Versions shared with ctv news vancouver appear to suggest.
Hundred dollar bill in door handle.
This is a hoax.
Some of the most popular versions of this warning vaguely attribute the alleged location of the crime as northgate.
Vancouver posts circulating on social media about 100 bills and zip ties in canadian and u s.
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.
Check the date on the bill.
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.
This claim is false.
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.
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.
Nevertheless older bills are still legal tender so if you get one you shouldn t automatically assume it is fake.
Local police departments across canada and a mall manager told afp this did not happen.
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.
Cities appear to be a hoax police say.
The driver exits the car with the door open.
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.
The newest 100 bills are series 2009 bills and they have many different security features.
Older bills are being phased out of circulation to prevent counterfeiters from fooling people.
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.
Summary of the erumor.
Statesman inventor diplomat and american founding father benjamin franklin has been featured on the obverse of the bill since 1914.
Kidnappers use laced 100 bills to knock out victims fiction.
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.