Rip Off Britain

[TWR]

I watch this program every week, did you read about Gloria Hunniford getting ripped of for £120.000, I am not being fictitious here but could you get ripped off for this amount? the members on here I surmise are well over the 60 / 70s, could you be taken for a ride? Eg/ by a gardener / Odd Job Man / Painter / Roofer.

[dannyk13]

In a word NO.

[agchristie]

Yes,Gloria explained all on Loose Women a few weeks ago and it took her a whole weekend to sort.

It is obviously possible - who really trusts their bank now?

[agchristie]

All you need is a clever person to walk into a bank and a teller who doesn't know what he/she is doing....

[-Talbot-]

Not being funny TW but I think you mean 'facetious'

[andy-hughes]

Did Ms. Hunniford manage to talk about this without shoehorning the death of her daughter into the conversation?

If so, it would be a TV first.

[TWR]

I know she goes on about her loss A.H. but not on this occasion.

[Barmaid]

GH's case was obviously a well planned and prepared for fraud with fake ID in order to impersonate her. I think it could potentially happen to anyone. It is so easy to get people's details, birth certs, marriage certs, family and friends' details, address etc. I could probably trace most people in a couple of hours. (Although in fairness I wouldnt know where to get fake ID so I suppose I shall just have to stay on the straight and narrow for now).

In terms of being ripped off by trades, I would like to think not because I am naturally of a suspicious nature but who knows.

It is the elderly I feel really sorry for - so easy for them to fall for the simplest of tricks. Part of the problem with people like my 90 year old grandparents is that they are trusting. If someone saying they were from the bank were to call them, they would do as they were told! If someone turned up saying he was a police officer, from the gas board, water board etc, they would ordinarily accept what they were told. Thankfully, my mother and I have re-educated them so they always call one of us.

[TWR]

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[-Talbot-]

andy-hughes
Did Ms. Hunniford manage to talk about this without shoehorning the death of her daughter into the conversation?

If so, it would be a TV first.
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Is she as obsessed with the death of her daughter as you are about her talking about the death of her daughter?

[douglas9401]

On the contrary, TWR, the one who's gone before was indeed mentioned by the sainted Gloria.

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - //andy-hughes
Did Ms. Hunniford manage to talk about this without shoehorning the death of her daughter into the conversation?

If so, it would be a TV first.
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Is she as obsessed with the death of her daughter as you are about her talking about the death of her daughter? //

Far more I'd say.

I only mention it on here when reference is made to it - and other than that I forget about it.

She on the other hand has parlayed bereavement into a career staple.

[TWR]

Let's not go off Topic please.

[mikey4444]

These kinds of fraud go on all the time, no matter how many times they appear in the Media. The people that commit them are very clever.

[-Talbot-]

There was no need at all for you to mention it on this thread.
I find your obsession with a mother grieving for her dead child a tad weird.

[mikey4444]

Andy....a tad unsympathetic perhaps ?

[-Talbot-]

andy-hughes
I only mention it on here when reference is made to it - and other than that I forget about it.
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Clearly not true.

[ummmm]

Very unsympathetic!! I talk about my dad all the time for no other reason than things often remind me of him.

TWR - No, I don't think I'd fall for scam.

[andy-hughes]

ummm - //Very unsympathetic!! I talk about my dad all the time for no other reason than things often remind me of him. //

I have no problem with people talking to friends and family about a lost loved one, that is perfectly natural.

But shoehorning a loss into any and every appearance in national media is not natural, it is inappropriate.

I would never wish the loss of a loved one on anyone to use that loss to become a ghoulish attention seeker is clearly not normal behaviour.

But as advised, I do not wish to go off-topic - I find mention of GH prokes a Pavlovain response in me

[-Talbot-]

You shoehorned it into this thread.

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - a fair point - but I didn't do it on national TV for a four-figure fee to enhance my profile.