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Old lady scammed.

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  • unforeseen
    unforeseen Posts: 7,403 Forumite
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    AndyPix wrote: »
    I dont bother with all the fiddly last bit.
    Once i've shoulder surfed the pin i just grab the whole handbag and run off


    It breaks up my usual week of drugging people, stealing their kidneys, and leaving them in hotel rooms in bathtubs of ice




    /urbanmyth

    Don't room service get suspicious about your constant requests for ice when filling the bath tub ?
  • owen_money
    owen_money Posts: 764 Forumite
    Its all well and good laughing, but a poor old lady lost £3k, i hope the bank refunds her
    One man's folly is another man's wife. Helen Roland (1876 - 1950)
  • AndyPix
    AndyPix Posts: 4,847 Forumite
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    ^^ The point is that she didnt


    This never happened


    It's just another urban myth the same as the stolen kidney one i was joking about
  • Le_Kirk
    Le_Kirk Posts: 24,865 Forumite
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    owen_money wrote: »
    Its all well and good laughing, but a poor old lady lost £3k, i hope the bank refunds her
    Can't work out if this is reality, sarcasm or totally misunderstanding that it was all a bunch of horse feathers.
  • waamo
    waamo Posts: 10,298 Forumite
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    She should have put her PIN in backwards.
  • DoaM
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    waamo wrote: »
    She should have put her PIN in backwards.

    But then she'd get a NIP! ;)
  • owen_money
    owen_money Posts: 764 Forumite
    Le_Kirk wrote: »
    Can't work out if this is reality, sarcasm or totally misunderstanding that it was all a bunch of horse feathers.

    Ill let you decide ;)
    One man's folly is another man's wife. Helen Roland (1876 - 1950)
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