You paid for a laptop and get a laptop bag. But when unpacking roll the bona fide purchasers against potatoes lenovo thinkpad r500 battery. In 17 cases with unknown perpetrators have passed this simple trick. The crooks continue to operate.
Instead of high-quality electronic products unknown to the Rhine and Ruhr have either potatoes, onions, sugar packets or bottles of water brought to the man. All cases occurred in the past three weeks.
As the police said, citing data from the State Criminal Office North Rhine-Westphalia, the mesh of scroungers every time is the same: Two unknown men ask on the street, in Internet cafes or pizzerias potential victims if they are not cheap a laptop, a cell phone or digital camera want to buy.
After presentation of the brand devices, the alleged original receipt and the price negotiation is then passed after a distraction such as a laptop bag. Then, the only English-speaking offenders traveling in cars with English labels and right-hand-like at once. If the lenovo thinkpad x60 battery , lenovo thinkpad x60s battery dupe then his supposed bargain in appearances, is the bitter moment of truth.
The investigators are currently two Taterduos. The number of fraud cases is probably much higher, said a police spokesman. Thus, in Hagen, a man paid 1900 for two laptops - and received two bags of potatoes. For 750 received in Düsseldorf, a business man to even a stack of paper. In Duisburg are already five people taken in by the scroungers. Last on Wednesday where he bought a 32-year-old in this way an expensive bag of onions - for 500. From Wuppertal or Düren have already reported cases.
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