All Scams articles – Page 7
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: How was this crime perpetrated?
Man goes into Kiran Patel's store, (Coulsdon News in Surrey) and asks for a £100 Ukash voucher, which Kiran put through his Payzone terminal. The customer didn't touch the voucher (neither did he have a mobile with which to photograph it), but then...
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Dear JacPhone-y business back in town
Cowboy ratings companies are back in town and they have absolutely no scruples. I'll give you an old example first. When twin companies Oldfields and Strattons, the biggest of the baddies, were at their height in the 1990s, they duped thousands of...
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Dear Jac: Name that tune!
Not for the first time I've received a complaint regarding news wholesalers' 'partners' ringing retailers to sell them 'extras' and managing to give the impression that they are the wholesaler themselves.
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Dear Jac: A waste of time and money? No comment
You wouldn't really switch your rubbish collection unless it was going to save you money, would you? Stupid question. Vipul Pabari, who trades as Connaught Rd PO in Leicestershire, says that the price quoted to him by the PHS Wastetech...
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Dear Jac: Scams are a many flavoured thing
I said that scams come in many flavours. Here's the latest from Kirit Ved (Ved News, Stoke Newington, London).
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Dear Jac: Scam on the street
Man walks into a shop. I know, sounds like an intro to a joke except this smartly dressed, confident customer is a con artist.
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Dear Jac: Don’t waste all your energy on savings
I wrote in my last column by all means save energy, save money and help save the planet just be careful who you partner with.
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Dear Jac: Get the right kind of ratings help
The draft list for the 2010 rates revaluation has now been published and you will be getting details of your new assessments. Cue the cowboys.
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Dear Jac: Hola! The Spanish scam is back
Jon Mercer writes that he has received his invitation to confirm his entry in the esteemed European City Guide!
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Fake vouchers? Read all about it
When it comes to fraudulent vouchers for 'free' copies of The Times being 'rampant' (I'm borrowing a Sun word here), News International doesn't give a fig about letting retailers know.
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Dear Jac: Heading them off at the pass
Do watch out again for those business rates cowboys. Every year I warn about them several times, and every year some people fall for it. But they didn't fool Subas Patel, who runs Choc Box at Chessington in Surrey.
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Dear Jac: Closing in on fingers in the till
It certainly isn't a bundle of fun having to confront staff over suspected theft.
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Dear Jac: Can you spot the fakes?
Khalid Khawada, who runs Westcliffe News at Westcliffe-on-Sea, Essex, had a nasty shock during a recent expedition to the Southend branch of his cash and carry.
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Dear Jac: Red alert on insurance red herrings
High-profile retailer Jonathan James has responded to my column where I reported that Ash Chauan lost £12,000 after robbers hid on his roof.
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Dear Jac: Alarm over fiddlers on the roof
If Ash Chauhan had known there were four blokes in balaclavas on the roof of his Spar store, he would have had a sleepless night.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Publishing scam revealed
Linda Dance faxed me from her store, Tatsfield Post Office near Westerham in Kent, with yet another variation on the old publishing scam.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Publishing scam
These publishing scams tend to come along like rashes - all over the show for a while, then it goes quiet.
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Dear Jac: A clever play-on-words scam
Pravin Limbachia was one of a number of retailers who called about the 'Whodunnit in Doncaster' tale.
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Dear Jac: Big bad scam features on Radio Four
John Maxwell-Jones of Burgess Stores, Goudhurst, Kent, who has frequently been targeted by the European City Guide rang to say that it had been featured on Radio Four's 'You & Yours' programme.