimburse that full amount. In our case, it was an awful lot, sad to say.  The “bad guys” didn’t gain access to our account and bleed us dry, we never gave out any account information, so please don’t be scared of that. 
 
It is unfortunate these fraudsters are getting so good at fakes.
 
Pls. forward this update to all your friends and family and hopefully we can move on from this. 
 
Thanks again everyone. There is no need to respond to this email. 
 
Shauna