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80 Comments on “Real Life Scam: Change Raising”

  1. somtimes by askin cashiers to change a £20 note can result in failure of this scam, because the cashier might give you 2 £10 notes, if this happens the scam is over instantly. To get around this , buy somthing for exactly £1 with a £20 note to save confusing yourself. By doing this, your pretty much guaranteeing the cashier will give you: 2 £5’s and 9 £1’s. or  £10, £5 and 4 £1’s in change. when you recieve your £19 change, kindly and polietly ask if they can change the £9 from the £19 they gave you for a £10 note. They will say somthing to this affect ” you have only given me £9″ quickly apologise and offer the £1 change to makeup £10 THEN add another £10 note to the bundle of change and ask for a straight £20 note and ironically say ” to save confusion :P” 99% of the time they will hand you the £20 note without concern or suspicion. Wella £9 gained. Do this 5 – 6 times a day and you have a profit of around £55.

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    1. I dont see how that scam earns you £9??
      You gave cashier £9+£1 to make it up to 10. Then added another £10 note to ask for a £20 note in return. That checks out. Youve swapped the cashier £10 coins and £10 note for £20. No scam there surely?

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    2. because the £9+£1 is the change for the original 10, you’re supposed to give them it, then you give them two £10s for a 20

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    3. PS2Damon nah but in this scenario, the scammer is giving the barman or whatever £9 in change, then £1 and ADDING another £10 to it. So in total he is handing him £20 and asking for a 20 note…

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    4. so 1:46 he gives the 9
      he declares that he wants his 10 back at 2:06
      currently the cashier is short 1 dollar because she gave him a 10 note
      2:08 on the table there is 10 pounds, that should have gone in the drawer for the 10 that she gave back, because she got 9 instead of 10
      2:09 he hands her another 10 pound note, now if she gives the 20 note away then she will be short 10 because she doesn’t ave the first half of the 20, which would be the change she only has the 10 he gave her. the change she has is not included as half of the 20.

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    5. PS2Damon i know haha. I know how he did the scam, im saying the commenters scenario wouldnt scam anyone. It would be correct change haha

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    3. LiliNemzer bossman will chase you out with a machete, old lady will show you her wrinkly fanny and give you more money

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    4. In the US at Wal-mart, this scam alone caused all Wal-mart stores to ONLY make change at the customer service desks and not at registers.

      The way you beat this con is to get back the original money EVERY TIME before you make change. Keep the original amount at all times within your possession. So when the guy asks for the 10 for the paper money and change, you say sure, but let me have the full amount back and we will go from there.

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  4. The scam might work on me , but no way I’ll let someone get me in such a hastle without buying anything…

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    1. Indeed Marc! You nailed it. That’s what makes this scam so good is the timing of it. The point in between the two transactions is the problem. Your advice on how to avoid it is perfect, because of it being a hard to detect scam while it is happening. 

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    2. +MrBilld75 Yes, especially when it’s busy, and when the scammer (or an accomplice) attempts to distract you with other things.
      I got scammed 300 by this before. It hurt.

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    3. +Andrew Ng Ouch! $300, that’s a chunk to lose for sure. I would not be happy about that either. Not at all! I understand what you are saying though. My wife sells jewelry and sometimes we have yard sales to get rid of extra stuff and have had people attempt distraction type shoplifting before. Lucky there are usually 2 sets of eyes (mine and hers) and they have rarely succeeded but that does not stop them from trying to see if they can pull it off. 

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    1. 1. He gave her 20, so she has +20.
      She gave him 20, so she is at 0 (even).

      2. He gives her 9, so she has +9.
      And she gives him 10, so she is at -1.

      3. He gives her 11, so she is now at +10.
      And she gives him his original 20, so she is at -10.

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    1. This scam happened to me my first week at my first job.. Didn’t lose my job but lost 50 pounds. Lesson: NEVER change money, even with 80 years old people or kids!

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    5. +jairtzinio I’m also a cashier. People try this on me all the time. Easy to prevent. Just play dumb! I say “I’m not doing that, I’ll get confused. No I can’t, I’m really easily confused!” Works every time. Bloody counterfeiters tricked me though lol

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  8. I’m more surprised she didn’t notice the dude in black with a massive camera attached to his shoulder…

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  9. This happened to me today. I can’t believe I was stupid enough to fall for it. Wish I saw this video earlier. He was talking really fast and at one point I got really confused. So angry at myself!!!!

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    1. Has happened to the company I work for like 5 times… because they work in groups as well so change people, but it isn’t low amounts, the guys want an exchange for £200 and we lose out on £100. It’s different than this scam in the way they handle the money though, they have their fingers placed in a weird way so that when giving the money they flip some cash quickly into one hand and put it in their pocket. Now we’re just making the policy for no exchanges unless it is a small amount.

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    4. happened to me the other day, I am pissed off because the guy actually bought something and he seemed like a really nice guy we had a good chat

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  10. A guy tried this on me at a restaurant back in 2000.  I knew he was creating confusion.  As soon as I felt uncertain,  I called a stop to everything and reset our transaction from the beginning.  He was frustrated and clearly pissed off.  I didn’t know when or how I was going to lose but I knew there was a mental shuffle going on so I took back all the change I had given him, handed him back his original money and said let’s start again.  I had seen this happen in movies but still couldn’t quite follow it.  He was an older guy on a date with a woman. The other tipoff was the confidential inaudible murmur to the woman.  Body language and smirks, like he was saying “Watch this.” and preparing to impress with her with a trick.  She gave him the admiring “Ooo, aren’t you the clever alpha male?”  look and quietly sat back to watch the show.  Since paying the bill was the only activity in play and I was going to be the butt of whatever he had in mind, I was forewarned.  The proof was in his face when I brought it to a stop.  He didn’t tip.

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    2. man some guy at a store i work at (big chain store) did that to me but on a much larger scale (with £50 notes) and made my till short of £267!! i feel so embarrassed that I was caught out so badly.. probably gonna get in big trouble for it too

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  11. some guy tired this on me today. I’ve heard about this scam before. generally our store policy is we don’t change cash.
    anyway the guy came in and bought something for £2 and paid with a £10 note. I told him I only have coins and no £5 notes. So i gave him £8 change in coins. he then realized that he had a £2 coin so he added that to the £8 change and asked me to change it for £10 note while the till was open. which I did.

    however this is when he tried to scam me. he gave me the coins while i was getting the £10 note and he tried to confuse me by messing around getting the coins out and handing them me then waiting for me to count the coins. then with the coins still in my hand and the £10 note he said ohhh wait if you have my £10 note (which had just come out of the till) along with the coins you can change it for a £20. it sounds easy to spot written down but It happened very quickly and he was very distracting.

    i knew something wasn’t right and took a second to think about it. i told him that i’m only giving you £10 note for the £2 plus the £8 change. he got angry and started shouting saying i owned him £20 then he gave up and stormed off only getting a £10 note.

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    3. JCDenton Jesus Christ mate had the exact same thing happen to me today at work and he started yelling at me when I called the manager. But it was a little too late as I was not aware of the scam until now… i know it’s not my money but I lost sleep over it and stressed out so much kicking myself ?

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  13. “He’s actually stealing ten pounds from the shop.”
    No, he is not. He is getting the woman to voluntarily give him money, and he isn’t even using false pretenses to get the money.
    Yeah, it’s a scam, but it isn’t stealing.

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    2. Yes, it is. Using false pretenses to get money is fraud, for which you can go to gaol. What is considered “voluntary” all depends on what the parties involved are actually volunteering to do in order for the transaction to be consentual. She was volunteering to make change for 20, and he defrauded her into something different. On the other hand, if he straight out said, “could you give me 30 quid for 20?” and she was dumb enough to agree, then all would be fair.

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    5. And you can voluntarily not resist arrest and not get shot and enjoy some time in a very small room. It isn’t punishment, it’s relaxation.

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  20. This actually happend to me. I used to work at BP gas station in south east london. I and several of my collegues got hustled like that. But its easy to spot if the store is not busy. But what they do in south east london is come to the store during a busy hour when there is long ques and people are in a hurry to get back to work from their lunch break. Because of that the cashiers are forced to work fast. So the scammers take advantage of that and confuse you during the busy period. Most cashier people get flustered and stressed when this sort of thing happens, as they need to serve the customers quickly and politely. Thus the scam is more easier to pull off during busy hours.

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