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The curse was the product. The bank account was the altar.

A federal indictment unsealed this week in the Western District of Washington alleges a Frisco, Texas couple ran a curse-removal scheme that pulled more than $2 million from a single Washington victim. The machinery kept running, prosecutors say, even when one operator was behind bars.

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Ponzi / Pyramid

The check left her hand. The check never reached the bank.

Four Detroit defendants, including two former mail processing clerks, were sentenced in a scheme that moved more than 10,000 stolen checks with a combined face value above $63 million. The marketplace was a Telegram channel. The fuel was the trust people still place in a blue mailbox.

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