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Castle Courtyard => Liar's Bench aka... Pickle Barrel => Topic started by: Kena on December 03, 2017, 06:04:41 AM

Title: "Coin Collector" Oyster Card Fraud
Post by: Kena on December 03, 2017, 06:04:41 AM

The reporting about this is a bit funny.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5121051/Coin-collector-used-SWAZILAND-currency-Oyster.html

Would a coin collector really do something like this?

Title: Re: "Coin Collector" Oyster Card Fraud
Post by: Humpybong on December 03, 2017, 07:11:26 AM

What is the 'Oyster Card'?

Title: Re: "Coin Collector" Oyster Card Fraud
Post by: Kena on December 03, 2017, 07:16:02 AM

A payment card that folks use for public transport in London (trains, buses, and the London underground).  On the underground you swipe the card as the start and end of your journey to pay for the trip.

Title: Re: "Coin Collector" Oyster Card Fraud
Post by: Paint Your Wagon on December 04, 2017, 04:35:41 AM

Before we had the bimetalic euro people would use all kind of foreign money to put in coca cola machines
or as petty change
The majority were people who returned from vacation and tried to get rid of their foreign coins which banks would
refuse to take back

Title: Re: "Coin Collector" Oyster Card Fraud
Post by: Kena on December 05, 2017, 12:17:47 AM

I think that is different from what this so-called collector was trying to do.

Title: Re: "Coin Collector" Oyster Card Fraud
Post by: Paint Your Wagon on December 05, 2017, 03:05:00 AM

Quote from: Kena on December 05, 2017, 12:17:47 AM

I think that is different from what this so-called collector was trying to do.

Of course it is different but a swindle is a swindle only the size of the theft is different
Nowadays the machines here measure weight and diameter and thickness and electric conductivity
Even good coins are refused some of the times
It is very difficult to pass a foreign coin now lets say impossible