How to scam shops out of fags and money :)
My mate Sam is the cheekiest little bastard I know; He scams people ALL the time, likes to think of it as "his calling"...However, he is very good at it.

He would hardly ever talk about his tricks and techniques, but the one thing he did share with me was the following:

for this you will need:

1 £20 note
1 £10 note

This works 90% of the time in pretty much any convenience shope/corner shop/supermarket etc..

Position a £10 note loosely in your back pocket, and keep the £20 in your hand.

pick a small item of the shelves (choccy bar or something..it acts as a sort of distraction), and approach the counter. put the small item down on the counter, and the £20 next to it. The shop assistant will undoubtedly look down and acknowledge both items.

Then ask for 20 fags. As he turns round to get them, pull the £10 out of your back pocket and swap it with the £20. put the £10 into your pocket. Make sure he doesnt see or detect any of this. There should now be the choccy bar and the £10 note on the counter.

Now..1 of 2 things will happen. Either the shop keeper will not look at the note and so not realise it's now a £10, in which case you will get change for £20 (earning yourself about £5 and a free packet of fags)..OR..he will have looked at the £10 note after getting your fags, assumed that his eyes had been playing tricks on him before when he thought he had seen a £20, and give you change for a ten. In which case, you just calmly say "erm, I gave you a £20". They will pretty much always assume you are right, given that they thought they saw a £20 on the counter in the first place, and reimburse you for rest of the change from your £20 (which was actually a £10).

It works ALOT more than you would think. try it.
(BatCountry organised, attended, and was thrown out on, Mon 22 Oct 2007, 13:34, 3 replies)

But please note
That you should not try this in a supermarket. They will close the till & do a count of the money as soon as possible.

Small corner shops are best. :)
(Prawn, Mon 22 Oct 2007, 14:07, closed)

Or indeed
don't try it in a shop with CCTV as you'll be spotted!

Or have I been watching The Bill too much? Every crime seems to be solved by looking at CCTV tapes.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 22 Oct 2007, 14:32, closed)

As a former till monkey
we are trained to take the money and stick it on the counter where *we* can see and reach it. Then when you try to pull "but I gave you a twenty", we pick it up and wave it at you.
(Emily Bruce-Dickinson http://jovialfellow.blogspot.com/, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 10:09, closed)