We actually brought in an expert in fraud detection
who spent 22 years in the secret service.
His name is Ron Williams.
He also spent two years running
the West African task force,
where they investigated financial fraud overseas.
Now Ron you're familiar with these scams, right?
Absolutely.
So tell us what you thinks going on here
and how this works.
This is called a black money scam.
In this instance she met a guy named Jeffrey Daniels.
I would assume he spoke with an accent?
He was from a foreign country, yes.
They have genuine hundred dollar bills
that they put glue on.
It's Elmer's glue,
and then they treat it with iodine.
Then they get the victim to see this bill,
and it's black, it's dark.
In this case he coated it probably with flour.
No, he didn't coat them,
he put a white, like a white powder in the water.
The bill though--
He coated, it looked like iodine,
but it wasn't iodine, it was some solution
you could get over in France.
But the Bill was coated before.
He showed you a coated bill.
Then he washes it,
and it's usually with vitamin C and water.
That's the combination.
That's the "solution" that costs so much.
So he takes that,
washes it and it's actually a hundred dollar bill,
to convince you that the other stack
is also hundred dollar bills that are coated with white.
Did he use a dryer on it?
Yes afterward.
He took one from his stack here.
Three of them from the stack.
He used slight of hand.
He already had, he already knew
which ones he was gonna select.
They were actually,
they were actually $100 bills.
Then he tells you those others are also,
that are coated, are $100 bills.
They're not.
That's white paper, that's all that is.
He got lazy, this scammer got lazy.
Does that feel like a $100 bill?
No, that's paper.
That is totally paper.
Your genuine money is made
in Crane Paper mill in Dalton, Massachusetts.
It's 75% cotton, 25% linen.
It's almost like a cloth.
This is just paper.
Actually the bill when it was washed
looked just like this right here.
Do you notice it's not even the same size
as the $100 bill?
No.
You do know, you're looking at it.
I see.
Don't tell me you don't know, you have eyes.
You're looking at it.
It's not the same size as a $100 bill.
Is all our money the same size?
I don't know.
(laughing)
All your genuine currency
is the same size, same size.
Would this be a red flag?
That would be a real red flag, yes.
All right.
I don't know what to tell you.
Just maybe talk to someone that brought this over here.
Maybe talk to Dr. Frank.
Here's a photo of Dr. Frank Bills,
he's an associate of the general.
And so we checked into Dr. Frank Bills,
which I thought was kind
of ironic that his name was Bills.
(audience laughing)
And it's Dr. Frank Bills.
He has a cell phone that's linked
to a smart phone app that's called Text Now,
which is a free service.
The app allows users to access the internet
for texting and voice calls world wide.
That photo has been jacked,
and used, and it shows up on many, many different websites.
So we started looking for Frank Bills.
And here's a summary of what we found
about this associate,
because he's supposedly a
United Nations Diplomatic Delivery Service, right?
Right.
He brought it over here from Afghanistan.
But he works for the United Nations
Diplomatic Delivery Service.
That's what he said.
Oh really?
I have no idea.
I just know he, he was the one
that brought the luggage over here.
Yeah.
And his representation was
that he worked for the United Nations Diplomatic Service.
However, that doesn't exist.
There's no such thing as United Nations Diplomatic Service.
He had a registration number for all
of this luggage and stuff that he was gonna,
that registration number does not exist.