{"id":10,"date":"2006-12-08T20:43:22","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T04:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2006-12-08T20:50:32","modified_gmt":"2006-12-09T04:50:32","slug":"black-money-scam-as-seen-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/2006\/12\/black-money-scam-as-seen-on-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Black Money&#8221; Scam &#8211; As seen on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span class=\"style5\" \/><\/font><strong>If you can wait while the ad plays, this is a very interesting backgrounder for the &#8216;Nigerian&#8217; scam called &#8216;Black Money&#8217;.  In this scam, suitcases full of black paper are sold, along with a very expensive chemical which they claim will wash the black ink off the money, returning it to it&#8217;s full value. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a title=\"Black Money Scam on ABC news\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Video\/playerIndex?id=2710727\">Black Money Scam on ABC News <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">They claim that the cash has been marked to make it non-legal tender or to hide it from customs.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The father of a suitor of Chelsea Clinton (Ed Mezvinsky) has fallen foul of this scam himself, and the ensuing race to raise cash has landed him in jail.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mezvinsky&#8217;s stories sound fantastic. At one point, he says, he found himself in Africa gazing on an open suitcase filled with paper shaped like money, although the bills were black.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s the way they would hide it,&#8221; he says. &#8220;The man later came out with a chemical, threw it on the money, and it all turned to $100 bills. He gave me 10 to have them tested back home. And they were real.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some of the African schemes were not far removed from the classic, laughable Nigerian scams often run through the Internet &#8211; seeking victims with financial backing to extract millions out of bogus accounts. Others were sophisticated oil prospects.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/crab.rutgers.edu\/~mchugh\/nigeriamezvinsky.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can wait while the ad plays, this is a very interesting backgrounder for the &#8216;Nigerian&#8217; scam called &#8216;Black Money&#8217;. In this scam, suitcases full of black paper are sold, along with a very expensive chemical which they claim will wash the black ink off the money, returning it to it&#8217;s full value. Black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,10,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}