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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Confident CoupleAnother one that wasn't me either although I had a bit part in the aftermath.
We moved into a newly renovated house around ten years back. We were the second set of tenants since the renovation.
After a couple of months, we started getting bailiff letters and stern letters from credit companies addressed to the couple who'd lived there before us. We just wrote "Not Known At This Address" and sent them back. Then the police started to call to the door in search of the couple (the bloke mainly).
Turned out that they were pretending to be a pair of either soon-to-be-married or newly weds who were fitting out their first house. They would go to an electrical store and order up top of the range white goods, tvs, videos etc. They'd either ask for the store's credit plan or else charge it to their 'genuine' credit cards. When the goods arrived, the delivery bloke would be told to leave them as is in their packaging as the house wasn't quite ready. Then a mate would come round and take the lot away where it most likely went into one of those dodgy 'auctions'. They did the same thing with furniture and cars. They were in the house for nearly a year and fitted out the house several times over using a different store each time.
We were in the house for a couple of years and never heard anything about them being caught.
(, Fri 19 Oct 2007, 13:10, Reply)
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