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Two cash magicians confuse Walmart cashier out of $2100
liveleak.com ^ | 9/20/16

Posted on 09/25/2016 12:58:19 PM PDT by BBell

Two cash magicians confuse Walmart cashier out of $2100

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: conartist; conman; conmen; retail; scam; theft; walmart; walmartcashier
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This reminds of a scene out of one of my favorite movies:

"Paper Moon" Five and Ten

1 posted on 09/25/2016 12:58:19 PM PDT by BBell
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To: BBell

Amazing.


2 posted on 09/25/2016 1:02:02 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: BBell
Reminds me of an old Polish joke ...

Polish counterfeiter: "Can you give me change for an $18 bill?"

Polish "victim": "Sure -- would you like three 6's or two 9's?"

3 posted on 09/25/2016 1:02:39 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post.")
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To: BBell

A short change artist once tried it out on me. I made $35.


4 posted on 09/25/2016 1:02:40 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: BBell

I assumed they just expected them to make correct change from actual cash.


5 posted on 09/25/2016 1:06:47 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Alberta's Child
"Sure -- would you like three 6's or two 9's?"
My Dad used to tell that joke - except it was not so bright gangsters trying to scam hillbillies. He's been gone for nine years, thank you.
6 posted on 09/25/2016 1:10:00 PM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: Alberta's Child

lol


7 posted on 09/25/2016 1:13:15 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: BBell

In my youth while working at gas stations, con artists would try tricks but they didn’t work on me. I would take their bill(s), place it to the side on the cash register till out of their reach and then make change, counting it out on the counter. Too few kids count out money as change now, unfortunately. If the con artist tried anything, like saying they gave me a larger bill(s), I would point to their money still on the side of the till and show them I knew what they were up to. After they retreat, I stick their money in the cash register till. Sometimes I was working graveyard shift all alone, but had a .32 revolver under the counter to keep me company, given me by the boss.


8 posted on 09/25/2016 1:13:48 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: BBell

“My aunt gave me that! She wrote happy birthday on it!”


9 posted on 09/25/2016 1:14:11 PM PDT by sparklite2 (When they play the race card, play the Trump card.)
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To: roadcat

A friend of mine worked at a gas station. After a customer would leave, my friend would drain the gas pump hose into a can. The next customer would unwittingly pay for filling up the pump hose before any gas got into his tank. My friend ended up working for the FBI. LOL


10 posted on 09/25/2016 1:17:13 PM PDT by sparklite2 (When they play the race card, play the Trump card.)
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Something smells fishy here. Would a wal mart cash register have enough cash in it to make the loss of $2,100 not obvious. That’s 105 $20 bills. I don’t think a register is big enough to hold that many 20s. And I don’t think they keep 20 Benjamins in there either. Either this cashier has a sub freezing IQ, or she was in on it.


11 posted on 09/25/2016 1:18:38 PM PDT by sharkhawk (Here come the Hawks, the mighty Black Hawks)
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To: sparklite2
Paper Moon (1973) - Money Tricks

I love that movie!

12 posted on 09/25/2016 1:20:55 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: sharkhawk

Or the ‘reporter’ misplaced a decimal. Maybe the actual amount stolen was $210.00, not $2100.00.
But who’s going to click for info on your basic $210. robbery, even from Walmart?


13 posted on 09/25/2016 1:24:27 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: sharkhawk

Yeah. It’s doubtful they would have that much cash in the register.


14 posted on 09/25/2016 1:27:42 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: roadcat

Was it a good ole’ H&R .32? One of the best inexpensive guns ever made.


15 posted on 09/25/2016 1:27:51 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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They must be Congressmen.


16 posted on 09/25/2016 1:30:09 PM PDT by Defiant (The Koran is the Mohammunist Manifesto.)
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To: Defiant

No, Congressmen go for wallets.


17 posted on 09/25/2016 1:30:52 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: sharkhawk
I was thinking the same thing. When the till gets too much money in it, the manager comes and takes some away.

$2,100 sounds like a lot to have in the till.

18 posted on 09/25/2016 1:32:43 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: BBell

Before I looked at the video, I was almost certain that the cashier had to be in on it, but he was very slick, repeatedly asking to break larger bills, confused the heck out of her.

The $2,100.00 was taken by two individuals running the scam on multiple transactions over a short period, as I understood the report. One register isn’t likely to have $2,100.00 in it at any given time, I don’t think.


19 posted on 09/25/2016 1:32:56 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: BBell

This age old scam was run on my dad’s old business from time to time...they never got me, but from time to time they would nail one of our help....even though we would train some of those kids to watch for this situation.


20 posted on 09/25/2016 1:42:40 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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