Great Swindle

Will and Guy's Pictures of Great Swindles

• Great Swindle - Tax Service
• Fortune Tellers
• Million Dollar Note Funny Money Swindle
• The Real Deal - A Genuine £1,000,000 Banknote
• Gangsters

Great Swindle - Tax Service

I wonder what the little notice on the bottom left says?

High Price - Great Swindle

Fortune Tellers

'I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlours, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policeman getting ready to arrest her.' New York City detective.

Unforeseen crystal ball mishap

A crystal ball caught the setting autumn sun and started a fire.  Margaret Padwick, left crystal ball on a window ledge and while she was out it focused the sun's rays on to her curtains.  Mrs Padwick said: 'The funny thing was my friend was asking me to stay to watch Neighbours on TV, but for some reason I didn't want to'.  Instead she returned to her home in Poole, Dorset, to find her lounge full of smoke.  She immediately called the fire brigade and they came quickly and saved her house.

Dave Cooper, of Dorset fire service, said: 'It was most unusual. The conditions were just right with a low, strong October sun.'

Million Dollar Bank Note - Funny Money Swindle

In Pittsburgh, USA a man tried to get change of a $1m bank note.  In this real life case, a man handed over a counterfeit million dollar bill to the cashier at a supermarket in Pittsburgh, and asked for change.  Police told the BBC that the man became abusive when a manager at the Giant Eagle store confiscated the fake note. He broke an electronic funds-transfer machine at the counter and reached for a scanner gun, said police.  Consequently the police arrested the villain and he was later held in Alegheny County Jail.

Of course, there is no real US bank note worth $1m; in fact since 1969, the $100 note has been the highest denomination in circulation.

Police are investigating whether the bogus note was among a batch distributed last year as a publicity stunt by a Dallas-based religious ministry.  Actually, Will and Guy can help the police, there are prank websites that sell funny money; indeed you can openly buy ten Trillion dollar notes for less than $7 at prankplace.com.

Another $1 Million Great Swindle Attempt

A US woman has been charged with forgery after trying to use a fake $1 million bill  to pay her check at a supermarket. Alice Pike, 35, pulled out the note at a Wal-Mart store, in Georgia, to pay for $1,672 worth of goods and asked for change, police said. The cashier immediately noticed the bill - bearing the picture of the Statue of Liberty - was fake and called her manager who alerted the police.

Alice claimed it was all a misunderstanding — she thought the bill was real.  'You can't keep up with the U.S. Treasury,' said Alice Pike, speaking from jail.  Pike also told police that she got the bill from her estranged husband, who is a coin collector.   Over here in the UK, Will and Guy are hoping that the case features on Judge Judy.

The Real Deal - A Genuine £1,000,000 Banknote

This is a real £1 million pound banknote.  But today it's only worth £50,000.  Can this be true?  Could it be another of Will and Guy's hoaxes?  Fact is always stranger than fiction, this is the real deal.

Genuine stories always have verifiable facts, spoofs, you can check at Snopes.com.  This real £1 million banknote was issued on 30th August 1948 and cancelled 6 weeks later on the 8th of October 1948.

You can see that this Treasury Note was number 8, in fact nine were issued as part of the Marshall Plan.  Seven of the nine were destroyed once they were cancelled.  We are assuming that they were paid to the USA as part of the UK's contribution to the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after World War II.

Somehow this £1 million banknote survived, and while it has clearly been cancelled, and therefore has no face value.  However, it is of considerable value to collectors, hence the auctioneers Spinks' valuation of £50,000.

Gangsters - Great Swindlers

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are. O. Henry

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. Woody Allen

I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. Stephen Leacock

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known
Thomas Pickering

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
Robert W. Sarnoff

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
William Jennings Bryan

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Richard M. Nixon

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