Best Charity Scam

This time of year seems to bring out the charity scams – I’ve had the Art students selling pictures to fund their studies around a few times but came across a variation last week. Young guy knocked on the door and gave me a piece of card stating his name (Zabrinksy I think) and he was deaf and dumb and selling his drawing to fund his studies. Almost pissed myself laughing – what’s the best scam anybody else has come across and did you fall for it?

if you like the drawing, and you buy it from the guy for a fair price, you get a drawing, he gets a bit of cash…..who’s been scammed?

The drawing are very expensive (£25-£100), unframed and he never did them – that’s what I call a scam. Let me know your address – I’ll send him round next time.

You know he didn’t do them?

Forgery expert are you?

You know he didn’t do them?

Forgery expert are you?

Just some brains

It is a known scam.

what’s the ‘charity’ aspect of the alleged ‘scam’?

what’s the ‘charity’ aspect of the alleged ‘scam’?

OK pedant – Any type of scam

I once bought a shot of aniseedy spirits, only to find there was no alcohol in it.

It was a scambuca.

I get a leaflet through my door asking for “unwanted clothing” so often that it’s borderline harassment. Seriously, they’re practically daily, always different details and ‘charities’, I can only think they take any clothes they get and recycle them into leaflets.

I got a flyer a little while ago from some Pakistani woo-peddler telling me in broken English that Sheikh Al-Hamzar or some such can help me with any black magic curses or disobedient womenfolk problems I might be having. That was a little disturbing.

I had someone knock on my door asking for clothes for the starving orphans.
Obviously a scam.
Anyone who fits I my clothes isn’t starving.

Beware of this one…………..

If a man comes to your door and says he is conducting a survey and asks you to show him your knob,

DO NOT SHOW HIM YOUR KNOB.

This is a scam.

He is only trying to see your knob.

Pass this around

This has happened to me 7 Christmases in a row & TBH, when he turned up again this year, I started to doubt it was a genuine survey

LOL @ Uplink.

Serious lol @ sxxc

Some funny posts. Uplink in particular.