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.
Snopes dollar bill in door handle.
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.
Social media users are warning women to be careful if they discover zip ties looped around the door handles of their cars and the cars parked nearby.
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.
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.
She pulls a rubber band over a door handle the reason is pure genius.
From the montauk monster to fairy sightings in england outlandish internet hoaxes have been quickly and easily debunked.
On 21 april 2016 facebook user kim fleming posted an image of a rubber band stretched over a door latch handle along with a message warning people about a new method of employing rubber bands.
Some of the most popular versions of this warning vaguely attribute the alleged location of the crime as northgate.
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.
On thursday a post began circulating on twitter instagram whatsapp and facebook.
Posts about 100 bills.
Versions shared with ctv news vancouver appear to suggest.
It s the more realistic fakes that are harder to spot.
By olivia romero.
Vancouver posts circulating on social media about 100 bills and zip ties in canadian and u s.