Perfect Crime
U/squishysharkmaster: “This guy I knew went out to a downtown type club where they swipe your card once and then keep it til you come back to get it when you want to leave. The goal here is obviously to have them keep coming up and buying more drinking and you just rack up a large bill until you cash out and you get your final check.
Well he bought a Visa cards from Walmart and put 10$ on it. Ordered one drink and the card didn’t get declined cause it was under 10$ then started coming back and back, eventually racking up a bill over 200$. The guy just left the club and they never heard from him again. The club had no way of finding him either cause they’re is no name on those cards.”
Respect the Hustle
U/Norseof60: “Some kids in town came up with a pretty impressive hustle. Canada was a year or two from retiring the penny and there was a shortage so banks had a deal saying if you brought in $10 worth of rolled pennies, they would give you $12 cash. These guys (they were around 10 years old) took in all their pennies and made the $2 per $10.
Then went to another bank and bought $12 worth of pennies, went to the next bank and sold them back. Rinse and repeat, making 20% per transaction until bank staff (we only have half a dozen banks in town) figured out the hustle.”