Probably wouldn't happen if your female relative was hot.

Zing.

A thread full of stories in which people's negligence and trust of others is taken advantage of for profit, and somehow yours proves all women everywhere deserve or ask to be scammed. Okay.

Let me clarify then.

lol females in my family

This thread is doing wonders for the reputation of poker players as upstanding moral citizens.

In all seriousness though, most people do small scams in their lifetime, nearly everyone steals music/media from the internet or office supplies from work, doesn't make it right, but chastising people for doing things most of us would do is......arrogant

Having said that, there are some scummy things in this thread.

About 4 years ago a bar here in vegas put out a money mailer match play coupon for $20 the first 2 weeks, $30 the 3rd week and $50 the 4th week of the month. It didn't have any restrictiins or 1 per person on it so we photocopied a ton of them and then proceeded to go to the bar every single night of the month and use them. My friends and I would put $200 in the machine to start and then hand the bartender 10 photocopied coupons and he would put another $200 in cash in to the machine. We'd play a little and win or lose we would cash out and rinse and repeat. We really hammered them on the $50 coupons. We would put in $500 in cash and the bartender would then put another $500 in. We absolutely crushed the place! They also gave you free money on your players card if you hit the card of the day. You also got tickets in to a drawing for every 4 OAK, I won the drawing for $1000 in freeplay. Over the course of the month me, my gf, and my friend made about $40,000. Keep in mind you didn't have to lose the money, you just had to make sure you played it through. I can't tell you how many times that month I hit aces with a kicker on 25 cent (pays $500) and 50 cent denomination (pays $1000) video poker. We also ate and drank for free. The bartenders loved us since we were tipping them so much every night.

The $40,000 number was between the 3 of us.

CLIFFS: Painstaking unnecessary detail of how teens working at full-serve gas stations scammed customers for a dollar or two from time to time, back when gas pumps were mechanical and not computerized.

Amateurs!

I pumped gas when I was a teen. No one in the world would fall for the "all zeroes at the end" gag. So this is what the teen hoodlums I worked with would do:

First, you need to understand that these old pumps had a big off-on switch. You had to remove the nozzle from its holder before you could turn the pump on, and the big metal lever would pivot into place into the nozzle holder. Then, when you finished pumping, you had to return this lever to the "off" position to get it out of the way so that the nozzle could nestle into its holder. Finally, you couldn't switch the lever "on" until you used a different mechanical release to reset the pump to $0.00.

So the intended procedure would be:

--reset pump to $0.00
--lift nozzle out of holder with one hand
--move the lever "on" with the other hand
--turn your back to pump and insert nozzle into car
--when finished pumping, return to pump, move lever "off", and return nozzle to holder.

Still with me? Cuz now, it's scam time.

Back when gas was about $.80/gal, there was nothing unusual about teens and broke people coming in and buying $2-3 worth of gas. This was the scammer's opportunity! When he finished pumping these small purchases, he didn't turn the lever off. The nozzle wouldn't fit into its holder, so he had to "hang the pump", figure out a way to make it look like it was in its holder, when it was really somewhere else--usually hooked onto the lever itself, when that was possible.

Now your next customer pulls up and says, "Fill 'er up." You remove the nozzle from it's makeshift perch, and because you never turned the lever off, it will still pump even though you didn't reset the pump to $0.00. If it came to $25, this guy only got $22, but the pump says $25.

I did it like everyone else, much more for the thrill of it than the measly financial gain, because I was a gullible teenager susceptible to peer pressure. But then I got caught once by a construction guy who hopped out and was ready to beat my ass, and that cured me of it (I had to buy him a tank of gas to "chill the beef", there goes that day's pay).

youtalkfunny - I have friends that have told me the same exact story about not resetting the lever when people came in for $2 or $3 bucks of gas.

This was also during the days when people would ask you to check their oil. They used to keep an empty bottle of oil on the shelf, and when people would ask for an oil check they would only dip the stick partway, and then show the customer they where low on oil. Out comes the empty bottle of oil, and they would pretend to dump it in the engine.

gas one sounds like a nice scam

when i worked fastfood at the mall there was usually just one other guy with me. we would leave the register slightly open so an order wouldnt have to be rung up and whenever someone ordered a regular combo and paid cash (total was always $8 even) the register guy just called out the order to the grill man and pocketed the cash. Do this for 5 orders and its an easy 20 a night each.

i also learned that if you ask for extra stuff after youve paid (extra toppings, cheese sauce for fries, etc) you usually get it because its easier just to agree then argue with a customer.

This is a woman who thought big.

http://news.yahoo.com/oregon-woman-g...ews-money.html

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/3509...egon-turbo.htm

Cliffs:
Woman completely fabricates $3 million in income on TurboTax. Amazingly, a $2.1 million dollar tax refund is issued to her on a debit card by the Oregon Department of Revenue. Woman proceeds to buy car and various other items.

How did she get caught? SHE REPORTED THE CARD STOLEN. I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP.

If something this obvious got through, I can only imagine what happens when people take any steps whatsoever to hide things or cover their tracks.

yeah this situation is the same thing

Beautiful in its simplicity.

there was an episode of locked up abroad (national geographic show) where a guy basically just printed out $100 US bills on a computer printer and did a few things to make them look more legit (like putting them in a dryer to wrinkle them up).

he then drove to mexico and bought a bunch of steroids (which are legally sold over the counter in mexico, but are illegal in the US) and paid for them with the fake US currency. then he would smuggle the steroids back into the US and sell them to gym rats.

this worked a bunch of times... but at one point, they needed a bit of money for something and all they had were the fake $100s. so he bought something little from a store. a few minutes later, the guy at the store notices the fake bill and chases them down and calls the police. the police stop him and find a bunch of the fake $100 bills in their car. they get thrown in a mexican prison... guy gets stabbed in jail.... eventually serves his time and goes back to the US.

so he was doing a double scam.... buying cheap steroids in mexico and selling them for way more back in the US. but he also paid for them with counterfeit money.

Never thought to do anything like in this thread. Never been a broke college student tho.

try being a broke college dropout, **** gets real

Too busy riding my moral high horse

When i was a kid i used to take a 2p coin and wrap it up in rizzla's and slot it into the 50p sweet machine, worked everytime

One time i bought a carton of Marlboro Lights and the corner pack was a little crushed, a few cigs in that pack were crushed too. I called up the customer complaint line and told them not only were the cigs crushed but they were stale. They asked me a **** ton of questions like where did I buy them (other side of town at some random 7/11), how much were they and all my info. About a week later I got a coupon in the mail for a free carton. Took it to the supermarket and the clerk was like "Wow nice coupon" saved me around $48.

wat

i guess it made the 2p coin weigh like the big 50p coin. long time ago, lol

so you're in Ireland and you mean the old Irish punt. Did this work on all sweet machines? Real missed opportunity here

The amount of petty theft in this thread is disturbing.

Reached the last page of this thread and got a phone call from an unknown number... searched it on google and it's a scam call...

DUN DUN DUN

Laughed really hard.