Greed leads to grief: Indian man loses KD 350 to get KD 100,000
KUWAIT: Police are looking for an unidentified person for stealing KD 350 from an Indian man, reports Al-Shahed daily. According to the complainant, he received a call from a stranger speaking in Kuwaiti dialect.
The caller informed the Indian that he had won KD 100,000 prize from a telecommunications company.
To get the prize, the man said the victim must bring along KD 350 and a copy of his civil ID to complete the procedures for issuing a cheque.
The swindler met the victim, got the money and the photocopy of the civil ID and said the company will call him the next day.
When the victim felt he was cheated, he telephoned the man, who laughed hysterically and said he deserves 100,000 shoes on his head.
After the victim filed a case with the Surra Police Station, the police failed to contact the suspect because he had switched off his cell phone.
During interrogations police discovered the suspect was using the telephone line of an Asian expatriate who has left the country long ago.
Arab Times
The guy who committed the fraud was most likely a Paki.
Generalising is never a good idea.
Waise… A fool and his gold are soon parted. Some people are just too stupid.
Now I know that being stupid is not a crime (wish it was) – but it does have certain disadvantages.
In my view – he didn’t get swindled or robbed. He paid for a lesson.
Hopefully the idiot learnt something out of this.
Dikhaawon pe mat jaao – apni akal ladaao.
I’m not generalizing, just making an intelligent guess based on anecdotal evidence. You see, this type of fraud is usually committed by Pakis. All Paki fraudsters have a similar modus operandi:
1. Promise to double your business investment (as in this case).
2. US or Canadian visa in exchange for money.
3. Better paying job provided you give the Paki photocopies of your passport, birth certificate, and academic certificates.
If a Paki approaches you with these promises, he is most likely a fraudster.
Most Pakis think through their asses (anecdotal evidence.)
Anecdotal Evidence – The expression anecdotal evidence refers to evidence from anecdotes. Because of the small sample, there is a larger chance that it may be true but unreliable due to cherry-picked or otherwise non-representative samples of typical cases
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence
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Rahul wrote: “All Paki fraudsters have a similar modus operandi” –
Actually – ALL fraudsters have a SIMILAR modus operandi.
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Anybody who offers to double your investment is most likely a fraudster. Regardless of nationality. If something sounds too good to be true – it most likely isn’t true.
This isn’t “anecdotal evidence”. This is common sense!
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Rahul wrote: “Most Pakis think through their asses”
I really don’t see how that statement is justifying or validating your conclusion. Unless you want to say that thinking through one’s ass helps in coming up with cons. OR a thought through a Pakis ass is more likely to fool an individual who is thinking out of his / her brain.
I would conclude that most “victims” of these fraudsters don’t think at all (out of their respective asses or otherwise). Now a comment like THAT would have made sense.
Again, not “anecdotal evidence” but simple observation.
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I would go through Google’s News Search option and provide links of SIMILAR frauds committed by Indians or other nationalities, but it seems like such a waste of time. Because you would then come up with more links to support your “anecdotal evidence”. I simply don’t have the time for faaltu comment-baazi. Well I do have the time, I guess I just don’t have the interest.
The point I was trying to highlight was – Dikhaawon pe mat jaao, apni akal ladaao.