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.
One hundred dollar door handle snopes.
Cities appear to be a hoax police say.
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.
On thursday a post began circulating on twitter instagram whatsapp and facebook.
Local police departments across canada and a mall manager told afp this did not happen.
Kidnappers use laced 100 bills to knock out victims fiction.
According to a post copied and pasted thousands of times on facebook sex traffickers are leaving 100 bills laced with a debilitating agent on door handles of cars parked near malls in order to abduct incapacitated shoppers.
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.
Wrapped with a red ribbon and attached to her car door handle.
Posts circulating on social media about 100 bills and zip ties in canadian and u s.
A post currently circulating via social media warns that criminals are using 100 bills laced with a powerful chemical as a means of debilitating and kidnapping victims.
This is a hoax.
Some of the most popular versions of this warning vaguely attribute the alleged location of the crime as northgate mall.
The department of homeland security says human trafficking in which people are forced into labor or sex is a multi billion dollar industry according to time with between 18 000 and.
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.
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.