Swindlers Take $6,000 From Victim (serious dumbass)

[Anonymous]

Greenville County investigators are warning the public about a pair of swindlers.

Deputies said a woman was in the parking lot of Wal-Mart on Woodruff Road when she was approached by another woman, who told the victim that she had $8,000 in cash, but did not like the serial numbers on the money and wanted to exchange it with the victim.

The victim was asked to go to her bank with anothe man, withdraw $6,000 and give it to the suspect, and in turn she would receive the $8,000.

When the victim withdrew the money and gave it to the woman, the woman and the man left without giving the victim anything.

The victim was not hurt.

Investigators said people should take steps to avoid this situation, such as:

# Never shop alone.
# Do not speak to strangers.
# Ask yourself why someone would give you more money than they will receive.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/wyff/20051201/lo_wyff/3096375


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[try another castle]

That sounds like a less sophisticated variation on the "money inspector" ruse. Cons would go up to people at ATMs, and say that they were representatives of the bank doing an investigation regarding counterfeit bills that were being distributed by the ATM. They asked the "mark" to withdraw $100 from the ATM and give it to them, and they would later reimburse them. Obviously, that never happened.

Another good bank ruse is the one where two cons dress up as armored car attendants, or bank employees, and stand outside an ATM station with a lock box and a clipboard. When people would go up to deposit money, they would tell them that the machines aren't working, and that they could give them their deposits, and they would record it on their clipboard, and the money should be available that evening.