A friend of a friend - lets call him 'Guy' - is a sommelier in a very expensive restaurant in the West End of London. He attended a...

My mate got stung with an £80 fine the other day for trespassing into London's Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) in his 20 year old Toyota...

I have a mate who has built a house at the top of his garden. His house is already large enough, however, he was also painfully aware...

I was cajoled into going shopping the other day with Lucy, a female friend; she wanted to buy something expensive for her husband James...

For the benefit of any lawyers reading this, I think it best to point out that this is not a Cliff Richard reference! When people think...

We all want to live in a nice flat or house in a nice road, even if just temporarily. The bad guys obviously know this and reel in their...

If you have ever been stuck behind a caravan on a B road during the Summer holidays, you will understand why this is the unofficial motto...

Following on from my last posting A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing and Susan Grossey's post in her excellent 'I hate Money...

You can’t con an honest man - or woman - or can you? I vaguely remembered the article in a local newspaper reporting that a fellow...

Given the recent surge in dognapping cases, I thought this might provide an interesting take on how fraudsters and other criminals...

Richard's previous experience at listening into his customer's own negotiating strategies paid for a nice house in a good area. His...

I met Richard, an ex-colleague for a chat the other day; he had heard that I had hung up my boots and wanted to hear it from the horse's...

I have no qualifications in psychology whatsoever - I thought it best to make that clear from the outset! However, a lifetime of...

Having given up my previous 'career' as a fraudster I've resigned myself to working for not very much money doing a job that I find...

The old adage that 'you can't fight mother nature' fails to apply once you reach the age of 18 and you can indulge yourself in whatever...

Given the huge decline in travel abroad at present, I was going to resist publishing this post, however, the principles remain true. As...

I currently drive a nice Range Rover, it has all the toys, bells and whistles but if I'm perfectly honest I don't bother with many of...

We are all creatures of habit and routine and normally that is a good thing. As a child I recall the sound of leather on Brian Close...

Not all magicians wear dinner jackets, are accompanied by sequinned attractive assistants and carry top hats from which they produce live...

Spoofing generally takes two forms, phone numbers and email addresses. Both are possible using easy to acquire software that basically mask