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One born every minute

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From: the.happy.hippy.nntp@ntlworld.invalid (The Happy Hippy)
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Subject: One born every minute
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 20:29:03 +0000
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by: The Happy Hippy - Tue, 27 Feb 2024 20:29 UTC

https://www.rferl.org/a/macedonia-trump-debit-cards-scam/32836128.html

Last September, 86-year-old Ann Bratton thought she'd stumbled onto the investment of a lifetime.

An ad on one of the encrypted Telegram app channels the Nashville-area retiree had joined was offering debit-like "Trump cards" featuring the billionaire U.S. ex-president's image, each supposedly preloaded with $200,000.

After years of forking out tens of thousands of dollars on souvenir banknotes, coins, and other Trump memorabilia, she calculated that she could quickly and easily turn a $6,000 investment into a $4 million nest egg.

The ATM "just shot the card right back out, you know."

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She can think herself lucky that at least she wasn't just another stupid gullible Trump-loving American suckered by Trump.

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One born every minute	The Happy Hippy