this is a SCAM doont give anyone your account number
OK. *sigh* I guess I have to spell it out.
I don't think Eric Renard (the Captain's brother) is actually dead. James Frain, who plays him, has not been killed in a car accident or anything, and short of that they would have shown us the crash, or his dead body, or something, if he were really dead.
What did we get instead? News footage saying he was killed in a crash, with a long shot of a burning car, and a bunch of people saying it's done, we killed him, he's dead.
Yeah, right.
It's a SCAM. Probably one perpetrated by Eric, who has clearly (and it's gotten clearer these last few eps) infiltrated the networks allied to Captain Renard.
SO, to make that point, I said "if you believe this" and pointed to several things that are well known to be scams. Selling the
Brooklyn Bridge is the most time-honored one:
Wikipedia said:
References to "selling the Brooklyn Bridge" abound in American culture, sometimes as examples of rural gullibility but more often in connection with an idea that strains credulity. For example, "If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you." George C. Parker and William McCloundy are two early 20th-century con-men who had (allegedly) successfully perpetrated this scam on unwitting tourists.[61] The 1949 Bugs Bunny cartoon Bowery Bugs is a joking reference to Bugs "selling" a story of the Brooklyn Bridge to a naïve tourist.
The 419 scams are also well known. (BTW, the misspellings and bad grammar are deliberate in the real scam emails: they're designed to weed out the not-completely-gullible. I imitated them in my posts.)
So no, don't give your bank account number to someone who emails you. Don't call the 419 Area Code, ever. If you go to New York, don't buy a bridge from anyone, no matter how honest they seem.
And don't believe that Eric Renard is dead, until they show us his body...and given that this is
Grimm, perhaps not then!