Cleaning Blackened Banknotes

A. Probably nobody can help you Bhaveen because, as Mark Twain said, it's easier to fool people than to convince them that they've been fooled. So even though you've seen all the evidence that there is no such chemical, that it's all a scam, you refuse to believe it.
Still, your posting will hopefully help convince someone else that it's a scam before they get involved.

Sympathy & Regards,

A. Hi James. If you don't realize by now that it's a scam, with Google available to show you the thousands of arrests around the world, the thousands of people who lost their life savings, the endless explanations of how the scam is done on youtube and on television, you never will :-(

Sorry, Regards,

A. Hi, Stiffin. Sometimes I have to question the sincerity of such questions because "the black money scam" has been dealt with exhaustively on this site for more than 10 years, on many other websites, in court systems around the world, on the CBS program "60 Minutes" multiple times, on the NBC program "Dateline", and on youtube a hundred times.

But to repeat yet again: the heart of the scam involves coating a few pieces of real money with iodine [affil links] and Vaseline or Elmer's glue, and removing the blackening with oxygen bleach or crushed Vitamin C tablets, while convincing you that large piles of worthless black paper are the same blackened banknotes. They're not. They have run off with your real money and left you with nothing but black paper.

The steps involved are:

1). Find gullible people as victims;
2). Discover their prejudices, then inflame their prejudices with stories of the UN or the CIA or Iraq officials or some other group coating trunkfuls of money with secret blackening;
3). Fill trunks with cut up black construction paper or the black output of a Xerox machine, or something else black.
4). Produce by sleight of hand a few pieces of real money, which has been coated with iodine and Elmer's glue, pretending they are representative of the contents of the trunk;
5). Clean these few pieces of real money with the crushed Vitamin C tablets.
6). Tell the victims that the vitamin C tablets are a precious secret chemical designed to remove the secret defacing chemical;
7). Interrupt the cleaning by running out of solution or 'accidentally' knocking the bottle to the floor;
8). Ask for vast sums for this "secret cleaning fluid", when in fact the trunk is full of construction paper not iodine-stained money, and no chemicals can possibly turn construction paper into bank notes.

It's funny that with these trunkfuls of blackened money, they needed your money. Now you can tell me that the Vitamin C tablets aren't cleaning your "blackened currency" and we can continue to despair for humanity :-)

Regards,

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Ed. note: Well you certainly said just exactly what we predicted, Okis. And we despair as you start your search for a chemical that can magically turn a stack of worthless construction paper, that never was bank notes, into bank notes.

A. Hi, Kennedy.

Sorry, VB, but you have deliberately completely misunderstood this thread! Thousands of pages of exposés, court cases and warnings have been printed. At least 3 television programs have focused on it, hundreds of youtube videos. And after I've explained the scam in detail a dozen times myself, the foolishness of people exhausts my patience :-)

Good luck in your other endeavors although I can only wish you bad luck in this one. Neither vitamin C nor anything else can ever turn black paper that never was banknotes into banknotes.

Regards,

Hi, Yasser.

The whole idea of this scam is to use sleight of hand to convince you that the useless black paper that you are now holding is blackened money. Good luck, but there is no real money in the package. They left with your money in their possession; they switched it and left you with worthless black paper. Sorry, but the sooner you realize it, the sooner you can stop being scammed.

Regards,

That's the thing, folks.

No matter that this scam has been exposed ten thousand times, and people read of the ten thousand victims who are holding worthless suitcases full of construction paper, they remain convinced that their suitcase is full of real money.

Or the scammers read the exposés themselves, change one insignificant detail, like inventing this "halfway" aluminum color, and there is a whole new group of people anxious to be scammed.

Please search youtube for "black money" and you'll see dozens of examples of these suitcases; you'll see scammers who were caught and who explain it all step by step; you'll see the crying people who left their family penniless by believing this nonsense.

Regards,

... as I just finished saying ...

People will remain firmly convinced that their suitcase full of worthless black construction paper is actually defaced currency, and they just have to find the right cleaning agent. And nothing will dissuade them. So they will be scammed again ... and again ... and again. Sorry for your troubles, Sudheesh, but thank you for proving my point.

Regards,

Hi Chanda.

Please stop telling yourself the same tired story that no magician can trick you. Thousands upon thousands of people keep telling themselves that they still have the real blackened money rather than worthless paper, and every single one of them is wrong and is squandering the opportunity for the authorities to apprehend the scammers. If they are still contacting you, alert the authorities while they can still be apprehended.

Regards,

Hi cousin Pawan. Apparently you don't understand that the "technicians" are part of the scam.

It is one thing to pay a couple of dollars to go to a show for amusement, and watch a magician astound you, puling a rabbit out of a hat or sawing his assistant in half. But to bet your life savings that a magician won't be able to trick you is absolute, deliberate, unforgivable stupidity :-(

The only thing that is for certain is that you are not finished being cheated yet -- because you insist on betting your money against professionals who earn their living by tricking amateurs like you who stubbornly insist that they can't be tricked. Geez I feel sorry for your family :-(

Regards,

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"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." -- Mark Twain

Hi. It's quite sad that someone would steal from a missionary for poor children, but that's what is going on. This is the cleverest scam ever because they can "give" you this "money" (actually just worthless black paper) and then get money from you for the "magic cleaning solution" again and again. Each time giving you back in real money much less than you give them for the cleaning solution, and pocketing the profits.

Regards,

Hi. Now that the technician has been arrested is the time for you to go to the police and make sure he stays in jail for a long time, along with anyone else involved. Some day you will realize the huge favor the police did for you.

Do you honestly think that this pile of worthless black paper that never was dollars can somehow be turned into dollars despite the fact that you've been told otherwise by knowledgable people a thousand times, and despite the fact that the criminals have confessed countless times and told you exactly how the trick is done? Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!

Regards,

Sorry Neel. The problem is you don't have your original dollars, the scammers have them. You have construction paper. All you can do is hope that the authorities can catch the scammers and get some small part of your money back, but it sounds unlikely. Sorry.

Regards,

A. Here we go again ... yet another person who claims that no magician can fool them.

I'm not trying to be mean, Neel, I'm just asking you a second time to focus on how to help the authorities quickly locate the scammers rather than being distracted with this false hope that you still have your money. You do not! Regards,

A. Hi. "It's easier to fool people than convince them that they have been fooled". Sorry, you do NOT have your original bills.

Regards,

Hi. We deleted your last name because $133,000 is enough to attract a whole 'nother round of scammers who will promise the moon: unblacken the paper, intercept the original scammers, get your money back through a secret government recovery program, or whatever.

If you go to a magic show you'll see that the magician has dozens of tricks, not just a single trick. We'll probably never know exactly how they stole your attention while so convincingly letting you believe that your money never left your sight. But if we did, all it would accomplish is to convince victims that if they watch for this one trick they won't be fooled; and that would be a disservice to them.

On the positive side, you've accepted it and can move on. Others remain firmly convinced that the pile of construction paper or black output from a xerox machine that they are holding is their original banknotes, even though there might have been a chance to catch the scammers if only they had stopped insisting they are too smart to be tricked.

Regards,

Hi, I think the hardest thing to accept for all of us who were scammed is the fact that we were with our money the whole time. When you think you're in control but you're clearly not. What I did to my family was unforgivable. The money wasn't even mine, I borrowed it. Maybe god chose to give me a lesson in my life to appreciate what I once had. I'm not going to say it's not hard to move on. I've lost an amount of money that will take a lifetime to get back. But more importantly than money it was living with being a fool and how naive I must have been. I wish I could have been more smart, but I think the thought of getting a few pounds ahead was the reason you lost my mind.

So sorry to hear your story, but it just might help someone else not make the mistake. So you're doing a service.

Regards,