Vancouver posts circulating on social media about 100 bills and zip ties in canadian and u s.
100 dollar bill door handle.
On thursday a post began circulating on twitter instagram whatsapp and facebook.
Versions shared with ctv news vancouver appear to suggest.
Females watch this i thought it was a joke.
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.
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.
This is a hoax.
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.
Kidnappers use laced 100 bills to knock out victims fiction.
This claim is false.
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.
Summary of the erumor.
The rumor posted by a user in revere massachusetts and shared more than 8 000 times says the apparent gift is a new.
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.
Local police said this did not happen.
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.
Cities appear to be a hoax police say.
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.
The rumors going around are people are putting 100 on your car with chemical to make you pass out so they can kidnap you hurt you and take your car.
Some of the most popular versions of this warning vaguely attribute the alleged location of the crime as northgate.