Swedish man paid cash to have money cleaned
Published: 29 Feb 12 16:30 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/39410/20120229/
A man from northern Sweden has been fooled into paying large sums of cash to have money "laundered" after a trickster convinced him that having the stained notes cleaned would earn him millions
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The scammer had told the man that he was in possession of millions of kronor worth of bank notes, which had been coloured black, and were thus worthless.
With the right cleaning equipment, the man explained that the bank notes could be literally washed, making both men millionaires.
The gullible Piteå man travelled the length of the country to Malmö in order to meet the 30-year-old con-artist, and was so convinced by his plight that he gave him a further 40,000 kronor.
He was persuaded by the scammer to pay more after hearing that the washing process would take longer and cost more than was initially predicted.
The trickster again asked for more money for the cash clean-up, this time claiming that he needed 300,000 Euros before the millions would start pouring in.
The man did not have enough money to cover these alleged costs, and called in a friend to raise the cash.
However, the journey ended one day in November when the "lawyers and UN officials" introduced by the scammer vanished at a blistering speed and with them any chance of the promised windfall.
The trickster is now charged by police of conning the two men out of nearly 2.7 million kronor.
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He would be in the UK.....
This is just crass.
There are plenty of innocent vulnerable people who end up falling victim to other types of scams too. Unfortunately there is really no way to guard yourself against these types of things unless you start suspecting anything and everyone. It's sad to have to protect onesself in this way.
The garage owners who inform these ladies that their car's engine needs to be replaced, or that their car needs some other kind of expensive and unnecessary repair, get arrested or fined.
Similarly Sweden should (if it does not already) employ at least a few elderly undercover operations people, to catch all kinds of financial abuses that are used to victimize the elderly by stealing their money.