Little Rock police put out an alert today about a pair of men working a swindle known to cops as a pigeon drop. It’s convoluted by design, but it starts with somebody ostensibly needing help handling a large sum of money and ends with the pigeon turning over money from his or her own checking account.

It’s a real-life enactment, I guess, of the Nigerian e-mail schemes. Lt. Terry Hastings’ warning is on the jump. It was supported by six police reports of such scams since September. They accounted for more than $24,000 in stolen cash and $10,000 in stolen jewelry. Men and women of various ages were victimized after being approached on bank and shopping center parking lots.

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