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Q. Sir, I'm also patient of the same disease of black $, also I read question and answers of peoples on the same issues on this forum but you did not give answer of one question that if somebody has their original dollar so how they can clean their black$ ? What is solution? Hope you will answer my question.
Best Regards
Rashid
- Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
January 25, 2015
January 2015
A. Hello cousin Rashid. We DID give the solution to clean real blackened money repeatedly: crushed vitamin C tablets. You'll see the same on youtube where the scammers who were caught explain how they darken a couple of real bank notes and how they clean them.
But then people say "Vitamin C tablets aren't working, so what should I try instead?". And the answer -- which they don't want to hear -- is "Nothing, because although you think you have your original money, you don't ... sorry, you have black construction paper or the black output of a xerox machine or other worthless black paper, and there is no way in the world to turn it into a banknote".
These victims clutch at straws; to toss them a straw like "try this, try that" when we know it can't work would be cruel.
Regards,
Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
We have since discovered that 'Black money' is a scam and a crime! So if you contact me privately it will be immediately reported to the authorities.
A. Hi there, thanks for your eye opening column for many of us victims of the dollar/euro scams. I have been keeping this dollar notes that I got from an Indian friend for 3 years. Now, please follow me carefully. These notes are not black, they actually look like the real dollar but the colour and texture isn't quite there yet. Sometime back these notes were black and I personally saw them transform to what they are now. I have been searching for the right chemical combination to finish the work but over and over again I have been conned in so many different scams from the machine (to which I lost $35,000, money that was supposed to buy some gas enough to clean $3 million) to chemicals and finally to the scam whereby they tell you to come with original bills that are put in between the unprocessed ones to give them texture. Readers, I want to convince you that no matter how you think you're on the lookout for anything fishy, at some point they ask you to go bring something that they might use, something like water, a basin, tissue, foil paper or anything. That's the moment they switch your real money with some fakes they came with wrapped up in exactly the same way they would be doing in front of you. I have met all sorts of crooks some even work for the De la Rue (the company usually contracted by governments to make currency but I tell you please let mine be your experience too. Only a fool doesn't learn from other people's experiences. All of these people claiming that they can do the magic for you are just thieves. Please let's all learn and do clean businesses to better our lives. Am picking my pieces and trying to make up for the huge losses I made and debts I incurred.
Lorna M [last name deleted for privacy by Editor]- Nairobi Kenya, East Africa
January 28, 2015
January 2015
Hi Lorna. Yes, as we've said repeatedly, the scammers will keep changing some little detail to try to convince people that their pile of worthless paper is different. For example, some of the bills may be xeroxs of bank notes to try to tease you that you got some of the blackening off. But you are holding black paper or xeroxs, not banknotes.
Regards,
Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
We have since discovered that 'Black money' is a scam and a crime! So if you contact me privately it will be immediately reported to the authorities.
February 2, 2015
Hi,
I am holding some black defaced currency; many technicians came and did the job only to clean 2 at a time and started to extract more and more money leaving me begging on the street. I have tested them and found to be original. Now from your replies to people I understand we can wash it with crushed Vitamin C tablets. Please tell me the process so that I can try and I am sure the results should be positive as I have the original defaced money.
Question: Should crushed vitamin C tablets be put in water to dissolve and then use one note to just keep for a while and remove.
Please help me with the process, I am desperate.
- Bangalore,Karnataka, India
A. Hi Nish. I don't enjoy giving the same unhappy response to person after person, week after week, year after year -- but it may help dissuade the next victim.
WAKE UP! You don't have your original money and you don't have defaced currency, you have black trash paper. It makes absolutely no difference what chemicals you apply or how, you can't turn black scrap paper into money. Each time the scammers come, they bring a couple of real blackened bills and fool you that the couple of real bills they brought came from your worthless pile of black paper.
Regards,
Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
February 2015
We have since discovered that 'Black money' is a scam and a crime! So if you contact me privately it will be immediately reported to the authorities.
A. Hi Nisha,
What you can do ... take all notes and put it in normal water and see ... good notes will remain same and fake papers will become pulp.
Try this then you will start believing this thread of conversations.
Ramesh
- UAE,Emirates
February 5, 2015
A. Photographic film wrapper papers are cut to currency sizes. They are very rough; if you check weight and US dollar currency weighs one gram each. This itself will tell you not to bother any further.
Hasmukh Vikani- Rajkot, India
April 5, 2015
Can we have the contact details of the victims to organise and connect to capture the scammers along with the support of the police.
mahuboob jailani- Abudhabi,UAE
November 20, 2015
Hi cousin mahuboob. I'm unfamiliar with the UAE, but here in the US we strongly discourage vigilante justice, and leave law enforcement to sworn officers. Plus, all the victims who want to contact the police and get organized know how to do it. The most likely outcome of revealing contact info would just be for the victims, who have high-credulity personalities*, to allow themselves to be victimized yet again.
* - My friend Tom P. noted that one reason scammers use outrageous stories, often full of misspellings -- which not one person in a hundred would believe -- is because it's a great "filter", so the scammers don't waste any time with the other 99, and only spend their efforts on people who will believe almost anything :-)
Regards,
Ted Mooney, P.E. RET
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
November 2015
We have since discovered that 'Black money' is a scam and a crime! So if you contact me privately it will be immediately reported to the authorities.
November 23, 2015
Dear sir
I have contacted the United Nations chemical Laboratory Department, Delhi for quotation for ssd chemical for cleaning Black currency [pounds]. They have informed me Rs.75,000/-[INR] for company registration fee only, and chemical cost [68000 GBP] plus any other whatever charges will be paid after cleaning of currency by their email letter.
After paying up above payment, they have informed me another Rs.250000/- INR to be paid for NRCC Certificate. However, I have paid up the same. But, now they have informed to pay Rs.1000000/-INR for Anti terrorism certificate and custom duty, which I cannot afford until my black currency is cleaned and they did not inform about this payment earlier. As per their information received Nobody or any companies, Diplomats and chemical laboratories have authorized for supply of ssd chemicals and cleaning the black currency except United States and United Kingdom government and US & UK Government give authorization to United Nations Chemical Laboratory only for supply of ssd chemical for cleaning of black currency [GBP].
Now They have complaint against me for recovery of 68000/-GBP, Which, I have not received any documents regarding the same, Payment receipts, etc. to date.
Also they have not provided their official Banker details for depositing the cash payment till.
Please advise me what to do. Can I complain against them to FBI/Interpol/CBI?
Regards
- Vadodara, Gujarat India
November 2015
Hi Arvind. You apparently still believe in this magic nonsense, and are complaining that someone is not delivering the magic nonsense as expected and promised. Until you accept that the whole thing is nonsense and there is no real money in that stack of black paper, nobody can help you. FBI and Interpol don't care that still another gullible person has been scammed, since they have lists of thousands, but your local police might. Sorry.
Regards,
Ted Mooney, P.E. RET
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
We have since discovered that 'Black money' is a scam and a crime! So if you contact me privately it will be immediately reported to the authorities.
Q. Hello ...
I read all the comments on this thread, and thanks for everyone who tried to explain the trick. So now I know I have my real money because I marked it, and the man is arrested now, so what I need now is to clean my money from whatever is on it, I know it's crushed vitamin c with water but what kind of vitamin c?
Thanks
- turkey , istanbul , fatih
December 7, 2015
A. I give up :-(
But if you keep asking, someone will surely tell you that vitamin C won't do it and you need expensive Tebi-matonic, Vectrol Paste or S.S.D. solution -- and you will probably be foolish enough to buy it. Your family has my sympathy.
Ted Mooney, P.E. RET
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
December 2015
We have since discovered that 'Black money' is a scam and a crime! So if you contact me privately it will be immediately reported to the authorities.
January 12, 2016
Hi
I receive below mentioned email every month, please share the below mail as an example so readers of your site are not cheated and become victim for such fraud people.
Since I got information about his death I have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release it unless somebody applies for it as the next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines, but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him in the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want the money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
Am contacting you because our deceased customer is a foreigner and a Burkinabe can not stand as a next of kin to foreign customer. The banking guidelines stipulate that the fund should be transferred into the bank treasury after (15) years if nobody is coming for the claim.
I have agreed that 40% of this money will be for you as foreign partner in respect to the provision of your account for the transfer, 2% will be set aside for expenses that might occurred during the business and 58% would be for me, after which I shall visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage as indicated.
Please I would like you to keep this transaction confidential and as a top secret as you may wish to know that I am a bank official.
Yours sincerely,
Mr. Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Anna Lagardo
- Belgaum, India
Q. Dear sir thanks for your lovely topic. I got same black shit in UAE but I don't know is this black paper released by USA government? Because I want know if this game is start by USA government but why?
Majid jaan- uae dubai
January 25, 2016
A. Hi cousin Majid. The scammers will try to enflame people's emotions & prejudices, because emotionality and prejudice can distract people from careful reasoned thinking, but no government anywhere is involved in this scam.
I am very tired of, almost daily, responding to crying readers who continue to insist "Yes, everyone else's blackened currency is fake, but MY blackened currency is real, I was watching it so carefully, so help me remove the blackening".
It's simply ridiculous that people continue to waste their lives on this.
Regards,
Ted Mooney, P.E. RET
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
January 2016
We have since discovered that 'Black money' is a scam and a crime! So if you contact me privately it will be immediately reported to the authorities.
Certain doubts on the changing of black dollar
Q. I am in Saudi Arabia. Certain days before I had to deal with the black money. The technician came and illustrated the way to change the money, I saw the method of doing and the money was usable ... but during the process he used a 500 Saudi Riyal from me with the activation powder which was kept folded in an aluminium foil, and that powder was used for changing 5 black moneys of 100 USD with the chemical. I want to know is there any need for the 500 saudi Riyal for cleaning?
Daniel Gatzbusiness man who takes money from others for investment - Indian
September 8, 2018
Hi Daniel. Please don't involve any of that 'money from others for investment' in this scam or you'll go to jail. 'Black dollars' is a complete scam, and the 'technician' will disappear with your money, leaving you with a box of black paper that never was dollars or riyals and never will be.
What he does is he blackens a few pieces of real money with an easily removable dye, and then removes that dye in front of you. The trick is in using sleight of hand to fool you into believing that a big box of black paper is the same stuff as the few real bills he removes the dye from. But, as Mark Twain said, "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled", so you probably won't believe me :-(
Regards,
Ted Mooney, P.E. RET
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
September 2018
We have since discovered that 'Black money' is a scam and a crime! So if you contact me privately it will be immediately reported to the authorities.
October 18, 2018
Very interesting thread, I'm actually right in the middle of this Black-money "scam" or opportunity! The approach started on linkedin. A respectable gentleman from Zambia, who already added +500 contacts in Oman many whom I know (all created within 5 days!). He starts off by saying he wants to invest in Oman and needs an advisor. He's targeted me because I am a businessman and I would not refuse an offer to direct him to Real Estate projects.
He says he was in Oman, but returned home and offers to fly his assistant to meet me. I meet his assistant and then a diplomat flies soon after bringing all $5 million in cash for investment.
Then they pull the black-money scam using SSD chemical or whatever, a white chemical to remove the blackness. And immediately after goes to the money exchange to change it to our local currency.
I act amazed and fascinated. I now need to organize a place for them to bring all $5 million blackened cash to change it. All I need to provide is the place, a big pot and that's it. 24 hours and the deal is done! They leave all the $5 million with me to invest in real-estate.
Simple....
The main problem I will face is changing $5 million dollar worth of bills to our local currency to invest. So they will give me 6 month to do that.
What's my next step?
regards
- Muscat, Oman
A. Hi Cal. Please extend my sympathies to your family if you continue. The heartache you would cause them is a terrible thing. Not only being scammed out of your money, but possibly also talked into committing the crime of 'money laundering'.
Regards,
Ted Mooney, P.E. RET
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
October 2018
We have since discovered that 'Black money' is a scam and a crime! So if you contact me privately it will be immediately reported to the authorities.
! Hi Ted,
Like I said, nice thread. You're absolutely right, I'd lose my family, business and life essential going that route. I'm not mad. It's hard work earning money and nothing in life comes for free.
My decision was to just cut my self off from the group. Money Laundering is not my thing.
Regards
Cal H
- Muscat, Oman
October 19, 2018
October 2018
Hi. Happy to hear that, Cal. I wasn't quite sure which way it was going to go :-)
Regards,
Ted Mooney, P.E. RET
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
We have since discovered that 'Black money' is a scam and a crime! So if you contact me privately it will be immediately reported to the authorities.
A. Hello this black money Scam has been going on for a long time . I was exposed to it in 1975 in South Africa . Ozone water will turn black ink clear. I have had a hobby called Hydro - Metallurgy for about 60 years I extract metals out of solution. I have never been bored in my life . All you have to do is make some Ozone Water and wash the black notes with this. You can buy a small Ozone water maker on Amazon.com for about $65.00 and you are in business selling. Good luck.
Johan Loots- Palm Springs, California, USA.
October 20, 2018
A. Hi Johan. It may be true that ozone water will remove the iodine [affil links] or black ink as quickly and easily as oxygen bleach or vitamin C tablets, but neither an ozone generator nor anything else can ever turn the plain black paper which people are holding into bank notes. The scammers already removed the blackening from the one or two actual bank notes, and left with all of the victim's money, leaving them only black construction paper, film wrappers, or xerox paper
Please see the short video on this thread to understand the situation. Thanks.
Regards,
Ted Mooney, P.E. RET
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
October 2018
We have since discovered that 'Black money' is a scam and a crime! So if you contact me privately it will be immediately reported to the authorities.
Q. Hi sir
Do real black dollars exist or not?
If real black note exist, why?
For what is that and what is solution for real black dollars.
Study - Kabul afghanistan
February 9, 2019
A. Hi Shah. The whole thing is a scam from start to finish.
Regards,
Ted Mooney, P.E. RET
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
February 2019
We have since discovered that 'Black money' is a scam and a crime! So if you contact me privately it will be immediately reported to the authorities.
Q. I've read the threads and messages and I'm with you 100% but now these scammers are using a new story which I haven't seen any response to it.
They are coming in with bags filled with what seems dollars and has a UN stamp which needs to be cleaned with a powder that extracts the mercury from another currency and then used to clean the stamp off!
Creativity in scamming people.
- Kuwait, Kuwait
March 30, 2019
Q. Hi Madam,
Do real black dollars exist or not?
If real black note exist, why was currency blacked?
I have many black notes left behind by my uncle as every time I tried to clean by sum agent they try to fool asking for money for chemical and some activation powder.
My uncle says few years ago they have started cleaning notes as they cleaned 25 dollars by some agent and then the agent convincing my uncle that he needs more chemical to clean which he needs to buy as he promised and uncle and his friend and took that 25 notes and till now he never returned back.
Can you help me as I'm confused?
hospitality pvt limited - Goa india
July 24, 2019
July 2019
A. Hi Nikhil. No government or army or smuggler or anyone else blackens banknotes. It's a silly story; whatever government you dislike the most and distrust the most, that's who the scammers will tell you did the blackening :-)
The whole thing is very simple. The scammers cut up film containers, or black construction paper, or the black output from a xerox machine into the shape of bank notes and fill up a brief case with that garbage. And they claim it's real money that has been blackened, telling wild tales about smuggling and government plots or whatever. But to fool you that the briefcase has that 'blackened money', they take one or two real banknotes, and put iodine and elmers glue on them which is easily washed off. Then they try to fool you that all the garbage in the briefcase is similar blackened bank notes and the blackening can be washed off.
No matter what chemicals you try, you obviously can never change that brief case full of garbage into bank notes. So they come back with one or two more real bank notes which they have put iodine and glue on, pretend they've added some secret chemical, and wash the iodine off those one or two real bank notes again and sell you the "magic chemical". But of course they need your real money to "buy" the magic chemical. They leave with your real money and you stay stuck with their black construction paper.
Regards,
Ted Mooney, P.E. RET
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
We have since discovered that 'Black money' is a scam and a crime! So if you contact me privately it will be immediately reported to the authorities.
Ed. note Sept. 28, 2019: Two more readers weighed in today who also are convinced they have a briefcase of real banknotes -- one feels his situation is different because the "money" is white; the other because the "money" is green. It's all so sad.
December 12, 2019
I'm coming back to this black shit experience after a decade.They say this black money scam dates back centuries and it's a known classic scam that just appears every other generation. But guess what, I didn't get these details out of the blue. They come at cost of almost $65000 that I was scammed out of back in 2007...
The dudes show us the magic by cleverly cleaning some selected Blackened notes out of a stack of black papers. Once you are owned they start the game, in the process of mixing your real money piled over each other in between fake papers to the size of the dollars in order to get texture or doubled. They will change the whole wrapped packet of your money with a similar packet in any moment they get a chance which they already brought with them. You are left with black paper and told they will arrive with chemical to wash, which eventually never happens.
In my situation there was a work around where I could dupe another scammer to get at least some money back but my partner was scared.
Spread the word - Dubai
I would like everyone to know this scam caused many problems in my life. I met a man who claimed he wanted to be my partner and help double my money. I met him in a nice hotel states away from were I'm from and started so called business. He asked me for a real hundred dollar bill which he coated with powder and put between two white notes covered with powder. Wrapped them in foil had me sit on them for pressure for a minute then placed them in container and poured liquid on them which three hundred dollar bills emerged. Only thing is mine had a blue stripe the other two had a green stripe.he He explained to me that the reason the two bills had a green stripe is because he needed a machine to keep the bills at a regular temperature. So basically he asked me for 20 grand which we could turn into 60 grand: I keep my 20 plus make 20. I agreed putting every dollar I owned and borrowed to make this deal. I brought the twenty to hotel were we both sat and did same process with all money as we did with three bills earlier with white powder substance and sandwiched them together making a stack of my bills and so called white non finished ones.
We wrapped them in foil and he evidently spilled liquid in which the carpet was white so he went into bathroom asking me to assist which I stupidly did which gave him time to switch original stack with an already put together one. He allowed me to go back to my hotel room with the stack wrapped and all and promised to meet me there with chemicals to clean bills in which ... he never came. He called me hours later from a number which was a jail stating he was arrested. I don't know how he did that trick with the phone but I know I'm out of my money and stuck with a stack of black bills. Losing trusted friends and all my money as end result.
"Fairfield, Connecticut" [probably a fictitious address]
December 23, 2019
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