Hundred Dollar Bill In Door Handle

This claim is false.

Hundred dollar bill in door handle.

The newest 100 bills are series 2009 bills and they have many different security features. A post currently circulating via social media warns that criminals are using 100 bills laced with a powerful chemical as a means of debilitating and kidnapping victims. Older bills are being phased out of circulation to prevent counterfeiters from fooling people. The rumor posted by a user in revere massachusetts and shared more than 8 000 times says the apparent gift is a new.

Summary of the erumor. 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. 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. 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.

The driver exits the car with the door open. 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. 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.

Cities appear to be a hoax police say. A post copied and pasted thousands of times on facebook says sex traffickers are leaving 100 bills laced with a debilitating substance on shoppers cars outside boston in an effort to lure unsuspecting victims. The united states one hundred dollar bill 100 is a denomination of united states currency the first united states note with this value was issued in 1862 and the federal reserve note version was launched in 1914 alongside other denominations. Versions shared with ctv news vancouver appear to suggest.

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. Kidnappers use laced 100 bills to knock out victims fiction. Check the date on the bill. Nevertheless older bills are still legal tender so if you get one you shouldn t automatically assume it is fake.

Statesman inventor diplomat and american founding father benjamin franklin has been featured on the obverse of the bill since 1914. Local police said this did not happen.