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This might be long I don't know it depends how much I ramble so here goes.
A couple of weeks ago ( my parents business ) we get an order for 40k worth of stuff, not unusual and not particularly large but not small either.
As the business is high value goods, we only take cheque/cash/bankers draft and _always_ wait for the money to clear fully we tell customers it takes up to a week for a uk cheque to fully clear so anyway, he says ok and "tells" us that he'll send a courier to pick it up as soon as the cheque is cleared.... *DING DING DING*
For anyone who has worked with high value goods this is just a classic scam...send the cheque stolen from someone on holiday etc collect the goods and bye bye...
So anyway, suspicions aroused I'm given the duty of telling the bank manager when I go to cash the days cheques as I'm working the day it arrives.
So toodle off to the bank and pay the cheques in and talk to the manager, she says she'll let us know ASAP. She rings 3 days later - confirms its stolen.
Not wanting the chavscum to get away with it on someone else we ( not me ) ring the police and arrange for a couple of officers to be there when the courier arrives.
We phone the guy back and tell him the cheques cleared and he arranges for the courier to pick it up tomorrow ( now today ).
Ring the police back and they confirm thats ok.
10:30 this morning 4 coppers turn up, make them some tea and they go and hide in the backroom.
11am courier arrives, signs paper saying thats what he's collecting etc....my dad whistles and coppers wander in nonchalantly - the guy makes for the door only too late to realise its buzzer operated and he can't get out hahah the look on his face was priceless. It looked a little like this:
He claims to know nothing and he's just a taxi driver from somewhere down south. ( yeah reet ). The coppers pull a good cop bad cop and he eventually confesses that his buddies who are in on it are sitting in a car around the corner...
Cops find their car, take their coats off etc, stroll up to it and open the door and arrest the two eastern looking guys inside, call for a van to cart them all off.
The police ring up later to tell us all three have been charged and one of them is an illegal immigrant from Afghanistan.
Damnit I can't think of anything witty to finish this with so you'll just have to make do with this:
Scammers beware!
A couple of weeks ago ( my parents business ) we get an order for 40k worth of stuff, not unusual and not particularly large but not small either.
As the business is high value goods, we only take cheque/cash/bankers draft and _always_ wait for the money to clear fully we tell customers it takes up to a week for a uk cheque to fully clear so anyway, he says ok and "tells" us that he'll send a courier to pick it up as soon as the cheque is cleared.... *DING DING DING*
For anyone who has worked with high value goods this is just a classic scam...send the cheque stolen from someone on holiday etc collect the goods and bye bye...
So anyway, suspicions aroused I'm given the duty of telling the bank manager when I go to cash the days cheques as I'm working the day it arrives.
So toodle off to the bank and pay the cheques in and talk to the manager, she says she'll let us know ASAP. She rings 3 days later - confirms its stolen.
Not wanting the chavscum to get away with it on someone else we ( not me ) ring the police and arrange for a couple of officers to be there when the courier arrives.
We phone the guy back and tell him the cheques cleared and he arranges for the courier to pick it up tomorrow ( now today ).
Ring the police back and they confirm thats ok.
10:30 this morning 4 coppers turn up, make them some tea and they go and hide in the backroom.
11am courier arrives, signs paper saying thats what he's collecting etc....my dad whistles and coppers wander in nonchalantly - the guy makes for the door only too late to realise its buzzer operated and he can't get out hahah the look on his face was priceless. It looked a little like this:
He claims to know nothing and he's just a taxi driver from somewhere down south. ( yeah reet ). The coppers pull a good cop bad cop and he eventually confesses that his buddies who are in on it are sitting in a car around the corner...
Cops find their car, take their coats off etc, stroll up to it and open the door and arrest the two eastern looking guys inside, call for a van to cart them all off.
The police ring up later to tell us all three have been charged and one of them is an illegal immigrant from Afghanistan.
Damnit I can't think of anything witty to finish this with so you'll just have to make do with this:
Scammers beware!
