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- h0ser, on 05/11/2008, -7/+85what an idiot, some people deserve to be scammed for being so naive.
- mihnea007, on 05/11/2008, -0/+58That guy was an idiot. He obviously got the liquid mixture wrong, that's why it didn't work!
- prompel, on 05/11/2008, -0/+59I don't believe this story. How did such a monumentally stupid person get hold of $35,000?
- bxblox, on 05/11/2008, -0/+46A fool and his money...
- inactive, on 05/11/2008, -0/+44That's not a scam that's testing stupidity.
- ummmmm, on 05/11/2008, -4/+37If you fall for something like that, you deserve to lose your money.
- EvilFerret, on 05/11/2008, -1/+31If you pour water directly over your motherboard your computer will run 10X better after each application. I tried it around 15yrs ago on my 368 33mhz rig. Needless to say, I'm still using the exact same rig and playing Crysis on extreme settings.
- carve, on 05/11/2008, -0/+27Come on over...I'll show you. Don't forget to bring money.
- Jeffler, on 05/11/2008, -1/+15Pfft, noob, I used tartar sauce and I'm doing that in a virtual PC of Vista, on Vista, on Leopard, using my apple II.
- nullvariable, on 05/11/2008, -0/+14the real scam is that the guy being charged isn't a con man and the other guy never had 35k!
- essjay, on 05/11/2008, -0/+13I've seen a similar scam. Where people claim that black pieces of paper are terminated real bank notes. They aren't allowed to burn or destroy them (this is Britain, and it has the Queens face on it, so it's no allowed) so they dye them. Then people sell a solution that allegedly removes the dye revealing a real bank note. They demonstrate it a few times in front of you to prove it works. A couple of different techniques they use, it could be slight of hand or they have actual bank notes, which they add a protective coating to and then dye, the mild alcohol solution removes the dye. What ever technique they use, it appears to work. Then they sell you say £100 worth of spoiled notes for a tenner along with the solution. Of course, these are just plain pieces of paper and the solution is turpentine or something. Alot of people get scammed this way.
- blackjack75, on 05/11/2008, -0/+10Maybe he scammed someone even more stupid?
- Modulo, on 05/11/2008, -0/+10Dude, the guy just had to come back to the place and get it. It's not exactly Ocean's 11. More like going to pick up a cake.
Dammit I'm totally fixated on cake today I have to watch that.
Also I have to keep an eye on the talking to myself on the internet. - McBradd, on 05/11/2008, -0/+10Not the best scam artist, because he still had to steal the money. A good scam artist would have convinced the man to give him the money outright.
- BaoUnit, on 05/11/2008, -1/+10Haha, what a noob..
- bicyclethief, on 05/11/2008, -0/+9You've got to then put the money on the grill and slather on more sauce before it doubles, silly.
- blackjack75, on 05/11/2008, -0/+9So they sell both the notes and the ink for a low price.. .and no-one wonders why they just don't use them themselves? Darwinism in action.
- frasermoo, on 05/11/2008, -1/+9anybody who marinates $35,000 does.
- getbusylivin, on 05/11/2008, -0/+8 Maybe he didn't get the cash to special liquid ratio correct. Probably worth another try.
- Barman, on 05/11/2008, -6/+14Sorry, but good for the scam artist!
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..................................., - Puppetfunk, on 05/11/2008, -0/+6"A Vietnamese man in Norway" Neither of those are America.
- hmunkey, on 05/11/2008, -11/+18No one deserves to be scammed. That said, some people are incredibly stupid.
- crapmatic, on 05/11/2008, -0/+6Well he didn't exactly lose any of the money, right, since the conman was caught with all the money? Couldn't they give it back? What am I missing here?
- workharderscum, on 05/11/2008, -0/+5idiot tax
- defectDS, on 05/11/2008, -0/+5In defense of the guy, he didn't pour liquid on the bills and intended to watch them magically double. He thought that by mixing real bills and blank bills, stacked one between the another, that the liquid would somehow cause the ink to transfer onto the blank bills.
Oh wait, he really is that naive. Nvm. - CarnivalOfDust, on 05/11/2008, -1/+5Hey, gullible people are going to lose their money eventually. Like all those people who got screwed in that one... what was it called?
[The rest of this comment has been removed due to a complaint from the Church of Scientology Ltd] - Modulo, on 05/11/2008, -1/+5Indeed, we do. And yet, here you are. Doing this.
- fakekevinrose, on 05/11/2008, -0/+4This is why i only accept lioncash
- St0rmz, on 05/11/2008, -1/+6buried for being old "180,000 kroner (35,00 dollars, 23,000 euros)" im pretty sure thats not right.
- smotpoker, on 05/11/2008, -0/+4Proof he actually stole it? It is a pretty far-fetched scam and I didn't read anything about video evidence... Almost sounds like the victim felt ripped off by the guy due to a shady deal or some such and felt compelled to make up a story to get his money back and/or punish the guy he's accusing.
Even if the story isn't made up, it's still possible someone else snuck in in the middle of the night and stole it. Either way, it sounds like they don't have proof the money in the suspect's possession was stolen or that he stole anything.
Out of the possible scenarios, the begrudged-victim version seems most feasible to me. I suppose the best way to find out is ask what this miracle solution was supposed to consist of and analyze the bills in hopes that they weren't exchanged before apprehending the suspect - SpyDerMann, on 05/11/2008, -0/+4Just imagine if that worked. He would have ended up with REVERSED BILLS. This is a double scam (unless of course the reversed bills could have transferred their ink in 100% to new blanks... ow my head!)
- Mothrog, on 05/12/2008, -0/+2Will you give me $35k then?
- LuxFX, on 05/12/2008, -0/+2imagine trying to deposit a load of NETs and YTNEWTs. Or worse yet, the 20's would come out as 02's!
- zerokie1, on 05/11/2008, -1/+5How did he make 35K dollars at first place.
- Codee, on 05/11/2008, -0/+2"I'm an idiot"...(the echo replied)..."You're an idiot" _The Grinch_
- inactive, on 05/12/2008, -0/+2LOL MORON
- inactive, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1WHY DIDNT THIS WORK!!!!??
- PunkRockRalph, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1how did such a moron come up with 35,000 dollars.
- Mothrog, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1You're an idiot. America isn't exactly the only place where inheritance is allowed, and it was in Norway.
- Black6x, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1This could only be funnier if the marinade were Teriyaki.
- WCL23, on 05/11/2008, -3/+5We all know the saying, "a fool and his money are soon parted".
- andrew97068, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1hmm... it looks as though the guy who lost all the money wrote the article.
- ep53, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1Im still confused, please explain....All i have is a load of sparks, and now it wont turn on at all (am on 2nd PC).
- bexamous, on 05/11/2008, -2/+3LOL agreed. That is the only part of the story that didn't make sense.
- BassJunkie, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1.....are easily left to marinate?
- Corrosionx, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1"Let he who will be deceived.. be deceived" -Legal maxim
- duggtodeath, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1Moneysauce
- Ladymongoose, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1Moron.
- HappyScrappy, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1A reverse variant on the Black Money scam. A very common variant of the Spanish Prisoner where there was supposedly there was a big pile of money that was somehow dirty (or perhaps marked) and thus a person who was willing to spend a little money to buy special cleaning fluid to clean the money could then take most of the now clean money (after a small fee) for himself.
Of course the grifters would take the person's money and disappear.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_money_scam -
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