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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more Tesco ScammageI used to work at tesco about 5 years ago back when i was 17. i'm always on the lookout for a scam wherever i go, and this was a particularly good one.. anyway. as someone loads their weekly shop onto the belt, i quickly scan it for an expensive item, e.g a bottle of Vodka, and wirte the barcode down on a bit of paper. put all their shopping through and total it up. let's say it comes to £110, they give me the £110, i run the transaction through, qucikly open and shut the till, and as they are still packing their bags, i quickly cancel the transaction, void the vodka off, and run it through again with the vodka voided off, so the whole shop is now say £100. I give them their orignal receipt from the 1st transaction, with the vodka on, still showing £110. so as far as they know, it's all normal. i throw away the 2nd receipt with the voided vodka. so now i have £10, left over as the till thinks the shop was only £100. Which i put in my pocket. the tills not down, but the stock is short. as you can imagine such small discrepancies in stock in a huge supermakret are probably put down to theft, breakages etc. Used to take home about an extra £100 a day on top of my wages from this scam!!
(, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 16:27, 1 reply)
I must confesswhere you wrote: "such small discrepancies in stock in a huge supermarket are probably put down to theft" my first thought was: "that is theft"
It's still a con, but...
(, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 18:23, closed)
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