PROVIDENCE -- Two Liberians who allegedly targeted the wealthy in an elaborate bait-and-switch cash scheme that left their victims with worthless construction paper are facing up to 25 years in prison after they were arrested last Friday during an undercover investigation, federal authorities said today. “I can’t get in the minds of the victims why they would think this is real,” said Thomas M. Powers, resident agent in charge of the Providence office of the US Secret Service, during a press conference at that office. Powers said the men struck up conversations with people who bore obvious signs of wealth, such as expensive cars. They would then convince their victims they could use their own money to spark a chemical process that would remove black ink from the blocks of paper, to reveal US currency. The con men told their victims the money was blackened so it could be smuggled into the US. The suspects met one Fall River, Mass. man at a downtown Providence hotel and allegedly managed to steal from him $100,000.
I’ll fall for this 9 out of 10 times and it’ll be worth it every time. If it cost me $100 bucks for a chance at thousands, count me in…when someone offers you odds like that, you take it every time. You only gotta hit big once for it to be worth it…
Like yea these Liberians are just your average hoaxsters trying to make a dishonest buck, but the blames on the victims here, everyone know’s Liberians are full of shit, it’s the Nigerians you want to run into. They’ve got princesses, ousted presidents, and royal heirs up the wazzoo over there, just itching to spread the wealth. That’s the first question I would have asked, are you Nigerian? No, you’re just a couple average Liberians? No thanks guys (ok, maybe I’d try out like $5 worth of the black money just because you never know, right, but I wouldn’t go buying the farm over this stuff).
