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Two men, a Syrian, 38, and a Cameroonian, 33, were yesterday remanded in custody for seven days by Larnaca District Court in connection to a money scam.

Their relation to two separate incidents is being investigated, police spokesman Michalis Katsounotos said.

In those cases, scammers would start with a demonstration of their ‘powers’.

“Say they had a ten euro bill. They would wrap it up, do their hocus pocus and with a sleight of hand they would then produce €50,” Katsounotos said.

“Some naive people actually believed that these scammers could transform money,” he added.

One incident took place in Paphos, where one person parted with €15,000, expecting to get much more in return when his money would magically increase in number and value.

The unfortunate Paphos resident told the police how he saw his money wrapped first in aluminium foil and then in a towel.

The scammers then placed the bundle under a rock and told the man it would take 24 hours for the magic to work.

That was the last time he saw any of it.

Two others in Nicosia were also equally unlucky when they parted with a total of €33,000 which instead of multiplying disappeared along with the ‘magicians’. http://www.cyprus-mail.com/crime/mul...-warn/20110608

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Well deserved, anyone who's dumb enough to fall for something like this should be removed from the gene pool. Honestly, I don't even...

[Vulkanevsel]

Well deserved, anyone who's dumb enough to fall for something like this should be removed from the gene pool. Honestly, I don't even...

And just south in Africa, there are groups that advocate the slaying/cannibalism of albino people for use in magic... and raping virgins to cure yourself of AIDS.

Hell, even landed on a page (via an entirely different search) today for a guy advocating garlic and bhut jolokia pepper sandwiches to cure Stage 4 cancer!

As long as there are suckers on this earth, there'll always be plenty of people to take their money...

[arriplify]

"a fool and his money are soon parted"