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Handbag Theft Scam
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xxlaurissaxx wrote: »Do you believe everything you read online?????
Do YOU believe everything you hear?
**Thanks to everyone on here for hints, tips and advice!**:D
lostinrates wrote: »MSEers are often quicker than google
"Freedom is the right to tell people what they don't want to hear" - G. Orwell0 -
trisontana wrote: »If your John Lewis story is true, what town did it happen in, was it reported to the police and, if so, what is the crime number.
It happened in Edinburgh and yes it was reported and how am I supposed to know the crime number? I didnt say it happened to me
As for the sat-nav story I don't recall seeing this crime reported in any newspapers or reported on TV. If it was that prevalent the police would be warning people not to put their address in to the instrument, just as they warn you not to leave the thing on show.
I would rather believe Snopes than something that is supposed to have happened to a friend of a friend etc.
Your life, not mine. I cant tell you what to believe and what not to believe.0/2013
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xxlaurissaxx wrote: »trisontana wrote: »What if the car is in the garage, or there are more than one person living in the house? And why bother with the sat-nav. Why not just walk down a street and look for potential empty houses.
Then they wouldnt be able to break into the car on the street will they????:rotfl:
Thats probably the risk they take. If there is someone home, they wont go near and possibly wait for another chance. There are stories of burgulars breaking in while there are people home but didnt notice, and only realise when they are in, get startled like a rabbit in headlights and run off.
Or are they urban myths too????:rolleyes:
I thought the urban myth says that the car is broken into when it is miles away from the owners home, the sat-nav is accessed and then the thief drives to that house knowing that it will be unoccupied . Nothing about the car being parked outside the owners house.What part of "A whop bop-a-lu a whop bam boo" don't you understand?0 -
xxlaurissaxx wrote: »trisontana wrote: »There are stories of burgulars breaking in while there are people home but didnt notice, and only realise when they are in, get startled like a rabbit in headlights and run off.
Or are they urban myths too????:rolleyes:
Er. . . but they aren't "stories".
They're aspects of criminal cases of B&E (or, depending on the hour, burglary) that have occurred over the past 200 years or more, perhaps beginning with "watch out for unruly peasants, one broke into the Baron's Castle last week, thought no-one was in The great Hall, tried to nick a sword, they hung him next day after a fair trial."
They're not stories or alerts or warnings or urban myths. Just recorded incidents of a type of crime.
EDIT: whoops. It's an urban myth that the post referred to here was made by trisontana. She / he didn't. I blame it on MSE formatting, which can cause more problems than even a poisonous banana.0 -
"It happened in Edinburgh and yes it was reported and how am I supposed to know the crime number? I didnt say it happened to me"
So at least two crimes at opposite ends of the country:-
"She got a phonecall the next day saying John Lewis, was told to come along and ask for Mr X, went along, told there wasnt a handbag there or anyone there by that name, got home and all her xmas presents (wrapped under her tree, ready to give out) and her tv etc were all gone. I can promise this was 100% true!"
"After a few days, Jude recieved a phone call supposedly from John Lewis saying they found her bag and asking when will she come and collect it. At the pre-arranged time, she went to John Lewis to collect her bag; the staff did not know anything about it so after about an hour or two of confusion, Jude went home. As she got home, she stepped inside and her house had been burgled- completely cleared out."
See the similarity? Those supposed thieves are very mobile. And why are they only targeting John Lewis?What part of "A whop bop-a-lu a whop bam boo" don't you understand?0 -
easily sorted, i've sent an email to john lewis asking them to confirm or deny that any of their staff were approached by a woman at any time who thought that their staff had phoned her regarding her lost handbag which they knew nothing about.
what is the betting IT DID NOT HAPPEN? :T0 -
trisontana wrote: »"It happened in Edinburgh and yes it was reported and how am I supposed to know the crime number? I didnt say it happened to me"
So at least two crimes at opposite ends of the country:-
"She got a phonecall the next day saying John Lewis, was told to come along and ask for Mr X, went along, told there wasnt a handbag there or anyone there by that name, got home and all her xmas presents (wrapped under her tree, ready to give out) and her tv etc were all gone. I can promise this was 100% true!"
"After a few days, Jude recieved a phone call supposedly from John Lewis saying they found her bag and asking when will she come and collect it. At the pre-arranged time, she went to John Lewis to collect her bag; the staff did not know anything about it so after about an hour or two of confusion, Jude went home. As she got home, she stepped inside and her house had been burgled- completely cleared out."
See the similarity? Those supposed thieves are very mobile. And why are they only targeting John Lewis?
because john lewis is an easily recognisable name which makes people believe it must be true in that case.0 -
twentypenceoff wrote: »easily sorted, i've sent an email to john lewis asking them to confirm or deny that any of their staff were approached by a woman at any time who thought that their staff had phoned her regarding her lost handbag which they knew nothing about.
what is the betting IT DID NOT HAPPEN? :T
Data protection means they may well not tell you anyway, either way.0 -
My wife left her handbag containing her satnav on the outside hook of a door to a public toilet and when she got home she discovered our house had been repossessed by a man named John Lewis.
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and it comes under Data Protection HOW?Flickering_Ember wrote: »Data protection means they may well not tell you anyway, either way.Don't put it DOWN; put it AWAY"I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness" Emily Dickinson
Janice 1964-2016
Thank you Honey Bear0
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