The Fake Euro Taxi Scam
Someone tried this on me last night.
A guy rang my bell about 10 last night. When he rang a second time, I opened the wiondow from upstairs and shouted down to him.
He said he’d just returned from France and had come to see my neighbour, who incidentally I’ve only met once and can’t remember his name. I’ve only met him the one time as he’s rarely there. My visitor said he’d only got euros for the taxi and could I change some. As there has been e-mails going round about people doing this and then leaving you with a batch of fake euros, I told him to go and try someone else. He seemed a well-turned out white guy of about twenty, and didn’t have fraudster tattooed across his forehead. But then if you want to con someone, the first thing you do is make it look feasible.
I did report the incident to the local police. It was a pity I didn’t photograph him though!
The joke was that if he had been genuine, I wouldn’t have been able to change his euros, as I only had a fiver in the house.
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