* Posts by Gareth

2 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jan 2008

Counterfeit vans: A little-known online grocery scam

Gareth

Film Set Alert

If the customer is only going to be LOOKING at the delivery van and its number plate, then a scammer wouldn't need an actual working van. A wooden mock-up, or maybe an inflatable would suffice, just like the British did with fake tanks to fool the Luftwaffe before D-Day.

And if the mock-up is parked down the street it need not be even the normal size - an 80% model would probably fool most people.

US boffins create darkest material ever

Gareth

Alchemy

Didn't Blackadder and Baldrick also manage inadvertently to produce a new substance they named "black" while trying to turn coal into gold?