Re: Ingenious Scams
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take some t-bone steaks, go to the salad bar, fill up one of the styrofoam containers with steaks, adn ring yourself out on teh self-automated machines, and get 5lbs of steak for 3$
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In my area, this was a staple as kids at 7-11 with a slurpee cup and various items throughout the store. Get the biggest slurpee cup, fill it with loot, and then fill up the rest of the cup with slurpee. Pay for slurpee, have free candy.
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MANY years ago, as a kid, working at Best Buy... I came into work to find one of the long time employees being areested for theft.
HIS scam...
He would take a new $29 cassette deck ( which were huge then) from the backroom stock, carefully open it up from the bottom and remove the contents( and place it in the returned items pile, or just toss it in a dumpster. He would then load the box with high value items re-seal the box and place it on the sales floor.
His confederate would appear as a customer, approaoch this salesman, and after a short time be "sold" a cheap tape deck. Confederate would then take the box through the register, pay the 29 bucks and exit with hundreds of dollars worth of SLR's, radar detectors and such.
They estimated they were pulling this 3 times a week for almost 6 months.
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