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By Pete Kotz in bizarre, fraud
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 3:34 pm
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Antonio F. Phillips had a nice scam going. He would drive around to the bad parts of town, then hand out $5 bills in exchange for people's names, birthdays and Social Security numbers. No doubt there was a huge market for the information he was collecting...

And no doubt you have to be one of the biggest morons on the planet to swap said information for a mere five bucks.

But apparently a lot of people in Louisville were more than willing. According to police, an officer was flagged down by a woman who said someone was buying Social Security numbers out of his car. When the cop arrived at the scene, he found a crowd surrounding Phillips' car, waiting to take part in this lucrative transaction.

The cop not only found Phillips to be illegally carrying a handgun. A search revealed more than $500 in $5 bills, just waiting to be handed to that lucky someone who badly wants a ruined credit record. Phillips also had a notebook with a growing list of names, and a map of Louisville homeless shelters.

It seems that in exchange for names, birthdays, and numbers, he was telling his customers that they would now be eligible for money from the federal stimulus package. 

Phillips, being a moron himself, asked the officer if he was breaking the law. Indeed he was, replied the cop, who arrested Phillips for trafficking in stolen weapons and carrying a concealed firearm.

See our last episode involving fraud: Impostor Fakes His Way to Becoming High School Basketball Star.

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