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In a report on Monday headlined Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) said an opaque group of web-based vendors from Veles are selling debit-like “Trump cards” featuring the image of the former U.S. President, each supposedly preloaded with $200,000.
“Last September, 86-year-old Ann Bratton thought she’d stumbled onto the investment of a lifetime. An ad on one of the encrypted Telegram app channels the Nashville-area retiree had joined was offering debit-like “Trump cards” featuring the billionaire U.S. ex-president’s image, each supposedly preloaded with $200,000. After years of forking out tens of thousands of dollars on souvenir banknotes, coins, and other Trump memorabilia, she calculated that she could quickly and easily turn a $6,000 investment into a $4 million nest egg. What she didn’t know was that behind the offer of “Trump Collection” cards was an opaque group of web-based vendors from a faded industrial city 8,500 kilometres away. And that city, in the Balkan country of North Macedonia, was already notorious for being home to legions of scammers who had fraudulently monetized Donald Trump’s popularity in the United States and around the world,” RFE/RL says, inter alia, in the report.
