Quote Originally Posted by cofi View Post
my friends restaurant was just the victim of a pretty clever scam.....

a guy goes in to his restaurant wearing nice clothes and asks the hostess for a manager that was not working at the time(larry) she brought out the on staff manager....the guy tells him that he was dining in the resturaunt 2 weeks ago and a waiter spilled wine on his shirt he said he spoke with larry (the other manager) and that larry had authorized him to go get it dry cleaned and bring in the bill and he would be reimbursed....so the on duty manager gave the guy 35$ out of petty cash and didnt really think too much about it

later on that day when larry gets there he explains that no waiter spilled wine on anyone and that he hadnt autherized this guy to get dry cleaning done.....so they call the dry cleaner to try to track this guy down and it turns out that someone had stolen a couple of books of blank tickets and had done this to DOZENS of restaurants that week
That is an old, small scale grift. Grifting has been around as long as people. Plenty of educational material out there, but like everything else in life, the best way of getting good at something is to get out there and practice... Oh, and everyone gets caught now and then.

http://www.loststudies.com/1.2/art_of_grift.html