Shell Game in Stockholm Old Town May 2012

This is the crew which has played three shell game in the Stockholm Old Town for years. This time, they have a younger man in training, to carry on the legacy.



The young man came to block my view after a while:

The guy in a white jacket pretends to be a Chinese tourist:

The female shill tries to play, but is generally ignored by the thimble rigger during this session:

The thimble rigger tries to get some marks to make a bet:

This guy has operated the thimble rigging for years, but is now doing the lookout duty. He normally wears a hat when playing the matchstick boxes, to avoid being recognized:

The scammers are driving a dark blue VW Passat sedan with Swedish registration plates STH-959, and a dark blue VW Bora with SWJ-292.

The cars are registered to:

Agim Zeqiri, born 11:e juli 1964, phone: 070-496 08 96

Senapsgatan 12 Lgh 1102

424 43 Angered

and

Nazmi Haxhija, born 1:e january 1972, phone: 031-714 19 16

Almgården 7  

424 39 Angered   

Shell Game in Stockholm on July 7th, 2011

The gang of scammers was back to Stockholm after their Copenhagen visit earlier in the summer. They try to convince other people to make bets, by pretending to be betting, and usually winning. When a person who is not from the gang tries to make a bet, he will surely lose the money.

Here they are in Västerlånggatan, central Gamla Stan. In the end of the video, they try to convince the mark with the white shirt to play.



The woman is a fairly new addition to the scammers.

















Some of them speak quite good German. In the end of a video, they try to make a German tourist stop photographing, but in the end of the video, they give up and leave.

This is the same kind of scamming that has been going on in Geneve lately, where it is called "bonneteau".