An earlier posting about people allegedly fiddling electric meters started me thinking about some of the small scams I have encounterd in the past.
1) The guys in the ship yards used to make blank coins roughly same weight as 50 pence pieces and would trawl the local pubs buying ciggies out of the vending machines.
2)The folk who worked in the pubs would take some kiddies plasticine into work and use a 50 pence piece to make a mold and freeze water once again scamming the ciggie machine.
3) I worked as a jeweller and fashion at one time was for folk to wear 1oz ingots well some of the crooks found out that an ingot could be hollowed out and filled with lead. Gave the approximate weight but the value was nothing compared to what they were selling for.
4) The false hallmark was also quite common a ring or piece of chaep jewelley would be cut and a hallmark inserted thus pushing the price up.
6) Fake watches replicas of quality watches being sold for silly money as the real thing
7) When colour printers first came into being for computers currency was being photocopied in great quantities.
Each locale must have had there own peculiar scams what were yours.
