Dickheads! Don't they know you're only supposed to do that from the pulpit?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/08/nsw-car-park-scam-elderly-women-men-charged-ntwnfb

7 Comments

  1. So they’re on a tourist visa. Going on a holiday and finding the softest targeting they can. Scum.

  2. “…72 offences each … on tourist visas since 28 December.”

    That’s quite a spree. I imagine Australians make soft, lucrative targets. We’re just not accustomed to this type of attack.

  3. Educational-Feeling7 on

    still tho

    I asked my semi dementia 71 y o mum – hey mum if some bloke came up to you I. A car park and told you you have car trouble wns can you pop your bonnet, what say you

    Go away you shady man, she said. He wouldn’t know if I did or didn’t have car trouble. So obviously a scam.

    My mother. Who has actually been scammed four times online. Shes pretty useless and even she wouldn’t be popping her bonnet for a rando in a car park.

    So
    Maybe natural selection

  4. PMmeuroneweirdtrick on

    They must’ve come here for this exact purpose. Wonder where they got the idea from.

  5. Equivalent-Bonus-885 on

    Most of the money will be OS and irrecoverable. They will get deported congratulating themselves on a very profitable few weeks, or months in the unlikely event they are jailed.

    Australia is easy pickings for bottom-feeders like this.