For the last couple of months on Polish internet forums a question of Irish thieves has been discussed. The most often reported thievery is a couple of Irish guys in the car trying to sell on the street expensive notebook Sony Vaio for only 400 Euro, or other electronic equipment like digital cameras or mobile phones. Those guys in a car are operating mostly in Dublin and surroundings, and the procedure is very simply. They stop the car aside of you, and they are trying to sell expensive notebook. You can touch it, you can even check it how it works, then they are put it into the notebook case/bag and when you are counting the money they change the bags and you get a notebook bag with Argos catalogue or 2 cardboard boxes of milk for 400 Euro.
They have been seen and reported by many Polish people, and luckily only a few of them have been fooled. Of course those who wanted to buy stolen goods have been taught a lesson, but it seems that some Irish try to make easy money and they asume that Poles are completely naïve.
This is a scam is not just an Irish thing, it happens in the UK and I’m sure many other places also. There’s confidence trickers in every country!
I’m fairly confident that all thieves are actually Irish, in one way or another. I had proof of it somewhere, but then one quarter of me stole it from the rest of me and sold it in order to buy a green vest.