Walk into any of local pubs in your town and find flashy cars packed outside. What’s typical of them is that the class of cars parked outside does not seem to correspond with the small, overcrowded pubs, most selling wines, spirits or keg.
Inside the pubs you find smartly dressed men( some in suits) conversing in low tones as they consume alcoholic drinks. They’re expensively/smartly dressed though not known to be in any gainful/legal employment/ business.
Most if not all are WASH WASH SCAMMERS. They’re most likely trying to identify their next victim…and you could be the one. In the company you’ll find a few women tasked with identifying and luring easy unsuspecting targets(victims, customers) for the fraudsters.
How exactly do they work?
They typically offer a victim a share of a large consignment of banknotes that have been stained black .The scammer then demonstrates how the notes can be recovered by cleaning a few with a “special chemical”. The chemical quickly removes the black stain and a clean bank note is revealed.
He then explains to the victim that it was the only sample of the chemical he/they had, and that the victim needs to buy more to clean the notes. He may at this stage introduce a second contact who can supposedly supply the chemicals in the quantities required – At a price.
What he does not explain is that the trunk box full of black money is only cut-up black craft paper, not money at all. The victim will then be persuaded to pay more and more for nonexistent or useless chemicals. What’s surprising/intriguing is that they still get customers/victims regularly.
The sequence of events in the scam;
Phases of the scam First contact, Advance fees, the fraud starts, More funds needed to pay for washing chemical fluid, A trunk full of black money?, Victim goes to see the “money”, Washing a small sample of the black “money”, Delay after delay, more fees, no money, Reporting of the crime, Terminology used in the scam.
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