Authorities in maryland have warned the public about a potential holiday scam that involves the temptation of a 100 bill left on a car windshield.
One hundred dollar door handle snopes.
This is a hoax.
Posts circulating on social media about 100 bills and zip ties in canadian and u s.
On thursday a post began circulating on twitter instagram whatsapp and facebook.
Cities appear to be a hoax police say.
Summary of the erumor.
According to a post copied and pasted thousands of times on facebook sex traffickers are leaving 100 bills laced with a debilitating agent on door handles of cars parked near malls in order to abduct incapacitated shoppers.
The message claims that the laced 100 bills are being left on car door handles so that when the victim returns to the vehicle he or she will touch the bill and then pass out.
Some of the most popular versions of this warning vaguely attribute the alleged location of the crime as northgate mall.
Warning claims parking lot carjackers are placing flyers or 100 bills on the windows of cars then taking the cars when drivers step out of their vehicles to remove them.
Local police departments across canada and a mall manager told afp this did not happen.
Wrapped with a red ribbon and attached to her car door handle.
The department of homeland security says human trafficking in which people are forced into labor or sex is a multi billion dollar industry according to time with between 18 000 and.
In this case it is drug laced 100 bills left on car door handles that incapacitate unwary female motorists returning to their cars for the purposes of fuelling the sex trafficking industry according to the breathless warnings.
Warnings have gone viral on social media to watch out for abductors who lace 100 bills with a chemical that knocks out their victims on contact.
Claiming that a woman found a 100 bill wrapped with a red ribbon on her car door handle at northgate mall in burnaby and noticed a man in a van was watching her.