Friday, June 30, 2006

Today's fakes: you're happy enough

Australian authorities arrested three men for attempting to smuggle millions of Ecstasy hits into the country. The drugs were concealed as follows: vacuum-packed in plastic, then put into containers of blue dye which were shipped inside a shipping container. When customers agents discovered the drugs, they substituted fakes -- into blue dye, right? I wouldn't like that job -- and then tracked the shipment as it went on its way.

In Chicago, men posing as suburban police officers broke into a home, collected car keys from the residents, and drove off in their trucks.

And in Milwaukee, two men were arrested this week in a scheme that involved putting fake bar codes onto price tags for electronics, buying the gizmos at the low prices that showed up on the checkout scanner, and then reselling them on eBay. 23-year-old twin brothers carried out the scheme for three months before being caught.

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