Snopes Dollar Bill In Door Handle

On 21 april 2016 facebook user kim fleming posted an image of a rubber band stretched over a door latch handle along with a message warning people about a new method of employing rubber bands.

Snopes dollar bill in door handle.

It s the more realistic fakes that are harder to spot. She s a midwest gal who. By olivia romero. Cities appear to be a hoax police say.

On thursday a post began circulating on twitter instagram whatsapp and facebook. She pulls a rubber band over a door handle the reason is pure genius. 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. Versions shared with ctv news vancouver appear to suggest.

From the montauk monster to fairy sightings in england outlandish internet hoaxes have been quickly and easily debunked. 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. Vancouver posts circulating on social media about 100 bills and zip ties in canadian and u s. 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.

Local police departments across canada and a mall manager told afp this did not happen. Some of the most popular versions of this warning vaguely attribute the alleged location of the crime as northgate. 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. 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.