01 April 2013

VENEZUELA : Black Market Website Lechuga Verde...Burns Frantic Dollar Seeking Venezuelans.


      This is a cautionary tale...if ever there was one.
      Dollar hungry Venezuelans have learned that their appetites to exchange Bolivars for $usds in the black market...but online...may have cost them.
      Lechuga Verde/Green Lettuce...the leading, popular website for following daily black market exchange rates on Venezuela's tightly controlled currency...Bolivars...has apparently defrauded them...and disappeared. 
     On 8 March...all traces of Lechuga on Twitter, Facebook and the internet...vanished.
     And...with it...money from thousands of desperate, dollar-seeking Venezuelans.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-31/venezuelans-desperate-for-u-s-dollars-get-defrauded-on-internet.html