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Cameroon fraudsters fool Muscovites “Harry Potter” style
Published: 14 October, 2010, 21:14
TAGS: Crime, Religion, Russia, Thrills&Spills, Prime Time Russia
Two citizens of Cameroon have been arrested for selling "magic potions" to credulous Muscovites.
The “magicians” promised their clients that the potion could triple their money, and offered them a demonstration.
After covering the money in a mix of baby powder, iodine and Coca Cola – the "magic potion" – they secretly swapped it with three times as much cash.
Convinced betters returned with larger sums of money, which the fraudsters took and vanished.
The money-magicians claimed they were just playing a traditional Cameroon joke on their victims, but police have not fallen under that spell.
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