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steve58

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2019 3:42pm

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Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2019 3:42pm

OMG 

we had exactly the same experience last year around September, we are holiday home owners on the urb but still live in the UK same sob story. I was working on our terrace and he came by talking to my wife and I same bulls**t and me like a Muppet took the geezer to elche where like a previous poster, he asked for money for the locksmith which I said I did not have with me and he went over road to get the locksmith and promptly disappeared leaving me to return feeling like a complete clown he told me he was Swedish but that is most likely crap as well.

A tall skinny bloke a bit dirty looking with a rucksack, my only issue is that it taints one view of people when you get folks like this just mugging you off. our neighbors are Spanish and are a lovely family as are most of the people we have met over the 20 years we have been coming to the urb.

one bad apple and all that but it will make me a little less trusting of folks which is a shame.

Steve.    

nikkimunday

Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2020 9:58am

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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2020 9:58am

Paul1969 wrote on Wed Aug 2, 2017 5:59pm:

'Peter' visited us at our holiday villa in La Marina on July 28th. We had exactly the same burglary/locksmith story and he asked us to lend him €30 and take him to Elche to pay the locksmith, when he would then give us back our money. Initially feeling sorry for him & not wanting to be untr...

...usting we gave him a drink of water (as he'd apparently just cycled to Elche & back in afternoon sun!) then  took him to Elche. On arriving in a busy area he suggested I gave him the money as there was nowhere to park. I refused & said I'd give it to the locksmith. He left the car to sort the payment out but after 30mins surprisingly hadn't returned! I read this post the next day & realised I was lucky I only wasted my time & a bit of petrol! My daughter has got a photo of him but we're not sure if we can post it? 

May I suggest giving the photograph to the police?

nikkimunday

Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2020 10:00am

nikkimunday

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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2020 10:00am

This happens regularly. I have lost count of the number of times this has been tried over the years. The surprising thing is that he still tries the same old con and even more surprisingly, people sometimes fall for it. 

elinspain

Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2020 10:08am

elinspain

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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2020 10:08am

nikkimunday wrote on Thu Oct 29, 2020 9:58am:

May I suggest giving the photograph to the police?

Hello'

Just letting you know that the reply you have just posted related to a post from Aug 2017. If you look at the date above the post you can see when it was put on the forum

Cheers

Elinspain

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