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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Conning IcelandBecause people liked my last story so much, here's how we scammed Iceland.
Step 1: Sit on the tills and do your job.
Step 2: Wait until someone comes along and buys just one or two items.
Step 3: Add up the total of these items in your head. Helpfully, Iceland print the price which is usually rounded to the nearest 50p in big yellow stickers so it's not hard.
Step 4: The tills had (not anymore, they changed it after my misdemeanour) an 'Enquiry' function whereby you could scan an item, ascertain the price, but not have it actually put through the till. Not a necessary step, but it provided a geniune sounding *beep* when you scanned it, and you found out how much an item was.
Step 5: Take money from customer. Pretend to put in till. Pocket it. Repeat as needed.
Possible problems: The customer wants a reciept? The problem with this is that not scanning the items means no reciept obviously. But this was rarely an issue- people buying a bottle of milk and a loaf of bread don't bother with reciepts 9/10 times. If they insist, pretend something went wrong, and then make an actual transaction.
If the customer is paying by card, then you can't fake that, as reciepts are needed by the cash office for card payments. So repeat as above, simply rescan the items for real.
We had a fantastic time when Iceland were doing a "3 bottles of wine for £10" deal, as a lot of people would simply come in and just buy them. Easy tenner.
My record was £110 over two six-hour shifts. I'd walk out with my pockets totally weighed down with £1 and £2 coins cushioned with the occassional note. Between us, myself and my nameless accomplice got the best part of a grand over two months. Good times.
'Course then we got caught. Bad times.
Length.
(, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 19:44, 1 reply)
conning icelandin my time i have conned Smyth's toys this way
spent the money on shoes, cocktails and a tarot reading...i don't believe in that shite really but it wasn't my money so f**k it
(, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 19:55, closed)
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