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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First postI must have been 13 or so. New-ish to Upper school anyway. The whole school had a sponsored something or other (I honestly can't remember what we had to do) and all the money went to Help The Aged.
It was a big deal, hundreds of kids getting sponsors for whatever it was and the one whoever raised the most money got a prize! All the kids were excited.
My Dad was a Lawyer at the time so knew lots of people with lots of money and so got me sheet-loads of sponsors. I was well chuffed. I'd got about £300 which was a lot for a kid in the '80s.
Anyway, a few weeks later all the money was counted and my teacher announced that i'd raised the most money and was given a bloody certificate of the fact. That was the prize!
I took said certificate and rammed it into my bag 'cos it was crap. We'd all been done. Bstrds.
But here's the best bit. At that point I hadn't handed in my sponsor money. It was still on my dad's shelf at home . So i told Dad what happened and he just said "don't worry Son, i'll sort it" or words to that effect.
A few weeks later we had a new car. It was a second hand Vauxhall Cavalier. And it was crap.
(not all Lawyers are rich, or honest. He now drives a bus and is much happier for it)
(, Fri 19 Oct 2007, 20:54, Reply)
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