Was this the stupidest crook of the decade?
This time last year, a rather unfortunate moron decided it would be a great idea to clone my debit card and go on a shopping spree.
Credit to the guy for the technical nous of actually committing the crime, but evidently common sense was traded in for intellect...
This complete clusterf*ck decided it would be a great idea to steal my credit card details and buy £500 of clothing from ASOS.com....
And his FULL family tree from 1901CensusOnline.com.
Which was great news when Barclays passed my case on to the police. Not only could they trace him from his long lost second removed cousin - they also knew what he'd be wearing as well.
Is this guy the worst criminal this side of the Noughties? Or does anyone have a better example of crooks gone horrifically thick?
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Was one of my personal favourites. Admittedly, he only looked stupid due to the very clever house owner!
oh my goodness.
had he also registered with iamathicko.com?
Glad u got it all sorted.
A report in the local paper said that a man held up the newsagents and stole the till, Unfortunately for him it was not the till it was a set of weighing scales!
I had something similar happen to me. This idiot bought two clocks on line and had one sent to her and the other to me. I guess she figured that her clock would go unnoticed and that maybe my wife ordered a clock for our house. What she didn't realize is that she stole the card that I and only I have. Also the clock company sent me an email confirming my order. I promptly called them back and explained that I had not ordered from them. Of course they cancilled the order and because the crime and criminal were in the same state they were able to arrest her for credit card fraud and theft.
LOL.LOL!!I love it . Smart enough to commit fraud to stupid to use it.
ha thats a good one
Well, that is a crook that I feel has won first place. He stole a car and then went home , call the police and ask them if they were looking for him? they told them "no" Why should we be looking for you?" He said because I just stole a car by then the police were able to trace the call and got him arrested.
Yeah, not the cleverest cookie in the jar, was he!
A local school where I live in Hull had 15 PC's and 6 laptops stolen from the computer room. The following week in the local newspaper 4 of the computers and 2 of the laptops were for sale. Contact details were included in the advert so it didn't take the Old Bill long to catch up with him!!
What a nugget!
Gordon Brown has been carrying out similar offences for a decade - he is now trying to get the power to just remove money directly from your bank account.
Does he really think nobody has noticed his crooked ways ?
Maybe the moron who ripped the sat-nav out of my friend's van leaving half the wire still plugged in the lighter socket. Or maybe the moron who answered a stolen mobile phone allowing the police time to track him down and arrest him. Or maybe the terrorist who mailed a bomb without enough postage on it. When it came back to him, he forgot what it was, opened it and blew himself to bits.
Years ago a young American boy was kidnapped from his school in Kenya and was held captive in a rural area. He had the bright idea of eating up the entire stock of food in the place (he was a rather amply proportioned boy) and then telling his captors that he was very hungry, weeping a little. Mercifully they were soft hearted and dutifully went off to the local store with his shopping list. Looking at these rather simple Africans and the elaborate shopping list they produced, full of things to delight the heart (and stomach) of an American adolescent, the shopkeeper grew suspicious and alerted the police. They were caught and the boy was rescued.
I'll bear it in mind if I'm ever kidnapped, but I reckon that most kidnappers wouldn't be so kind.
Glad it turned out well for you. Many people have to spend years getting their credit sorted out after this sort of thing.
In my area this guy decided to rob a bank. He didn't have a mask to he decided to cut some holes in a bag from a video rental chain. As he was leaving someone noticed a piece of paper fall off of him. It was a reciept for a movie rental from the day before that was in the bag.
The police went across the street to the video store.. got his address and found him counting the money at home.
The guy who broke into my house a few years ago, took some pics of himself and his mates with our camera - and left without the camera. The police rounded the lot up three days later and recovered most of our gear. Result!
when I was a prison officer one of our inmates had got a job in HMV in Southampton then made a habit of taking copies of card details. Instead of cloning the cards and going round the shops she used the details to buy thousands worth of fancy clothes by mail order. One day the police turned up at the house with a search warrant. She even got featured in the 'Britains dumbest criminals' book
I know of a true case where a bloke tried to rob a bank at gunpoint, only he didnt have a gun so he used a cucumber. Even though the cashier could see it was a cucumber she activated the silent alarm and the police arrived and nicked him. He'd shop-lifted the cucumber from the supermarket next door 5 minutes earlier.
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