ConnedswiftyisNOTevil writes, "I have recently become obsessed with the BBC Three show 'The Real Hustle' - personally, I think of it as a 'How To' show for aspiring con artists."
Have you carried out a successful con? Perhaps you hustled a few quid off a stranger, or defrauded a multi-national company. Or have you been taken for the wide-eyed, naive rube that you are?
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chthonic, Thu 18 Oct 2007, 13:02)
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Not me but...The guitarist in my band. Now, I have no sympathy as this is sheer idiocy and frankly deserves to be exploited. Let's begin.
This all starts when we're playing a gig and his guitar dies. Bugger, no sound. He's left handed, so has to borrow a right handed one and play it upside down. After this utter debacle, we decide we need some backup for him...
After a trip round the guitar shops I'd found him loads of nice, left handed, decently priced backup guitars, but no. He wants the most expensive thing he can lay his hands on, and sets his sights on a vintage Gibson, left handed.
These are not the easiest things to find, and after no luck in the UK, he ventures online to a guitarists forum to see what he can find. After posting one message, he gets a reply almost instantly from a guy with a left handed version of exactly the guitar he's after, who's willing to sell it and ship it to him for £2,000. "Great!" thinks he, and, unperturbed by the fact that this guy doesn't want to list it on E-Bay for a quick buy it now (for buyers / sellers rights etc), quickly goes about wiring this chap some money. Now... what do you think happens if you wire £2,000 to a stranger in Brazil with no guarantees or protection?
Idiota.
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Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Fri 19 Oct 2007, 9:48,
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You get a package of coke in the post?Yeah, but what does the guitar play like?
Um, hang on....
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