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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MombasaWhen I was 15 (also my parents' 25th wedding anniversary) we went to Kenya and Tanzania on safari.
After an amazing week (best thing: siafu, army ants - sod the lions and zebras!) we flew from Nairobi (in a plane which included a free cockroach) to Mombasa to recover for a week. We ventured into the city and got picked up by a guide. He took us around all the usual tourist places (where Her Maj once stayed, the Red Fort, etc) and a not-half-bad souvenir shop. We paid him modicum of notes (he having suggested $100 at first - ahem, ahem, we aren't that daft, thank-you).
We then read in a tourist guide that we had been taken for a massive ride, that we had paid him WAY too much and that we had been taken to the most absurdly expensive tourist tat place in the city. The engraved soapstone dish that we bought faded to almost nothingness within a year. We had been had.
Still, it's not like a family who could take a safari were exactly on their uppers...
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Parmesan Quality b4 Quantity, Wed 24 Oct 2007, 22:12,
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