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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Big Issue (again)I always bought (still buy) the big issue if i have spare change, even through my skint student years.
So this one day, i get approached by a vender begging me to buy his last copy so that he could finish for the day. I only had 2 quid on me (on my way to buy some milk) but I figured this guy probably needed the 2 quid more then i needed my milk. So I handed over the money only to have the man ask if he could keep my money AND the last copy to sell again because he needed more money then he had copies to sell.
So flustered by the his cheekiness, i blurted "um yeh ok", turned around and wondered back home milkless and big issueless. It took me a full minute to realise he was probably conning everyone with this 'last copy' scam, but by the time i returned to where he was, he had gone.
I actually really wanted to read that week's issue as well. And i couldn't even have a cup of tea to console myself 'cause tea without milk is just plain disgusting.
:'(
(, Sun 21 Oct 2007, 16:38, Reply)
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