Latest E-Mail Scam Offers Reprieve -- at a Price -- From Killer-for-Hire

If only real hit men were so courteous. In recent months, authorities said, about a dozen Fairfax and Stafford county residents have received e-mails telling them that they are about to be killed. There is a twist: The killer offers a way out. "The sender tells the receiver, 'I've been hired to k...
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Karin Brulliard

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