A guy made a machine that he claimed could turn one dollar bills into hundred dollars bills. After demonstrating the contraption, the guy would offer to sell it for a couple of thousand dollars and some suckers actually bought it. The machine had blinking lights on it and a secret compartment stocked with a couple of C-notes -- which ran out as soon as the buyer got the machine home. Read about it in a book about the FBI.
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