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"textContent": "Jerrelle Augustine used Lego to build a deliciously good scam, as police in California have it. He allegedly ordered boxes of the bricks, swapped them for pasta, then returned them for a refund. Augustine made $34,000 before being identified, according to prosecutors, but now appears to be quite cooked. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Lego replaced with pasta in $34k return scam appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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