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When I lived in Florida in the '90s, there was a big story in the news about a woman who was contacted by scammers claiming to be the FBI. They told her they needed her help to catch some criminal, and that they needed her to take out $5000 in cash from her savings account and give it to them in a public place. She did this, and they contacted her again and said they almost had the guy but they needed her to take out another $5000, which she did. She only got suspicious and called the cops after they tried this a third time but nobody showed up to receive the money. Apparently they assumed she was on to them and that the third time was a trap set up by the police.
Why would you do this in person in a country that will prosecute you?
If I was unscrupulous, I would do this but you bet your ass, I would first migrate to a country that doesn't extradite. Nobody in [Blank] gives a fuck if you scam some grandma in USA
Often the person who collects the cash is ALSO being controlled by the scammer.
🤔 Scamception?
That's interesting
yeah. it's called hawala.
If you have somebody gullible enough to hand you a bag full of cash, you have to be there to receive the bag. You can scam from India or wherever, but you have to deal with gift cards and the like.