March 29, 2023 • 7 mins
Have you ever been scammed or were you involved in a scam yourself?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Quest. Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We want to talk about scams who've been involved in.
I was been interviewed by an old friend of mine
the other day in the UK. We used to bell on
the same radio station together about fifteen years ago, and
he was reminding me about once about a guy who
called into my old radio show.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
It was a green grocer.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
You know, sometimes you're going to grocers and they got
like the organic stuff, and it's more expensive, isn't it.
And I've often wondered that they just chuck like a
handful of mud on that, you know, And did she
just come out there, you know, because it's always muddy
or ganny stuff, isn't it. You touch it half that
kind of dust on it, it's still ganny. Other like,
(00:38):
look at that the stuff that's clean he made in
a factory or lavoluntary or something. This shiny, it's sparkling. Anyway,
this green grocers said that whenever his mushrooms, the normal
unorganic mushrooms were about to turn, they used to go
all a bit manky and frayed. He would just get
his old talk board out and put organic on the
front of them. And chuck on another couple of bucks
on the people would he said. People would then come
(00:59):
in and the other day going those organing bessy more.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Easy scammed, don't we?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
So this morning I want to know about scams you've
been involved in, whether it's like something involved in at
school when you were younger, or as an adult scams
you've been involved in, Jackie boy, what about you?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Well, the kid one reminded me of an excursion we
went onto the zoo where one kid found out there
was a vending machine that wasn't taking money. You essentially
just had to hit what you wanted and a can
would come out. So we rotated away from the group
going to the toilet and were collecting cans until some
kids got too greedy and we had shirt full and.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Hoodies full of.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Solo and lyft, and then the teachers made us take
it to the front desk and put it back.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Wasn't it the best day ever? When you when you
went on the day trip somewhere? It was just just
the chaos that got involved.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Pat, Yes, Christian, Now Pat.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Tell us about the Big Toe Club.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
The Big Toe Club. I was playing. I played football,
so at the end of the game. But football were
in the having a shower and my big toe one
painted bright wreck and people are looking at me and
what's going on with the toe? I said, come and
talk to me later. That's a big toe club. So
later on the bloke comes up and goes, what's the
girl with the big toe club? And I said, look
cost you twenty dollars, there's lots of benefits, so no problems.
(02:16):
And he says, well what are the benefits? I can't
tell you for twenty four hours. So anyway, he pays
me twenty, goes home. You know, next weekend comes he's
got his big toe painted, and another bloke that I
got the same day, he's got his big toe painted.
So everyone in the shoff is trying to look around.
There there's three people with big toe clubs. So they
asked me, They say, so, what's the trick to what
(02:37):
are the benefits of the big toe club? I said, well,
now you can go and get someone to paint their
big toe and you can get your twenty dollars back
and maybe a little bit more. So I just kept
going and I've done it on every I played for
twenty four clubs around Australia. And I And when I
got to Calandra to play and Ronnie Wiimouth it's Collingwood
(02:59):
coach player was coach And next thing you know, he
comes in the change rooms and there's twelve people with
big toe club and he turned around and just looked
and me said, Pat in the office, I want to
talk to you now. Is we here to play football,
not to make money?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Got rumbles gone too many?
Speaker 5 (03:19):
I mean we've done it in Calbouley, Darwin Cans, We've
done it everywhere.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
The how gullible local regional football as a well.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
They are when you see it's a thing of what's
going on? You see one person.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
That comparamive scheme is actually very smart pant Yeah it was.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
It was look at silver, I've got my sunder start
doing it. When we started.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Playing Mafia Craze the Christian O'Connell show podcast, what's this game?
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Back in the day, we used to go to the
Bachelor and Spinster's Bowls Vness bawls, like a big party
out in the middle of a paddy They put a
band on and how you tickets for and then it's
pretty much all the alcohol you can have. But we
didn't want to pay for the tickets, so we would
go to the site where it was, find it place
to park, and they give you a wristband, like if
you go into a music festival or something. And then
(04:12):
we find someone who had the risks, who had already
paid for the ticket and been given a wristband, we'd
pull them aside, give them a couple of beers, and
then pulled the little toolkit out and decide to make
our own eight one hundred and twenty dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Wow, what changing other people to get in?
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Yeah, so you go there, they put a band on,
they'll cook a meal, like have a big spit rose
meal or something, or a barbecue, and it's all the
alcohol you can consume.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, well we've got that first time. And you think
you say that all the alcohol did?
Speaker 4 (04:43):
They still want to trade you their wristband for beers,
even though they n.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Everyone's drinking beers before and who's going to knock back
three beer?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
You're quite right? Who can resist such an offer? Nick,
thank you very much? You killed me. I have a
good day. That's a good on the show, Jody.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I'm good, Joe? How are you going?
Speaker 8 (05:01):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (05:01):
Not too bad? So I was a bit of a
smooth criminal when I was a couple of scams. Go
it on. Okay, So my first one, I'll start flowing,
then I'll work up to the big one. So my
first one, we used to have to just flash our
bus paths when we get on the bus. And so
what we used to do is flash the bus pass,
(05:22):
run up to the back of the bus, get a
couple of people to distract the bus driver while we
threw our pass out the window and handed it to
the next person who used it to get on the bus.
So no one really paid for their bus pass except
for one person just you know, mucking around up the
back of the bus, throwing food around and stuff like that.
(05:43):
You know, So the editing to make the bus driver
turn around and take his focus as well.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Now the most easy distracted people in the world bus
drivers bus drivers.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
And keeping in mind, this wasn't for money, this was
for popularity. So anyway, my second one was we used
to go for a Sunday drive to Ballarat and they
have a trash and treasure market there and they used
to sell all the old pennies and things like that.
So we used to buy like a whole whole handful,
like a big handful for fifty cents, and we take
(06:15):
them home and if you glue two together, color them
in with a gold texter, they look like a two
dollar cold. You used to take them to the canteen
and buy our hot jam donuts in the morning without
make a fellar.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
How often did the caunterbit pass?
Speaker 7 (06:31):
Well, we got away with them for over a year,
so I was a good year of hot jam and
a lot of friends. All I've never forgotten.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
No you won't.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Let's got a Vinnie good Vinnie, thanks for calling the show.
I hope you well, And what's your scam?
Speaker 8 (06:45):
All right? So basically back in high school, which was
like a good twelve years ago, more basically we had
yard duties, so you know, you go pick up rubbish
for today and as I thank you from the school
get you get a free drink and lunch. So basically
what they do they give you a piece of paper
saying that you've done yard duty, and you take it
to the canteen and you basically get free food. So
(07:06):
I can't all of the idea that I'll go home
jumping Microsoft. We're type up the same thing and basically
laminate it but basically my mates and myself will just
scam me it and we're just getting free lunch. I
reckon a good at least thirty times or so.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
And then what happened? When did you get rumbled? When
was the scam?
Speaker 8 (07:25):
I didn't really get like like we've sort of thought,
you know, we'll take your break because a canteen ladyhoire
looking at us and they're like, geez, you're picking up
a lot of run. So, yeah, we bought, will probably
stop justification.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
That we got caught.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yeah, finish on top.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Well well Christian Connell's Show podcast
Quest. Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We want to talk about scams who've been involved in.
I was been interviewed by an old friend of mine
the other day in the UK. We used to bell on
the same radio station together about fifteen years ago, and
he was reminding me about once about a guy who
called into my old radio show.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
It was a green grocer.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
You know, sometimes you're going to grocers and they got
like the organic stuff, and it's more expensive, isn't it.
And I've often wondered that they just chuck like a
handful of mud on that, you know, And did she
just come out there, you know, because it's always muddy
or ganny stuff, isn't it. You touch it half that
kind of dust on it, it's still ganny. Other like,
(00:38):
look at that the stuff that's clean he made in
a factory or lavoluntary or something. This shiny, it's sparkling. Anyway,
this green grocers said that whenever his mushrooms, the normal
unorganic mushrooms were about to turn, they used to go
all a bit manky and frayed. He would just get
his old talk board out and put organic on the
front of them. And chuck on another couple of bucks
on the people would he said. People would then come
(00:59):
in and the other day going those organing bessy more.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Easy scammed, don't we?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
So this morning I want to know about scams you've
been involved in, whether it's like something involved in at
school when you were younger, or as an adult scams
you've been involved in, Jackie boy, what about you?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Well, the kid one reminded me of an excursion we
went onto the zoo where one kid found out there
was a vending machine that wasn't taking money. You essentially
just had to hit what you wanted and a can
would come out. So we rotated away from the group
going to the toilet and were collecting cans until some
kids got too greedy and we had shirt full and.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Hoodies full of.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Solo and lyft, and then the teachers made us take
it to the front desk and put it back.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Wasn't it the best day ever? When you when you
went on the day trip somewhere? It was just just
the chaos that got involved.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Pat, Yes, Christian, Now Pat.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Tell us about the Big Toe Club.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
The Big Toe Club. I was playing. I played football,
so at the end of the game. But football were
in the having a shower and my big toe one
painted bright wreck and people are looking at me and
what's going on with the toe? I said, come and
talk to me later. That's a big toe club. So
later on the bloke comes up and goes, what's the
girl with the big toe club? And I said, look
cost you twenty dollars, there's lots of benefits, so no problems.
(02:16):
And he says, well what are the benefits? I can't
tell you for twenty four hours. So anyway, he pays
me twenty, goes home. You know, next weekend comes he's
got his big toe painted, and another bloke that I
got the same day, he's got his big toe painted.
So everyone in the shoff is trying to look around.
There there's three people with big toe clubs. So they
asked me, They say, so, what's the trick to what
(02:37):
are the benefits of the big toe club? I said, well,
now you can go and get someone to paint their
big toe and you can get your twenty dollars back
and maybe a little bit more. So I just kept
going and I've done it on every I played for
twenty four clubs around Australia. And I And when I
got to Calandra to play and Ronnie Wiimouth it's Collingwood
(02:59):
coach player was coach And next thing you know, he
comes in the change rooms and there's twelve people with
big toe club and he turned around and just looked
and me said, Pat in the office, I want to
talk to you now. Is we here to play football,
not to make money?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Got rumbles gone too many?
Speaker 5 (03:19):
I mean we've done it in Calbouley, Darwin Cans, We've
done it everywhere.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
The how gullible local regional football as a well.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
They are when you see it's a thing of what's
going on? You see one person.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
That comparamive scheme is actually very smart pant Yeah it was.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
It was look at silver, I've got my sunder start
doing it. When we started.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Playing Mafia Craze the Christian O'Connell show podcast, what's this game?
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Back in the day, we used to go to the
Bachelor and Spinster's Bowls Vness bawls, like a big party
out in the middle of a paddy They put a
band on and how you tickets for and then it's
pretty much all the alcohol you can have. But we
didn't want to pay for the tickets, so we would
go to the site where it was, find it place
to park, and they give you a wristband, like if
you go into a music festival or something. And then
(04:12):
we find someone who had the risks, who had already
paid for the ticket and been given a wristband, we'd
pull them aside, give them a couple of beers, and
then pulled the little toolkit out and decide to make
our own eight one hundred and twenty dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Wow, what changing other people to get in?
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Yeah, so you go there, they put a band on,
they'll cook a meal, like have a big spit rose
meal or something, or a barbecue, and it's all the
alcohol you can consume.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, well we've got that first time. And you think
you say that all the alcohol did?
Speaker 4 (04:43):
They still want to trade you their wristband for beers,
even though they n.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Everyone's drinking beers before and who's going to knock back
three beer?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
You're quite right? Who can resist such an offer? Nick,
thank you very much? You killed me. I have a
good day. That's a good on the show, Jody.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I'm good, Joe? How are you going?
Speaker 8 (05:01):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (05:01):
Not too bad? So I was a bit of a
smooth criminal when I was a couple of scams. Go
it on. Okay, So my first one, I'll start flowing,
then I'll work up to the big one. So my
first one, we used to have to just flash our
bus paths when we get on the bus. And so
what we used to do is flash the bus pass,
(05:22):
run up to the back of the bus, get a
couple of people to distract the bus driver while we
threw our pass out the window and handed it to
the next person who used it to get on the bus.
So no one really paid for their bus pass except
for one person just you know, mucking around up the
back of the bus, throwing food around and stuff like that.
(05:43):
You know, So the editing to make the bus driver
turn around and take his focus as well.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Now the most easy distracted people in the world bus
drivers bus drivers.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
And keeping in mind, this wasn't for money, this was
for popularity. So anyway, my second one was we used
to go for a Sunday drive to Ballarat and they
have a trash and treasure market there and they used
to sell all the old pennies and things like that.
So we used to buy like a whole whole handful,
like a big handful for fifty cents, and we take
(06:15):
them home and if you glue two together, color them
in with a gold texter, they look like a two
dollar cold. You used to take them to the canteen
and buy our hot jam donuts in the morning without
make a fellar.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
How often did the caunterbit pass?
Speaker 7 (06:31):
Well, we got away with them for over a year,
so I was a good year of hot jam and
a lot of friends. All I've never forgotten.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
No you won't.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Let's got a Vinnie good Vinnie, thanks for calling the show.
I hope you well, And what's your scam?
Speaker 8 (06:45):
All right? So basically back in high school, which was
like a good twelve years ago, more basically we had
yard duties, so you know, you go pick up rubbish
for today and as I thank you from the school
get you get a free drink and lunch. So basically
what they do they give you a piece of paper
saying that you've done yard duty, and you take it
to the canteen and you basically get free food. So
(07:06):
I can't all of the idea that I'll go home
jumping Microsoft. We're type up the same thing and basically
laminate it but basically my mates and myself will just
scam me it and we're just getting free lunch. I
reckon a good at least thirty times or so.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
And then what happened? When did you get rumbled? When
was the scam?
Speaker 8 (07:25):
I didn't really get like like we've sort of thought,
you know, we'll take your break because a canteen ladyhoire
looking at us and they're like, geez, you're picking up
a lot of run. So, yeah, we bought, will probably
stop justification.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
That we got caught.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yeah, finish on top.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Well well Christian Connell's Show podcast
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