French police cuff six over Sarkozy bank fraud
New bank fraud terminology? #
Posted Friday 31st October 2008 10:31 GMT
To have one's bank account hacked into, illegally accessed or raided is to "get Sarkozied"
"I hear that your bank account was Sarkozied, did they get much?"
Works for me.
Dumb and dumber. #
Posted Friday 31st October 2008 12:30 GMT
You're in France. You're a bank scammer. You get a load of bank details. Do hack the account with the name "Nicolas Sarkozy" or the one with the name "Jean Bloggues"?
If bank fraud is now so simple that people this monumentally thick can do it, we should be very scared.
Oh, and about the terminology? I reckon that in future, any scam so mind-numbingly stupid that anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together would immediately spot it was doomed to failure should be known as a "Sarkozy fraud".
(We need a Jade Goody icon. Paris is waaay too intelligent to be appropriate here.)
That was fast... #
Posted Friday 31st October 2008 13:34 GMT
In less than 8 days, 6 people are in the nick.
When J. Bloggs get's his card hacked, it's 3 months, complaints to be loged with the cops, copies sent recorded delievery to your bank, arguments with your bank manager to get your money back.... And no-one has ever got nailed!
Oh, he's a high ranking civil servant.... I forgot that the law and justice has 2 speeds...
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