Some scammers are using car parks to do crime by watching people getting into their car in a certain area of the car park which allows another driver to quickly come in when signaled and park in the victims blind spot just behing them two people act as a distraction as the person gets into their car, this is when they signal the other driver to quickly come in.

the victim looks left and right looks in the rear vision mirror but is looking over the bonnet of the other car and doesn’t see it and reveres out of the park space into the other car.

the two people act as a distraction and can also be used as witnesses to the incident which they themselves have organized

the other driver only gets a $50 ding but this is the fun part loads other damages onto the bill which just comes to $500 just under where the other insurance company would come in and scrutinize the video cameras as evidence

Easy money

I’m not going to office works any more.

A mechanic who loosens 2 nuts to let oil escape from a power steering unit over a few weeks, and then scams the victim by saying the unit needs replacing (when it doesn’t, just refilling and tightening up the nuts again) and the fun part charging $500 for a $150 part.

Easy money…

Where did you get these from? Not from Australia I bet.

Russia is where I’d expect to see scams like these.

I fell for the old windscreen wiper scale in Australia many times, when a service station attendent damaged my windscreen wiper and then charged me for a new one. Hasn’t happened in more than 20 years.

mollwollfumble said:

Where did you get these from? Not from Australia I bet.

Russia is where I’d expect to see scams like these.

I fell for the old windscreen wiper scale in Australia many times, when a service station attendent damaged my windscreen wiper and then charged me for a new one. Hasn’t happened in more than 20 years.

Scale -> scam .

mollwollfumble said:

Where did you get these from? Not from Australia I bet.

I was once told that my steering column had worn out and I needed a new one. $400.

I told him to fark orf I wasn’t falling for that. He later told me that he solved the problem by packing it.

There’s the other side of the coin:

where a problem needing considerable work is detected, but the workshop isn’t interested in undertaking it. Patch it up quick so it’s not an immediate crisis, tell the customer it was minor, take a few bucks, and send ‘em on down the road, on to the next job.

Happens more with workshops on highway routes. My dad quit a job with an outfit like that, wasn’t the way he worked.

Traveler shows and tells the homeowner that the hot water anode is corroded and needs to be replaced.

AwesomeO said:

Traveler shows and tells the homeowner that the hot water anode is corroded and needs to be replaced.

Is that actually more of a reverse problem? My water heater manual tells me to check the anode often and replace it after 10 years or so. How many people actually check their hot water anode every 10 years?

And if not replaced when needed, the entire hot water service carks it in an irreversible way a couple of months later. If replaced when needed, the hot water service lasts forever.

mollwollfumble said:

AwesomeO said:

Traveler shows and tells the homeowner that the hot water anode is corroded and needs to be replaced.

Is that actually more of a reverse problem? My water heater manual tells me to check the anode often and replace it after 10 years or so. How many people actually check their hot water anode every 10 years?

And if not replaced when needed, the entire hot water service carks it in an irreversible way a couple of months later. If replaced when needed, the hot water service lasts forever.

Its listed as a scam because they always look buggered and the traveler will bill you lots for one that doesn’t need replacing. Do a couple of streets in a suburb and it’s a nice earner.

Trump tells the world he’ll make American great again

Cymek said:

Trump tells the world he’ll make American great again

He’s just waiting on Vlad and Xi to give him the go-ahead.

Cymek said:

Trump tells the world he’ll make American great again

I’ve been trying and trying, but have been unable to find it on the web. A major political slogan in one UK election was “Make Britain Great Again”. Obviously, certain Americans who have no ideas of their own have stolen it. Any idea which UK election it was?

Extended warranties are a scam as well

mollwollfumble said:

Cymek said:

Trump tells the world he’ll make American great again

I’ve been trying and trying, but have been unable to find it on the web. A major political slogan in one UK election was “Make Britain Great Again”. Obviously, certain Americans who have no ideas of their own have stolen it. Any idea which UK election it was?

Got it. It was the election of Margaret Thatcher.

mollwollfumble said:

Cymek said:

Trump tells the world he’ll make American great again

I’ve been trying and trying, but have been unable to find it on the web. A major political slogan in one UK election was “Make Britain Great Again”. Obviously, certain Americans who have no ideas of their own have stolen it. Any idea which UK election it was?

Even if the intent was true its not a simple fix that a political slogan can achieve, it would take decades or longer to rejig your economy and society to make your nation great again (whatever than means anyway)

Various programs that claim to speed up and/or fix your computer

Tau.Neutrino said:

Some scammers are using car parks to do crime by watching people getting into their car in a certain area of the car park which allows another driver to quickly come in when signaled and park in the victims blind spot just behing them two people act as a distraction as the person gets into their car, this is when they signal the other driver to quickly come in.

the victim looks left and right looks in the rear vision mirror but is looking over the bonnet of the other car and doesn’t see it and reveres out of the park space into the other car.

the two people act as a distraction and can also be used as witnesses to the incident which they themselves have organized

the other driver only gets a $50 ding but this is the fun part loads other damages onto the bill which just comes to $500 just under where the other insurance company would come in and scrutinize the video cameras as evidence

Easy money

I’m not going to office works any more.

Do all Office Works stores have “difficult” car parks then?

I thought it was just my local one.

mollwollfumble said:

Where did you get these from? Not from Australia I bet.

Russia is where I’d expect to see scams like these.

I fell for the old windscreen wiper scale in Australia many times, when a service station attendent damaged my windscreen wiper and then charged me for a new one. Hasn’t happened in more than 20 years.

Why?

I can’t see any reason why this couldn’t happen in Aus.

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

Where did you get these from? Not from Australia I bet.

Russia is where I’d expect to see scams like these.

I fell for the old windscreen wiper scale in Australia many times, when a service station attendent damaged my windscreen wiper and then charged me for a new one. Hasn’t happened in more than 20 years.

Why?

I can’t see any reason why this couldn’t happen in Aus.

I can’t see any reason why a service station attendant who breaks my windscreen wiper wouldn’t agree to replace it at no cost to me.

I’d see even less reason why, after i retrieve a crowbar from my vehicle and ask him to reconsider any reluctance he might display.

years had a vw beetle in the garage – the exhaust had a hole in it

the told me they had the german exhaust – much better quality bit a bit more expensive or the brazillian exhaust cheaper but lower quality

i turned up on the fly early sunday morning at Wolfsburg Motors https://www.wolfsburgmotors.com.au/contact to see my beetle up on the hoist and the apprentice walking around

i went straight over to the car and saw lo and behold a “made in brazil” sticker on the exhaust

i said nothing , the phone rang and the apprentice said – yes the customer is here and most likely – yes he has spotted the sticker

they then told me they had fitted the brazillian exhaust instead

they contacted me a few days later to tell me they had fitted the wrong brake mechs as well- i ignored them, they rang me again and told me they were scamming me, i turned up watched them fit the mech and drove out never to return

these fellahs http://www.vwvillage.com.au/ are the ultimate scam artists, one young kid that worked for them told me they added dirt to the oil to fuck the engine, i had seen one of the mechanics take a scoop of grease and force it into the oil spout for the topping up the engine on a vw beetle. i normally only visited them when desperate. i got them to put a helicoil on the vw kombi engine (i had foolishly tried changing a spark plug to discover the plug thread was stripped and essentially glued in – i had to drive it down to them with the hatch open to dilute the petrol fumes pouring into the engine compartment – very noisy – lets say , it was a head turner) when i got it back i immediately knew they had done something to the kombi to guarantee a return trip. after 30 seconds of thinking i tried the horn – now no longer working – i stopped got out and horn was underneath and small screw in it was screwed in tight to stop the diaphragm moving to make noise. i loosened the screw and the horn worked again – that was the last time i ever went back there.

in the end i managed to pass the kombi on to some backpackers keen to buy it, filled in some holes / splits with epoxy, black paint and importantly NO SMOKE added to the oil – on start up the engine would belch a huge cloud of smoke as big as a house – before anyone came over to see it i would warm up the engine. fact is vw beetles and kombi always have problems. when you decided to coast in the kombi it wasn’t unknown for a massive backfire to happen and give the pidgeons a heart attack – every drive would be an adventure, the battery dying, backfires, dodgy clutch cables etc etc.,

the vw garage up in lennox were an honest lot, they just fixed the beetle fast and gave it back – no probs

mollwollfumble said:

AwesomeO said:

Traveler shows and tells the homeowner that the hot water anode is corroded and needs to be replaced.

Is that actually more of a reverse problem? My water heater manual tells me to check the anode often and replace it after 10 years or so. How many people actually check their hot water anode every 10 years?

And if not replaced when needed, the entire hot water service carks it in an irreversible way a couple of months later. If replaced when needed, the hot water service lasts forever.

certainly sacrificial anodes get neglected, there’s a few different sorts too, thicknesses for depending on water type.

but frankly is someone turned up out of the blue and wanted to fiddle with my anode i’d be suspicious.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-05/scammers-use-dating-websites-to-rip-people-off/9877522