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Coin-rolling related scams are a collection of scams involving coin wrappers (rolls of coins). The scammer will roll coins of lesser value or slugs of no value, or less than the correct number of coins in a roll, then exchange them at a bank or retail outlet for cash.
In this scam, a fortune teller uses cold reading skills to detect that a client is genuinely troubled rather than merely seeking entertainment; or is a gambler complaining of bad luck. The fortune teller informs the mark that they are the victim of a curse , and that for a fee a spell can be cast to remove the curse.
A New York “scumbag scam artist” swindled an elderly Florida woman out of her life savings as part of a heartless lottery scheme, police said on Wednesday. Shania Baptiste, 25, and two others ...
As a seasoned bank teller, Rachael P. has seen her fair share of peculiar requests, and asking for $50 bills ranks high on the list of things that can make a teller’s day a little more complicated.
This is story of “Operation Goldfinger,” how police sprang into action to try and prevent con artists from stealing a hunk of a Georgia couple’s life savings.
Eric Pfeiffer Newman (May 25, 1911 – November 15, 2017) was an American numismatist. [1] [2] [3] He wrote several "works about early American coins and paper money considered the standards on their subjects", as well as hundreds of articles. [4]
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Fortune telling fraud, also called the bujo or egg curse scam, is a type of confidence trick, based on a claim of secret or occult information. The basic feature of the scam involves diagnosing the victim (the "mark") with some sort of secret problem that only the grifter can detect or diagnose, and then charging the mark for ineffectual ...