This Is Your FBI: The Curious Fisherman

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The subject of our FBI file armed robbery, its title, The Curious Fisherman. Tonight's case was selected because it points up a warning that your FBI has issued many times on this program.

This warning is don't publicize yourself as a promising victim for a crime. The underworld finds it highly profitable to scan newspapers carefully, to circulate unobtrusively in public places. The man who openly displays a well-filled wallet invites a pickpocket. The woman who allows herself to be photographed wearing costly jewels may be setting the wheels in motion for a carefully planned robbery months later.

Tonight's case from the official FBI files is dramatic proof that public display of wealth can be an invitation to grind. Tonight's FBI file opens on a small fishing boat tied to appear on the outskirts of a western city.