Not exactly a betcha, but it was either here or the maths forum, and here seemed to be more in the spirit of things.

Does anyone know any good resources on scams involving the giving and receiving of change following a transaction? The wait-I'll-give-you-two-tens-and-you-give-me-a-five-and-a-one-and-we're-square type of exchange, where one party ends up thinking they're even but are actually down.

Cheers.


Rikk

There are routines out there, check with magic Inc

Since posting this last night I've discovered the term for this type of swindle is "change-raising" and have found plenty of information available about it online.

I was going to bring that up but didn't want to confuse things. Short changing came from the days when the guy selling tickets and a carnival worked behind a tall pedistal. When you pay the ticket guy would put your change on the table top and because of the height you would reach up to get it after he counted it out in front of you. Problem is he would keep some of the change held back with the idea being you wouldn't grab it. If you realized it and kicked up a fuss he would say 'yeah mate, you didn't take your change, be more careful next time', if you didn't come back it stayed in his pocket.

"Have you got two tens for a five? Oh, I'm sorry, I meant to ask if you had two twentys for a ten?"

Expert Gambling Tricks by Nick Trost has a few Short Change swindles in it, along with plenty of other types of scams along similar lines.

From the Scoundrels site

http://www.chefanton.com/scoundrelsstore......ucts.htm

Change Raisers - by W.M. Tucker

Might be what you are looking for.

Hej,

get paul zenons tape..he does a graet routine with two bartenders. he takes a bill from one bartender, signs it, then slips it to an accomplice. the accomplice then cahnges that bill with the second bartender, who puts the signed bill into cash register number two.

acc gets the value of the bill back in change, then magician tells barkeep ¤1 the signed bill is in the other register. if you don't give the money back you have broken the law, but its a fun routine.

regards,

geoff diamond.

Check out the Encyclopedia of Scams. I give the full explanation of change rising and some other change variations.

I did these on national television a few months back for a current affairs program.

Abbott: Lend me $30...
Costello: I only have a $20....
Abbott: Ok..Give me the $20, and you owe me $10...

There was a good stint on this on the BBC3 program the Real hustle. The cute one in the low cut top (Jess) always got away with it ....I’m a thinking there eyes were not on the money!

I first saw that scam on the old movie Paper Moon, like thirty yrars ago.

Another reason to buy from Whit:

From the Scoundrels site:

Change Raisers - by W.M. Tucker $6.95

new

From Amazon.com

The Change Raisers (Paperback)
by W. M. Tucker (Author)

$193.48
+ $3.99shipping

Used - Very Good

If you want an excellent routine to do look at Jim Steinmeyers Bunco!, it is very good.

When I trained retailers about this, I had a couple of videos that showed the routine and a step by step instruction. It can be real confusing to the retailer. I highly recommend Tuckers book "The Change Raisers". You will find some good info in there to help you with this.

Glenn

I hve teh book and am oing to sell soon. But NOT for $193 that's un real. Ill go for $3.99 with $100 shipping. Only joking. But I will be listing it soon.

See Real hustle on Youtube...

This one is my favorite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6ezOYm6MHs

I like this one too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIIz2FAgwcw

Another book is Ralph Mayer's Short Changed (Micky Hades Int. 1977).