A New York man has been arrested after he reportedly made over a million dollars selling Chuck E. Cheese tokens as Bitcoins on the streets.

Marlon Jensen, 36, was arrested a Sunday morning when NYPD stormed his home. NYPD received calls from the fraud victims that someone had sold them "Bitcoins", only to find out there actually wasno tangible bitcoin currency available. NYPD found $1.1 Million of cash inside Marlons home. According to police, Marlon had scratched off most of the Chuck E. Cheese engravements on the coins, andwould write "B" on each coin with permanent marker.

As many should know already, Bitcoin is a crypto currency and payment system that has recently received unprecedented popularity and value, with each bitcoin currently worth $18,950 USD. AlthoughBitcoin isn't actually a tangible form of currency, that hasn't stopped some people from successfully selling "bitcoins" to people using irrelevant gold coins, in this case Chuck E. CheeseTokens.

"People are retarded haha", said NYPD Officer Michael West, "My 8 year old son would know those weren't bitcoins and lord knows he's not the brightest".

Marlon is currently being charged with fraud and can face up to 5 years in federal prison.

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A story of a "Bitcoin scam" fired across the web this week telling of a New York City man who made $1 million in cash selling doctored Chuck E. Cheese tokens as Bitcoins, theskyrocketing digital currency.

Share after share on social media showed people praising the story's conman for duping apparent idiots into falling for the faux currency. They, of course, were the ones duped.

The story, "Man arrested after making over $1 million selling Chuck E. Cheese tokens as 'Bitcoins,'" was published on Huzlers.com with no byline.

Scroll to the bottom, past the Facebook comment praising the man's plan as "genius," and you find this disclaimer: "Huzlers.com is the most infamous fauxtire & satireentertainment website in the world."

If folks clicked past Facebook posts to read the actual story (doubtful), they would have seen tell-tale flags of phony news: the lack of a byline for accountability, the unknown site, plus thebizarre quotes with poor grammar. ("People are retarded haha," says a NYPD police officer, generically named "Michael West," in the story.)

To readthe complete article, see: Chuck E. Cheese tokenssold as Bitcoins? That's not a real story (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/12/21/chuck-e-cheese-tokens-sold-bitcoins-thats-not-real-story/973173001/)