Confidence Trick in Cars

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22197, 6 December 1946, Page 4

Confidence Trick in Cars

By a cunning ruse, a well-dressed rogue made himself the richer by over £3OO recently in Christchurch at the expense of a potential car buyer, according to a report to the police. When a resident offered his car for sale, the well-dressed man called and examined it, and agreed to buy it at a price in the vicinity of £SOO. The buyer produced a cheque book, and made out a cheque for the full price. The seller asked the buyer to write his address on the back of the cheque. The buyer agreed, received the car paners, and the car, and drove away. Within an hour the well-dressed man called un a person offering to buy cars. He gave the new buyer a trial, and quickly made a sale at a figure slightly above the £3OO mark. He was paid in cash. When the original owner of the ‘car went to cash the cheque he was surprised to find it was a forgery and valueless*