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scumbag rip off in car park @square today

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  • 22-06-2006 8:05pm
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    dave101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 360 ✭✭


    saw a guy kicking a car as it pulled away.
    red ford escort van type.
    laptop rip off scam.more like a load of argos books or a brick lol

    how do people fall for it.
    i heard of this happening before,
    has anyone had this happen to them?


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    #2
    28064212
    Registered Users Posts: 10,496 ✭✭✭✭28064212


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    condra
    Registered Users Posts: 3,849 ✭✭✭condra


    scumbags.

    bet they were travellers.

    Oh am I allowed say that?


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    qz
    Registered Users Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭qz


    womoma wrote:
    scumbags.

    bet they were travellers.

    Oh am I allowed say that?

    No, pikeys is more apt.


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    KdjaCL
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    Last 3 times i been offered some argos cats it was Traveller/Romanian/Dublin


    Ask to hold the laptop and then look underneath where the manaufacturing info is and say "ahhh its from 1999" and offer him a score for it.



    And if anyone finds themselves offered one in an area they know very well and manages to get their hands on the laptop and leggit i will pay your medical bills if reqd (slow people will only need them) :D



    kdjac


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    TerrorFirmer
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    Anyone who actually hands over money in this fashion nearly deserves it to happen, height of stupidity


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    #7
    imeddyhobbs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭imeddyhobbs


    shop @ dundrum


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    #8
    rabbitinlights
    Registered Users Posts: 4,002 ✭✭✭rabbitinlights


    Wallet inspector.........


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    #9
    majiktripp
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    An idiot and his money are easily parted,it would appear to ring true.


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    #10
    s8n
    Registered Users Posts: 3,833 ✭✭✭s8n


    Is this scam still kicking around ?


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    ShiverinEskimo
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 18,115 ✭✭✭✭ShiverinEskimo


    There was a guy came on posting about how he had been caught. They showed him the laptop and leaned into the car and made a switch to an identical bag filled with catalogs. He handed over in excess of 500 notes i think. And came on here complaining and wondering what he can do.

    Some crazy folk out there.


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    dave101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 360 ✭✭dave101


    greed on behalf of the buyer and not thinking hwey this could be some poor fookers laptop


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    DamoKen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭DamoKen


    dave101 wrote:
    greed on behalf of the buyer and not thinking hwey this could be some poor fookers laptop

    exactly, no sympathy to be honest. How could anyone think it was anything but stolen if the guy offering it to you is 1/dodgy as fook, 2/offering it in a carpark, and 3/offering it for a quarter of the retail price.


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    tom_ass19
    Registered Users Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭tom_ass19


    something simular happend...i was in town one night in a put n got talking to this guy, he ended up telling me that he had stolen this laptop n i told him previously that i was doing computers in college like n he was giving me 50euro to as he said "make it look new" i jus laughed at him n walked off.....i rly needed that fifty aswell..lol


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    #15
    inode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 578 ✭✭✭inode


    our knacks are still selling watches and "bling" from argos lol. they havent advanced to laptops yet


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