Handbag Theft Scam

twentypenceoff

yorksrabbit wrote: »

I have to pop next door to help my neighbour, newly arrived from a family holiday ruined by the untimely death of his mother-in-law. They had no travel insurance so he's had to bring the body all the way back from Brittany on the roof-rack.

Let that be a warning to others.

i am so sorry to hear that, did she go the theatre there and accidently sit on a needle?

PopeSock

twentypenceoff wrote: »

i am so sorry to hear that, did she go the theatre there and accidently sit on a needle?

And if you thought that was traumatic, just wait till they find that their previously buried rabbit's corpse is now washed and in its old hutch.

sarahg1969

Come on, OP. Don't keep us in suspense till tomorrow.
Give your sister a ring today and tell us more!

Freddie_Snowbits

http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/handbag.asp

The story may be bull, but the methods have been used.

yorksrabbit

Well, my neighbour popped round last night because the formaldehyde fumes were getting to him. (This is all true.) He gave me the details of what happened. Whilst on holiday they went with some French friends to see a play at a local theatre and his mother-in-law sat on a poisoned needle intended for the French president (who didn't turn up.)

It was devastating for all concerned because their French friends were still in shock from discovering that their recently deceased pet rabbit had been exhumed and laundered and popped back in his hutch. (This is all true.)

As my neighbour was leaving he alerted me to a new scam doing the rounds: if you visit certain Internet websites they install a kind of software microphone on your computer which uses all the wiring in your home to record conversations.

So now I've just logged on and two posts have appeared here from MI 6 officers pretending to be MSErs called twentypenceoff and popesock. The only way they could have known about the needle and the rabbit was because of the listening device in my house.

I am going to have to re-wire everything myself because whichever electrician I ring will either be a spy or a burglar, it's the way they operate. Of course, I will never visit the 10 Downing Street website ever again.

Pass it on. This is all true.

twentypenceoff

PopeSock wrote: »

And if you thought that was traumatic, just wait till they find that their previously buried rabbit's corpse is now washed and in its old hutch.

it got wet in the rain and they put it in the microwave to dry, i heard, thats what killed it.

yorksrabbit

Oh look, the two MI 6 people are talking to each other. What a giveaway.

twentypenceoff

yorksrabbit wrote: »

Oh look, the two MI 6 people are talking to each other. What a giveaway.

just to clarify, popesock is not a fully fledged mi 6 agent, that wont happen till he/she drives around all night with their car lights off then gets flashed by a car driven by a member of the public warning them that their lights are off, who they will then have kill as part of the secret iitiation rites.

Amanda

What's an iitiation rite lol?

I haven't gone away!

twentypenceoff

yorksrabbit wrote: »

Well, my neighbour popped round last night because the formaldehyde fumes were getting to him. (This is all true.) He gave me the details of what happened. Whilst on holiday they went with some French friends to see a play at a local theatre and his mother-in-law sat on a poisoned needle intended for the French president (who didn't turn up.)

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this is a warning to always take a dictionary on holdiay if only the poor woman had been able to read the note taped to the back of the seat which read, in French "welcome to the poisoned needle club!" she would never have sat on it!!!!!!!!

tell all your friends especailly when so many are going abroad at this time of year!!!!!