CONFIDENCE TRICKSTERS
WELLINGTON MAN DUPED. [ Australian Press Assn. [ LONDON, July 20. “I would like to see the confidence man who could take me down,” was what Mr Dixon, of Wellington, told a confidence trickster who relieved him of £740. Mr Dixon said that he had considered himself proof against any confidence man. He had travelled for four months through various parts of Europe before Reaching London, but was only in London three days before he fell to the old “inheritance trick.” He said: “I do not know what my friends in Australia and New Zealand will think of me for being such a fool, but I guarantee that nine out of ten of anyone I know would have fallen. Although I was guarded and suspicious, at the last moment the thing looked so real that I handed over the money. My advice to Australians and New Zealanders coming to London is: ‘Do not hand over any money to anyone.’”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 173, 23 July 1929, Page 7
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