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Spookdaddy Cuckoo Joined: 24 May 2006 Total posts: 3834 Location: Midwich Gender: Unknown |
 Posted: 30-06-2013 19:26 Post subject: |
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| Spookdaddy wrote: | | gncxx wrote: | A friend of mine was out driving in the countryside - I was in the passenger seat - when he stopped for a foreign man apparently broken down at the side of the road. He tried to persuade us to give him money in exchange for a ring, but we fobbed him off by telling him to phone the operator for the number of a nearby garage.
He seemed genuinely stuck, though there was no way we were giving him cash, but after reading the above I wonder. Anyone hear of a roadside variation? |
I have heard of a variation which involves someone supposedly in car related trouble claiming that they've lost their credit cards and offering, apparently out of desperation, a gold ring in exchange for cash. I think this variation might also be mentioned somewhere in the link.
Sounds very much like your scenario... |
There's apparently been a mini-epidemic of this scam along and close by the A515 (Lichfield area, up through Ashbourne and into the Peak District).
Drivers beware. |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13303 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 30-06-2013 22:38 Post subject: |
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| I encountered it in Southern Scotland, so they're certainly getting about. Wonder if it's the same bloke? |
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| Spookdaddy Cuckoo Joined: 24 May 2006 Total posts: 3834 Location: Midwich Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 01-07-2013 08:12 Post subject: |
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| gncxx wrote: | | I encountered it in Southern Scotland, so they're certainly getting about. Wonder if it's the same bloke? |
It is being associated with the activities of certain members of - how shall I put it - the non-statically housed mobile minority. |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 20322 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 26-07-2013 15:47 Post subject: |
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| eburacum wrote: | And in Bagdad
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22266225
| Quote: | Fake bomb detectors still being used in Baghdad
23 April 2013 Last updated at 17:25
A corrupt British businessman has been convicted of fraud after a jury found him guilty of a multi-million pound scam selling bogus bomb detecting equipment around the world.
Iraq spent more than $40m (£26.2m) on 6,000 of Jim McCormick's fake devices between 2008 and 2010.
Despite the authorities in the UK establishing the bomb detectors were useless in 2012, the BBC's Ben Brown discovered they were still in widespread use in Baghdad while filming there in March 2013
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It seems McCormick wasn't the only one:
Gary Bolton guilty of selling fake bomb detectors
A businessman has been found guilty of making and selling fake bomb detectors.
The Old Bailey heard the devices made by Gary Bolton, 47, were nothing more than boxes with handles and antennae.
The prosecution said he sold them for up to £10,000 each, claiming they could detect explosives. The trial heard that the company had a £3m annual turnover selling the homemade devices.
Bolton, of Redshank Road in Chatham, Kent, had denied two charges of fraud. Sentencing has been adjourned.
Richard Whittam QC, prosecuting, told the court Mr Bolton knew the devices - which were also alleged to be able to detect drugs, tobacco, ivory and cash - did not work but supplied them anyway to be sold to overseas businesses.
They were made at Bolton's Kent home and at the offices of Global Technology Ltd.
Mr Whittam said one company X-rayed a device and found nothing inside the box. 
He said tests on the detectors, carried out as far back as 2001, had suggested they performed no better than random searches for explosives.
Jurors found Bolton guilty of a charge of making an article for use in the course of fraud and one of supplying an article for use in the course of fraud between January 2007 and July last year.
Bolton claimed that the devices worked with a range of 766 yards (700m) at ground level and as far as two and half miles (4km) in the air and said they were effective through lead-lined and metal walls, water, containers and earth.
But "double-blind" tests on a Mole device as early as 2001 showed it had a successful detection rate of 9%, with Bolton sent the test results.
Sentencing was adjourned to a later, unfixed date and Bolton was released on conditional bail.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-23461638 |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 20322 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 09-08-2013 10:26 Post subject: |
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Man who created own credit card sues bank for not sticking to termsWhen Dmitry Argarkov was sent a letter offering him a credit card, he found the rates not to his liking.
By Andrew Trotman
4:41PM BST 08 Aug 2013
But he didn't throw the contract away or shred it. Instead, the 42-year-old from Voronezh, Russia, scanned it into his computer, altered the terms and sent it back to Tinkoff Credit Systems.
Mr Argarkov's version of the contract contained a 0pc interest rate, no fees and no credit limit. Every time the bank failed to comply with the rules, he would fine them 3m rubles (£58,716). If Tinkoff tried to cancel the contract, it would have to pay him 6m rubles.
Tinkoff apparently failed to read the amendments, signed the contract and sent Mr Argakov a credit card.
"The Bank confirmed its agreement to the client's terms and sent him a credit card and a copy of the approved application form," his lawyer Dmitry Mikhalevich told Kommersant. "The opened credit line was unlimited. He could afford to buy an island somewhere in Malaysia, and the bank would have to pay for it by law."
However, Tinkoff attempted to close the account due to overdue payments. It sued Mr Argakov for 45,000 rubles for fees and charges that were not in his altered version of the contract. 
Earlier this week a Russian judge ruled in Mr Argakov's favour. Tinkoff had signed the contract and was legally bound to it. Mr Argakov was only ordered to pay an outstanding balance of 19,000 rubles (£371).
"They signed the documents without looking. They said what usually their borrowers say in court: 'We have not read it',” said Mr Mikhalevich. 
But now Mr Argakov has taken matters one step further. He is suing Tinkoff for 24m rubles for not honouring the contract and breaking the agreement.
Tinkoff has launched its own legal action, accusing Mr Argakov of fraud.
Oleg Tinkov, founder of the bank, tweeted: "Our lawyers think he is going to get not 24m, but really 4 years in prison for fraud. Now it's a matter of principle for @tcsbanktwitter."
The court will review Mr Argakov's case next month.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/borrowing/creditcards/10231556/Man-who-created-own-credit-card-sues-bank-for-not-sticking-to-terms.html |
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