Anthony Morrison: Scam Alert: Pigeon Drop Scam
Important scam alert from Anthony Morrison! In the “pigeon drop scam” the scam victim has to pay a certain amount of money in order to secure the rights to a larger amount of money. A variation of this scam is that instead of money the scam victim may get offered a valuable object. Then once the person sends the money the scam artist disappears or they get sent a fake object such as in the case of jewelry. One very common variation of this scam is called “black dollar” or “black money” scam. In this case the scam artists claim that they have smuggled a fortune into the country. The scam plot is that the money has been colored black and the tint can be later removed by the person who claims the money – in this case the scam victim. The scam victim is somehow showed how to this and then buys more of these “black dollars” which at the end of the scam turns out to be fake.