South Africa

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | March 15th, 2005 | Trackback

A new scam is born every day, but it is still hard to imagine anyone falling for the “black dollar scam” that has been practiced recently outside the U.S. Consulate General in Johannesburg. The con men show their victim a bottle of “automatic solution” marked with American flags and purportedly obtained from a contact inside the consulate that will wash off black coating covering U.S. currency. The blackened bank notes supposedly had been lost or stolen on their way to the consulate, and the victim simply needs to buy the solution for $5,000 to obtain a case containing one million dollars of blackened bills. Arrests have been made, but no doubt more gullible victims remain at large.

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