http://www.coloradoan.com/news/coloradoanpublishing/Miller/
This happened to a girl in Fort Collins who worked up the street from where I lived last year. I had seen signs all over town saying that Lacy Miller was missing, and soon it was in the news that she had been kidnapped by someone who posed as a police officer.
I'm not going to go into details, but when I read the article in the paper after the man was convicted, I cried. I don't know how someone could do something so horrid as what he did to her.
It's already illegal to impersonate a police officer, but it's not illegal to purchase police gear. Tougher laws are being looked at, that will have more severe penalties.
So, be careful, and know that while the story in the email may or may not be fake, Lacy's story is unfortunately real.