If you have never heard of this really famous(infamous) con, here are two links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_van_speaker_scam
and from there a short you tube of one scam in action, and a passerby busts the con so the sucker doesn't get took:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O58MvTWAI_M
Now back then, the con was a pro looking cardboard case with the alleged high end speakers in there. If the sucker wanted a look, sure, they'd pop it open, and you could see a wooden speaker cabinet with some jacks. turns out that was it, the speaker grills and jacks, etc were just the facade, inside the cabinet was just..rocks! Just heavy to make it feel and look like what it was supposed to be. They'd sell a box 0 rocks for like three hundred, claiming they were like real high end bose speakers or something.
today's scam they tried was a high end "home theater system". Two real "clean cut" looking young guys in a minivan. Man, they got mad when I yelled out it was a con and I was gonna call the cops on them..they took off.
hahahahahahaha
So don't get took if you see any of these characters running this scam, they are organized gangs who build the rank/counterfeit/phony gear then practice being conmen. A lot of variations, but that is how it works.
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