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You may get a phone call at home from a police impostor claiming to be conducting an investigation of counterfeit money. You're asked to withdraw cash and meet the person at your house or elsewhere so the money can be "inspected" for bogus bills. Laugh if you will, but Dallas police recently arrested a scammer who, posing as a detective, managed to collect $100,000 this way from a dozen seniors. Reality: "That is something a police agency would not do," says Dallas police official Willemina Edwards. "We don't need your money to investigate a counterfeit crime ring."
[A variation of this scam was recently tried on a Tantallon neighbor.]
