White van Speaker SCAM!

Meaty · Postby **Meaty** » Sat Apr 09, 2011 5:43 am

saw one of these yesterday in st kilda at a petrol station , Claim to be delivery men for Harvey Norman and offered me a "home theatre system" as the "guy at the depot" had given them 1 extra and they had to offload itbefore they got to the dropoff .

Showed me a heap of "larsen Acoustic" speakers and stuff in the baqck of their van.
i was suss and googled it on my iphone, seems to be a world wide scam which is now rife in Australia

http://www.scamshield.com/Sighting.asp?state=none&country=Australia&article=1

here is actual product
http://www.unclesimonsays.com/Product.aspx?id=53

DO NOT BE FOOLED there seems to be a few of them running around acording to scamshield

DORA_ANNE · Postby **DORA_ANNE** » Sat Apr 09, 2011 8:32 am

Thank You For sharing this Tate ...They are certainly Some low-life's out there :evil:

Kimmy · Postby **Kimmy** » Sat Apr 09, 2011 9:17 am

Yep I've heard of this happening to someone I know too..

JaCe · Postby **JaCe** » Sat Apr 09, 2011 10:14 am

It\'s a pretty old scheme I think- remember guys, being in possession of stolen goods is a crime. Unlawful possession = can be reclaimed at any time.

ps. This happened to me not that long ago at a servo- someone said nice car and asked if I wanted a Pioneer sub!

Meaty · Postby **Meaty** » Sat Apr 09, 2011 11:02 am

personaly, it doesnt matter if its a 20 yr old scam or a fresh one, it happening right now and i would prefer to get people informed so a less fall for it, the more people informed the less chance for these things happening to people.

bye2u · Postby **bye2u** » Sat Apr 09, 2011 11:25 am

ive been approached by a white van twice trying to sell me home theatre stuff lol once at mount druitt westfield and second time at m4 caltex eastbound.. they looked so dodgey lol

PYLee · Postby **PYLee** » Sat Apr 09, 2011 12:24 pm

did you give them a roundhouse kick cheung ?

king eternal · Postby **king eternal** » Sat Apr 09, 2011 2:11 pm

A couple years ago a white van stopped in the middle of the road and yelled out to me on the footpath, the guy asked if i liked music, in a confused state I said yes, he then offered me a home theater set for cheap (that was all the details he provided, not even a brand). I said no for obvious reasons, and they drove off.
Not suspicious at all :roll:

Shaunzeh · Postby **Shaunzeh** » Sat Apr 09, 2011 3:11 pm

i've been approached 3 times, twice in the chermside westfield carpark and once in the homemaker centre in Holland park.. said na i'll be right and kept walking

bye2u · Postby **bye2u** » Sat Apr 09, 2011 3:32 pm

PYLee wrote:did you give them a roundhouse kick cheung ?

yeepp but that was after i gave them a headbutt

PYLee · Postby **PYLee** » Sat Apr 09, 2011 5:45 pm

bye2u wrote:yeepp but that was after i gave them a headbutt

nice , that'll teach them a lesson for trying to scam you

White van Speaker SCAM!

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