The box looked like it had $20,000 (£15,000) in cash. Most of it was catalogue paper.
That decoy, photographed and sent to a man calling himself 'Calvin', was the last move in a con that had already stripped a 69-year-old Texas grandmother of $100,000 (£75,000). When a courier came to collect it at a Family Dollar car park in Kountze, one of her grandsons was hiding under a blanket in the back seat.
