Whats the biggest con you've pulled?

faceman

Ive realised that my cons are pretty tame.

* Faked a mate's death for a day
* me and 2 mates pretended we worked for bank of ireland to get into a free bar. (we knew nobody there)
* pretended that I was 10 years older than i was to pick up a chick with big boobs. I was 20 she was 32.

anyone any good stories?

Proxy

I've pretended to go to college for four years, now i'm doing a masters. Shh, nobody's copped it yet....:D

Sarky

Itzacon \o/

afatbollix

i con ed a huge sporting event into thinking that i wrote for a newspaper.... even tho i was 17 and dyslectic and could brealy write.... got loads of free stuff witch involved them putting me up in a hotel for 3 nights, media passes to all areas... a sticker for my car so i could park everywhere, meals.. and the rormal like pens paper maps etc etc and a few funny looks going into the media room after everyday.... going to do the same thing in the new year to get a full year media pass... witch works for most events....

Rb

The greatest con I ever pulled was convincing the world I don't exist

englishineire

I'm the real Bond, have retired and come to Ireland. Ahh bollox, the secret's out now

BlitzKrieg

my ex housemate faked his death and ran off to america.

BlitzKrieg

BlitzKrieg wrote:

my ex housemate faked his death and ran off to america.

why would someone do that or more importantly would they get away with it:D

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Me and a mate told a lot of people that another friend of ours got stabbed. We hadnt seen him all summer so when he came back to school everyone was really concerned about him.

Well it was funny at the time.

pbsuxok1znja4r

My greatest con? You'll never know. And that's what makes it the greatest.

Dan133269

scouser.tommy wrote:

My greatest con? You'll never know. And that's what makes it the greatest.

You're not really a scouser at all are you? You're probably from Manchester or somewhere

User45701

I manipulated everyone to think that nothing was going on when in fact i had come so unbelievably close to taking over the world its not funny and noone even knew it was me...

Binomate

I got my Dad to sit my leaving cert. for me.*





*This is probably bullshit.

TerrorFirmer

Binomate wrote:

I got my Dad to sit my leaving cert. for me.

Not a patch on that time you beat up an auld fella and tried to let him take the rap for starting it with the cops though, yeah?

il gatto

Rigged a quiz in a pub. Then chatted up the girl I'd beaten. Prize was £200. My cut was £80. Class.
A friend of mine dropped out of Trinity in first year after two months. Went back on another course, dropped out after two weeks, didn't tell his parents. He spent the year in the cinema, the Museums and shopping. Doesn't sound like much of a con till you hear that he was living in an appartment with his father. He'd get the DART into town, watch a film in the Savoy, go home after lunch and watch T.V. When his father got home, he'd make it look like he just got in. Lazy, but brilliant:D

Lump

My lawer has advised me to remove this incriminating evidence

John

Mr Magnolia

I'm constantly doing the old 'Heads I win, tails you lose.' Very seldom get caught.
I'll have to think of the biggest con though..

Rhyme

rb_ie wrote:

The greatest con I ever pulled was convincing the world I don't exist

Quiet Satan... your kind ain't welcome no more ¬_¬

empirix

Lump wrote:

I faked my leaving cert results to get into college (In england).... it worked, three years later I have a degree. Amazing what you can do with a scanner and photoshop.

John

hmmm - i done this the old school way - photocopier. But i went one better, i just studied for a diploma for 3 years, i just couldn't do the extra 2 years for the degree, was sick of being broke, 8 years later and after working in Australia, Singapore, Bangkok, Brussels, London, Dublin - nobody wants to see my photocopy anymore - 30 mins gone down the drain.

Degsy

I bought a bottle of beer in a pub,necked it,filled the bottle up with slop from a dead pint,brought it up to the bar said "this tastes crap mate" and got a fresh bottle.

Heisenberg.

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Tar.Aldarion

Just geting 1, 500e out of an asshole landlord. Felt good.

Binomate

HavoK wrote:

Not a patch on that time you beat up an auld fella and tried to let him take the rap for starting it with the cops though, yeah?

How could I forget?

jaggeh

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Just geting 1, 500e out of a landlords asshole. Felt good.

MQFT

Zapho

The Scientist wrote:

My mate sarah pulled this huge guy before about 16st, im pretty sure his name was Con.


T.Sc.

kevmy

rb_ie wrote:

The greatest con I ever pulled was convincing the world I don't exist

Hey give me back my sig

Tar.Aldarion

jaggeh wrote:

MQFT

The things I would do for 1, 500e...

xha1r

empirix wrote:

hmmm - i done this the old school way - photocopier. But i went one better, i just studied for a diploma for 3 years, i just couldn't do the extra 2 years for the degree, was sick of being broke, 8 years later and after working in Australia, Singapore, Bangkok, Brussels, London, Dublin - nobody wants to see my photocopy anymore - 30 mins gone down the drain.

If one were, hypothetically, attempt to get into College using forged LC results; how would it be done?

exCrumlinBoyo

When we were teenagers in secondary school we were asked to make a collection for the Irish Wheel Chair Association. The school gave up some buckets and tins and expected a small scale fundraiser. The gave us a letter stating we were collecting on behalf of the school.

So we knew we could make a few quid out of this by going door to door and collecting. We decided we would keep 70% and we would give the school back 30% so they could give to the Irish Wheel Chair Association. So we started on a Friday evening and made a few quid going door to door. It was not as much as we expected. Someone then mentioned why we don’t go to the pubs in Crumlin Villiage. Great idea we thought. Went to each pub, showed the bar manager our letter and made a killing big time. We hit 4 or 5 pubs and make about 600 Irish Pound at the time. We were over the moon. We hit the pubs again on the Saturday night and made another few hundred quid. Someone again mentioned that there was no one scheduled for the church gates on Sunday and if we go and talk with the busy body in the parish hall, show her our letter, it should not be a problem.

So there we were 6:45 am on Sunday morning getting permission to collect, which we did no problem. This time we invested in big buckets and there was 4 of us. We hit all the masses that morning and afternoon and made a killing.

At this stage, not realizing how successful the collection would be at the beginning I was feeling guilty. The guilt really kicked in when this old guy coming out of church, must have been about 85 years old, almost ready for a wheel chair him self, threw in a 20 pound note into my bucket. That was it I said to me self, I was like mister you don’t have to give that much, here have some change, so he was not hearing any of it.

In the end, we make about 1400 Irish pounds that weekend, we gave the school 400 and we kept the 1000 between 4 of us.

We would also rig the spot the ball cards. We would pull out the first few threads and find out where the ball was and sow it back up, and see each panel putting some oul’wans name down the road on it. That was very profitable I tell you.

To this day I still feel guilty about it, but hey I was a young entrepreneur….

Splinter

exCrumlinBoyo wrote:

When we were teenagers in secondary school we were asked to make a collection for the Irish Wheel Chair Association. The school gave up some buckets and tins and expected a small scale fundraiser. The gave us a letter stating we were collecting on behalf of the school.

So we knew we could make a few quid out of this by going door to door and collecting. We decided we would keep 70% and we would give the school back 30% so they could give to the Irish Wheel Chair Association. So we started on a Friday evening and made a few quid going door to door. It was not as much as we expected. Someone then mentioned why we don’t go to the pubs in Crumlin Villiage. Great idea we thought. Went to each pub, showed the bar manager our letter and made a killing big time. We hit 4 or 5 pubs and make about 600 Irish Pound at the time. We were over the moon. We hit the pubs again on the Saturday night and made another few hundred quid. Someone again mentioned that there was no one scheduled for the church gates on Sunday and if we go and talk with the busy body in the parish hall, show her our letter, it should not be a problem.

So there we were 6:45 am on Sunday morning getting permission to collect, which we did no problem. This time we invested in big buckets and there was 4 of us. We hit all the masses that morning and afternoon and made a killing.

At this stage, not realizing how successful the collection would be at the beginning I was feeling guilty. The guilt really kicked in when this old guy coming out of church, must have been about 85 years old, almost ready for a wheel chair him self, threw in a 20 pound note into my bucket. That was it I said to me self, I was like mister you don’t have to give that much, here have some change, so he was not hearing any of it.

In the end, we make about 1400 Irish pounds that weekend, we gave the school 400 and we kept the 1000 between 4 of us.

We would also rig the spot the ball cards. We would pull out the first few threads and find out where the ball was and sow it back up, and see each panel putting some oul’wans name down the road on it. That was very profitable I tell you.

To this day I still feel guilty about it, but hey I was a young entrepreneur….

ouch...major guilttrip for life there boyo

exCrumlinBoyo

splinter wrote:

ouch...major guilttrip for life there boyo

The chatloic church have not gotten to me that bad, sometimes I will think about it and feel bad, it definatly done not consume me at all... just feel bad for the old fella give over the 20...

JohnCleary

exCrumlinBoyo wrote:

When we were teenagers in secondary school we were asked to make a collection for the Irish Wheel Chair Association. The school gave up some buckets and tins and expected a small scale fundraiser. The gave us a letter stating we were collecting on behalf of the school.

So we knew we could make a few quid out of this by going door to door and collecting. We decided we would keep 70% and we would give the school back 30% so they could give to the Irish Wheel Chair Association. So we started on a Friday evening and made a few quid going door to door. It was not as much as we expected. Someone then mentioned why we don’t go to the pubs in Crumlin Villiage. Great idea we thought. Went to each pub, showed the bar manager our letter and made a killing big time. We hit 4 or 5 pubs and make about 600 Irish Pound at the time. We were over the moon. We hit the pubs again on the Saturday night and made another few hundred quid. Someone again mentioned that there was no one scheduled for the church gates on Sunday and if we go and talk with the busy body in the parish hall, show her our letter, it should not be a problem.

So there we were 6:45 am on Sunday morning getting permission to collect, which we did no problem. This time we invested in big buckets and there was 4 of us. We hit all the masses that morning and afternoon and made a killing.

At this stage, not realizing how successful the collection would be at the beginning I was feeling guilty. The guilt really kicked in when this old guy coming out of church, must have been about 85 years old, almost ready for a wheel chair him self, threw in a 20 pound note into my bucket. That was it I said to me self, I was like mister you don’t have to give that much, here have some change, so he was not hearing any of it.

In the end, we make about 1400 Irish pounds that weekend, we gave the school 400 and we kept the 1000 between 4 of us.

We would also rig the spot the ball cards. We would pull out the first few threads and find out where the ball was and sow it back up, and see each panel putting some oul’wans name down the road on it. That was very profitable I tell you.

To this day I still feel guilty about it, but hey I was a young entrepreneur….

You're going straight to hell, soon I hope

exCrumlinBoyo

JohnCleary wrote:

You're going straight to hell, soon I hope

Why would you wish such a thing?

Dooom

So many, can't really list them all. Most were just little things. One of more costly ones being scamming my brother out of €1500 for myself. Worked well at the time, but it's sucking now (see Dylan? I feel bad! Giz a 360 for xmas...).

Black Swan

Acting as if I knew what I was doing in my current work. Shhhhhhhh! Don't tell anyone!

chamlis

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

Acting as if I knew what I was doing in my current work. Shhhhhhhh! Don't tell anyone!

Ai. I hear that....

JohnCleary

Spike wrote:

So many, can't really list them all. Most were just little things. One of more costly ones being scamming my brother out of €1500 for myself. Worked well at the time, but it's sucking now (see Dylan? I feel bad! Giz a 360 for xmas...).

You conned.. your own BROTHER? Holy sh1t man ye are all a crowd of cnuts, this thread has made me feel like a much better person

netwhizkid

In Secondary School I was betted £20 (four fellas lunch money £5 each) I wouldn't have the balls to take on the 5th year big fella who was about 6ft 2". I accepted the challenge being a first year at the time and on my second or third week into the Secondary School.

Anway I called the big brute aside and offered to split the money with him if he'd let me knock him to the ground and win!! He agreed and offered to push me over at lunch to get out spat going naturally he did. I told him we'd sort it out after the bell and I went to take him on with a large group of gawkers and scrap scrap etc. going on! I pretended to not want to take him on saying I'm not going at him even if I was paid.

Then the other fools started flying in with bets. Then I accepted and knocked him to the ground. I got my money about £25 it turned out be and split it evenly with yer man and we became good buddy's for the rest of the school year until he left for college. That was my greatest con I can say really.

shane86

Lump wrote:

My lawer has advised me to remove this incriminating evidence

John

You posted that from work didnt you?

Ya might want to PM the chap a few posts down and tell him to alter his quoted text.....

Heisenberg.

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racso1975

Financially it would as another poster said better to not post.....


People wise telling women i have worked with when i was younger that i love them just so i get to sleep with them and u would be amazed how often it worked

And if mrs racso reads this please note WHEN "I WAS YOUNGER" ergo you cannot hold this against me till the day i die. ask anybody. IPSO FACTO*



*I'm sure it is used out of context but do not correct me

bluto63

JohnCleary wrote:

You conned.. your own BROTHER? Holy sh1t man ye are all a crowd of cnuts, this thread has made me feel like a much better person

Same. Some of you seem like horrible people. Clever, but horrible...

Dooom

JohnCleary wrote:

You conned.. your own BROTHER? Holy sh1t man ye are all a crowd of cnuts, this thread has made me feel like a much better person

Ah well it wasn't conning as such, more of a "I swear to god I'll pay you back in a month" type thing that just dragged on for a while. Well that's the way I see it, and I'm sticking to it.

faceman

Jaysus some of you are looney! Im surprised no one claims to be married to 2 people at the same time!!

faceman

faceman wrote:

Jaysus some of you are looney! Im surprised no one claims to be married to 2 people at the same time!!

this is only page 3, give it time >.<

Sofaspud

faceman wrote:

Jaysus some of you are looney! Im surprised no one claims to be married to 2 people at the same time!!

Well now that you mention it . . .

Car Mad

faceman wrote:

Jaysus some of you are looney! Im surprised no one claims to be married to 2 people at the same time!!

all 3 of em asked me ok:D i cant help it:p i also pretend i know what im doing at work (dont say anything);)

Muzzy

Worked in bars for nearly six years and loved it but I always hated working for private parties, people would think that because they rented a room that they could act however well they pleased.

So, if a party consisted of muppets I would be working behind the bar and would take a Euro out of everyone's change from their round. Do it all night, it would build up into a couple hundred quid a night on top of my wages.

I'm not ashamed of it, only did it to ignorant muppets with no manners, I know that still doesn't make me right.

andrew

anto-t wrote:

i con ed a huge sporting event into thinking that i wrote for a newspaper.... even tho i was 17 and dyslectic and could brealy write.... got loads of free stuff witch involved them putting me up in a hotel for 3 nights, media passes to all areas... a sticker for my car so i could park everywhere, meals.. and the rormal like pens paper maps etc etc and a few funny looks going into the media room after everyday.... going to do the same thing in the new year to get a full year media pass... witch works for most events....

How'd you do that!? Tell us (or at least me) please!!!!

Capt'n Midnight

rb_ie wrote:

The greatest con I ever pulled was convincing the world I don't exist

But you don't exist

Capt'n Midnight

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

But you don't exist

or were you just wishing? lol