I think sometimes when I hear them I think fair play, very inventive... A lad I work with went to Wembley last year to watch some football match and when they got there (in the car) they were looking for somewhere to park and found some piece of tarmac with a bloke there and a gate charging a tenner for the day. They paid went to the football match came back. The little booth and gate had gone and a copper was there....turns out it was a scam....private land and the scammers disappeared....brilliant.... Next one: Mate mate works for a government agency - above the police but I wont say who. They came over to stay new years eve and we were chatting round the kitchen table most of the night. He told me there was a gang operating in November in and around London running a scam and said...."I don't think we'll ever catch'em..." almost in a little bit of admiration... They bought a fruit machine off ebay, then went to a pub (heavily disguised...) cap on the head etc etc, go into the pub with the fruit machine. Say to whoever is behind the bar "just changing the fruit machine over...!" obviously whoever is behind the bar doesn't know anything better, says ok and they take the fruit machine (full of cash) apparently the staff/owners don't have access to the machine - they get a cut when the machine is emptied by the fruit machine company....scammers empty the machine then take it to the next pub....so he tells me they made almost a million..... Awesome.
Brilliant isn't it - there was another one he told me about - made 1.3 million (no chance of catching them) - I cant remember the scam but if it comes back to me ill put it up...
I remember my old dad (bless him) telling me about a little firm that frequented a pub he drank in doing a scam for the 1966 World Cup final at Wembley.i can't remember the exact figures but fans were selling their souls to get a ticket for the big day and they put an advert in London Evening News and Standard "guaranteed World Cup final seats for sale £20" and you sent off a £20 postal order about 2 weeks before.What you got back was a little dolls house size wooden chair with World Cup stamped on it! Word was the postman was delivering 5 big sacks of mail a day to some terraced house in Bow
just remembered. a fella i know got lifted about 20odd years ago after selling raffle tickets for a chance to win Bonnie prince charlies comb :Hilarious: to American tourists on the Mull ferry. suckers :Hilarious:
