More Fun Ways to Make Money Until You Get Caught

1. Cheese smuggling (“The alleged scam involves jamming cases of “brick” cheese — used as a common pizza topping — into their vehicles to smuggle across the border. With U.S. cheese being as little as a third the price it is in Canada, drivers are making $1,000 to $2,000 a trip, according to numerous sources.”)

2. Ben Franklin bust stealing (“’It’s like stealing Venus de Milo from the Louvre,’ said D’Angelo. ‘What in heaven’s name would you think she was going to do with it?’”)

3. Finders Keepers (“A South Florida woman named Rutha Mae Facyson dropped $29 in a Home Depot in Sunrise on Monday, according to police, but before she could pick it up off the ground a man allegedly claimed ‘Finders, keepers!’ and ran off to buy crack cocaine.”)

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