How to Buy Jewelry with Monopoly

If you want to buy super expensive jewelry, you can always try using Monopoly banknotes. Sure, you risk going to jail, but you have a good chance of completing the purchase. Or, rather, the scam. Gioiellis.com usually doesn’t report news stories, jewelry thefts and the like. But we’ll make an exception because this story is really funny (except for the victim). A Greek jeweler who thought he was getting a good deal was scammed in Paris. He had been contacted by two men with the prospect of selling four rings and a necklace worth 6 million euros. At the time of the sale, in a Parisian hotel, the two scammers opened a suitcase full of 500 euro bills. The first ones, of course, were real. The funny thing is that the merchant, to be on the safe side, checked (he claims) the banknotes. After the exchange, the jeweler went to the bank to deposit the sum. Only then did the banknotes reveal themselves for what they really were: used tickets for the game of Monopoly in the euro version, with a watermark to make them unusable. But it’s a not very visible writing, apparently…