Posted on 11/21/2023 12:22:51 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Those watches, handbags and sunglasses might look awfully alluring when laid out on a New York City street corner — but the feds want holiday shoppers to keep walking.
That was the message they hammered home Tuesday as federal authorities warned people not to shell out their hard-earned dollars for fraudulent goods — whose very existence poses a shadowy threat to the country, they said.
“Today we’re here to warn the public again with an old saying that will stand the test of time: If the deal seems too good to be true, it probably is,” Marina Vides, assistant special agent-in-charge of Homeland Security Investigations, said from the cargo facility at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens.
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Lol. The Fed agencies themselves are fraudulent goods.
When the feds become salesmen for Lois Vitto, I think it’s time to end their paychecks from our Treasury.
(Louis Vitton)
Oh they care so much about us …I mean their completely deflated economy
The predictions must be devastating
Vuitton
I’m comforted in my error on that matter.
Solution-—pay for the counterfeit goods with counterfeit money.
According to the United States Department of Treasury, an estimated $70 million in counterfeit bills are in circulation, or approximately one counterfeit note for every 10,000 in genuine currency.
-—Crews Bank website
Then be doubly careful about Amazon 3rd party purchases.
LOL!
Thank God our federal protectors have time to protect us like this. Obviously all the big crimes have been solved and all the MAGA people put in their place, so they can concentrate on this.
How about my sable hat and my Willard organizer?
A good example: COVID vaccinations.
Well, half the people are below average.
But, I think it’s a lot more than that.
Now they tell me, the day after I bought what I thought was a case of Crest toothpaste.
Did they add people could just use Temu from the comfort of their homes instead?
You mean that Rolecks watch I bought on the street corner might be fake?
“They really really thing we are stupid”
You can fool some of the people all of the time ...
“Oh they care so much about us …I mean their completely deflated economy
The predictions must be devastating”
Yes. The question is: why now? Those guys (mostly Africans) have been selling their junk on the street for decades.
Because of the holiday revenue predictions. When they come through for real. After holiday report Biden is going to be looked at by his corporate supporters.
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