May 16
Marinating Your Money Just Makes Soggy Money
A man of Vietnamese descent in Norway was scammed out of the equivalent of $35,000 American dollars by a Frenchman who told him he could double his money by soaking it in a special liquid along with blank bills.
The suspect assured the victim that if he mixed real cash with blank bills then soaked it overnight, the ink from the real money would apparently transfer to the blank bills, somehow in the exact same configuration, and with enough strength to make the blank bills be convincing.
The victim inexplicably believed the Frenchman and handed over 180,000 kroner, but discovered that the Frenchman and the cash had both departed without leaving a forwarding address the next morning.
There may well have been a language barrier involved: a Frenchman and a Vietnamese man having a conversation in Norway just sounds confusing to me. But there must have been a common sense barrier as well, according to police officer Ragnar Ingberg:
“He has given a statement that leads us to believe that he really believed this was possible. But we are of course having a hard time understanding how someone could actually believe such a tall tale.”
There is a little good news, but you’ll have to read the article for that.
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May 16th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Wow. Some people will do anything for money. Unbelievable.