Tho tremendous vogue of wireless has provided tricksters with the latest opportunity for fraud, according to a London message to the Sydney -‘Sun. They visit suburban houses possessing aerials and represent themselves as I’ost Office inspectors. If the housekeeper cannot produce a license they lino her a sovereign. If tho license is produced the trickster tinkers with (lie receiving set and asserts that the mechanism is defective, and must thoroughly be examined. Expensive sets are thus stolen.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 104, 28 January 1924, Page 6
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