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Woman in Chinatown hypnotized by thieves
http://www.necn.com/05/04/12/Woman-in-Chinatown-hypnotized-by-thieves/landing.html?blockID=702498&feedID=4206Boston’s Chinatown is where an older Chinese woman says she was hypnotized on the street, turning money and other valuables to a group of scam artists while under a trance.
The woman - who speaks only Cantonese - says she was approached by three Asian women on Monday.
They tapped her on the shoulder, and started asking her questions about her family. After that, the woman told police, she was hypnotized.
She says she then went to her apartment - gathered up jewelry and $160,000 in cash and brought it to the Boston Common, where she gave it to the thieves.
Supposedly this has also happened in other cities and is commonplace in China.
The woman - who speaks only Cantonese - says she was approached by three Asian women on Monday.
They tapped her on the shoulder, and started asking her questions about her family. After that, the woman told police, she was hypnotized.
She says she then went to her apartment - gathered up jewelry and $160,000 in cash and brought it to the Boston Common, where she gave it to the thieves.
Obviously, groups of thieves are not going around hypnotizing people and robbing them. So what's the story here? Some kind of mass hysteria? Insurance scams? People looking for attention?
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