Wash Wash Scam
Easy money is a dream held by almost everyone at some point in their lives, they win the lottery or find hidden treasure and all without pain or strain. For most people that dream is never realized and eventually they accept that it not too much in life is easily gained. The Wash Wash ripoff is a relatively new ripoff and uses misdirection combined with technology of a virtuoso level to accomplish this and lure in victims.
This scam is very similar to the advanced fee fraud except that there is actually a trunk of "money" which is used as an enticement. The way it works is that after an initial contact by a conman, marks are convinced that the black money in a trunk or safe is the real thing and, in fact, the one or two bills that are shown to them are very real indeed.
The money is black in color, and the conman tells the victim the dye is for avoidance of tax payments. The money has been turned black through a combination of raspberry Kool-Aid, iodine and white glue, as interviews with apprehended con artists have revealed.
With the rest of the encasement actually filled with black construction paper, when one is asked to pick a bill it is swapped out with the treated one using slight-of-hand. When a chemical solution is applied, the treated bill returns to its original state leaving one to believe that the entire contents of the trunk or safe are real bills.
The victim typically receives an email that was sent randomly among a list of email addresses that the scam artists pick up for one reason or another. Not many people will actually respond, but correspondence will result in eventual phone conversations; if this happens to you, you can use telephone-records-search.com/201/610/ to find out whether or not they're a legitimate source or service, or if that number has been linked to other scams.
You'll often be asked for money to address shipping fees and other costs that might be inherent in the transfer of the money. No matter the reason they give, they want to get you to give them the money. Victims who then become suspicious of the scammers will then be force to sign a document that states that they know that this is illegal money and that they'll be getting it by avoiding taxes and customs procedures, in order to make it seem legitimate.
Ripoffs are most efficient when they are new because like well done stage magic it takes watching and studying to figure out how they are doing it and where the "catch" is. There is no way to win with a ripoff artist and with ripoffs like these even "proof" such as the victim taking the trunk with them to keep in a secure place, is of anything but another misdirection. A container full of black construction paper has no value because the ripoff artists will do anything to keep the money flowing from the victim. Some Wash Wash Ripoff artists tell the victim that exposure to light or air will chemically alter the paper and render the money valueless, this buys them more time before the fraud is discovered and they use that time to request more cash from the victim supposedly to buy chemicals or pay more bribes.
The Wash Wash Ripoff has been reported on occasion by victims and the few arrests made and were due to the victims reports to the authorities. Ripoff artists rely on the victim's shame at being misled to escape detection and delay the authorities search for them but a brave victim who reports can help stop these fraud attempts and save others from the same fate.
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