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  2. Pigeon drop - Wikipedia

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    Shredded paper, which has been used as a decoy for cash in this scam [1]. The pigeon drop or Spanish handkerchief or Chilean handkerchief is a confidence trick in which a mark, or "pigeon", is persuaded to give up a sum of money in order to secure the rights to a larger sum of money, or more valuable object.

  3. Kleptocracy - Wikipedia

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    Second, kleptocrats take advantage of incorporation agents, lawyers, and realtors to unknowingly launder their money. Montenegro's president Milo Đukanović was listed among the twenty richest world leaders according to the British tabloid newspaper The Independent in May 2010, which described the source of his wealth as "mysterious".

  4. Slang terms for money - Wikipedia

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    Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...

  5. How to fight Venmo and PayPal scams - AOL

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    But the problem is, that money is likely stolen in the first place. Criminals will use pilfered credit cards and attach them to phony cash app profiles. They’ll then send the cash to victims and ...

  6. Lesson of the widow's mite - Wikipedia

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    A bronze mite, also known as a Lepton (meaning small), minted by Alexander Jannaeus, King of Judaea, 103–76 BC and still in circulation at the time of Jesus [1]. The lesson of the widow's mite or the widow's offering is presented in two of the Synoptic Gospels (Mark 12:41–44 and Luke 21:1–4), when Jesus is teaching in the Temple in Jerusalem.

  7. Can You Solve the ‘A Man Steals $100 From a Shop’ Riddle?

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    Man putting money into his wallet. Riddles are an amusing way to work out the brain. ... There's a clear loss of $100 upfront when the money is stolen. Yet soon after, the shop owner regains that ...

  8. Postal Service worker accused of swiping cash, coins and ...

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    A U.S. Postal Service worker from Compton was arrested on suspicion of swiping more than 20 checks from the mail and depositing $281,000 into various bank accounts under her name, authorities said.

  9. Matthew 28:12 - Wikipedia

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    Matthew 28:12 is the twelfth verse of the twenty-eighth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.This verse is part of the resurrection narrative. In this verse the guards of the tomb, after being present for an angel hearkening the resurrection, are bribed by the priests to lie about what they saw.