All Scams articles – Page 9
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Dear Jac: The scam slot - healthy as ever
Revisiting a very regular subject, here's the news on a couple of the recent cons doing the rounds.
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Dear Jac: Is Manchester 'Scam Central'? And is there really a Mr Big?
I hope I don't offend any law-abiding upright Mancunians but I can't help thinking that Manchester could also be known as Scam Central as it is where so many of the 'popular' scams originate.
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Dear Jac: Just when you think you’ve heard all the tricks, another comes along.
A man walks into Subhash Patel’s Spar store in Richmond, Surrey, and explains that he has just moved in and is running a business in the building opposite. In a business-to-business spirit he runs down the ways that they can mutually benefit. The ‘neighbour’ will need to buy in bulk ...
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Dear Jac: I've won the lottery!
Not for the first time either, although I've yet to see any money. This time it was an online cyber lotto draw conducted from an exclusive list of 250,000 email addresses. I've won 850,000 pounds 'staling', it says here. It sent me a phone number to respond to (clearly overseas) ...
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Dear Jac: Beware the enemy within
According to recent figures, about one-third of store theft is down to staff, with almost another 5% taken by dishonest suppliers, and yet another 15% down to ‘internal errors’ (European Retail Theft Barometer).
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Dear Jac: Self-service stores will always be tempting to thieves. But are there double standards at work?
I frequently hear stories about inventive crooks. Amjad Farooq, who runs a Booker Premier at Bolton in Lancashire, offered me a good example. He has traded in the Halliwell area for 18 years and has suffered plenty of petty thievery. But this one was different. A ‘gent’ came into the ...
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Dear Jac: The Swiss are after European City Guide.
This will come as good news to retailers in this country who have been harassed by European City Guide (ECG), a company fingered as operating a scam by quite a few European countries. The high-profile website www.stopecg.org claims that 50,000+ businesses are fighting against bills they never expected to receive ...
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Dear Jac: Here’s a scam masquerading as a worthy police campaign.
This is the old familiar drugs awareness publication aimed at schools. Peter Smith, who runs Sutton Benger Post Office near Chippenham in Wiltshire, was approached a year or so ago by a rep selling space on behalf of Wiltshire Police for a booklet to be circulated to schools to prevent ...
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Dear Jac: How do you tell the chavs from the chaps?
I suppose if you look at the statistics then the majority of your customers are reasonably law abiding, don’t pinch from you or abuse your staff. But, yes, it’s time for another warning.
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Dear Jac: How do you know if you are being ripped off?
In the April 22 issue I reported that the final chapter had been written on bogus ‘drugs awareness’ publisher Anderson Clarke Publications. ACP was folded by the DTI following an investigation which showed the company wasn’t printing all the copies of books for schools for which it was charging sponsors.