Quite the little scam here
From
United Press International:
Man tried to sell blank 'money'
A man from Liberia is charged with trying to unload a bag of white paper he claimed was $4 million in cash at a New York hotel.
The criminal complaint against Calvin Swen claims he was trying to find buyers for eight bricks of white paper that he claimed were incognito $100 bills, The New York Sun reported Monday.
Swen allegedly told a prospective buyer the money was intended to be foreign aid for Sierra Leone and had been dyed white to prevent couriers from being robbed. Swen said the paper would be revealed as actual $100 bills when placed between two actual bills. For this reason, the criminal complaint says, the attempted con man insisted the prospective buyer bring along $5 million in cash.
However, the prospective buyer was an undercover FBI agent, and Swen was arrested and charged with attempting to sell counterfeit money.
Cute story but he sure picked the wrong mark...
Posted by DaveH at May 7, 2007 8:42 PM