This is a hoax.
One hundred dollar door handle snopes.
Kidnappers use laced 100 bills to knock out victims fiction.
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.
Cities appear to be a hoax police say.
In this case it is drug laced 100 bills left on car door handles that incapacitate unwary female motorists returning to their cars for the purposes of fuelling the sex trafficking industry according to the breathless warnings.
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.
Local police departments across canada and a mall manager told afp this did not happen.
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.
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.
Some of the most popular versions of this warning vaguely attribute the alleged location of the crime as northgate mall.
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.
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.
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.
Summary of the erumor.
Posts circulating on social media about 100 bills and zip ties in canadian and u s.
Coins in car door theft warning there has been no rash of car or property thefts due to nickels or pennies jammed in door handles and car experts say that warnings about them are implausible.
