WIRELESS FRAUDS
BOGUS INSPECTORS. TRICKSTER’S PLAN. (Sydnev "Sun” Cable.! LONDON, January 25. The tremendous, rogue of wireless has provided tricksters with the latest opportunity for fraud. They visit suburban houses possessing aerials, and represent themselves as Post Office inspectors. If the housekeeper cannot produce) a license, they fine her a sovereign. If a license is produced the trickster tinkers with the receiving set and asserts that the mechanism is defective and must thoroughly be examined. Expensive seta are thus stolen.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11738, 28 January 1924, Page 3
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80WIRELESS FRAUDS New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11738, 28 January 1924, Page 3
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