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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A conman persuaded an Ethiopian town's inhabitants to give him hundreds of dollars by promising to multiply the cash and make it "fall like rain" from the sky, police said on Wednesday.
The man took $695 from people in eastern Kazamile town on Oct. 18 claiming he could return it to them many times over with the help of a demon, Seargent Seyoum Assefa, a police spokesman in Gorgurtu District, told state-run Ethiopian News Agency.
"The imposter told his clients to cover their faces so that a demon who would descend from the sky to talk to him would not harm them," Sergent Seyoum said.
"As the unsuspecting people who expected that their money would come like rain from the sky covered their faces, the imposter disappeared from the area."
Police arrested the man and are questioning him.
Quote of the Day
"She seems like she's always seemed. This is one of the hardest-working women you're ever going to meet. She doesn't mind working and doing prison stuff, like regular chores."
-Survivor producer MARK BURNETT after visiting MARTHA STEWART in prison, quoted in the New York Daily News.
Who doesn't enjoy doing "prison stuff"?
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