Scammers are back after winter

The scammers are back from their winter hiatus, about two weeks earlier than last year. Here they are doing their normal routine:



There is a total of seven men in the scamming crew. Two are lookouts, one is shuffling the boxes, and the rest pretend to be playing.

The guy on the left is the boss, while the big guy in the center is the thimble rigger, doing the playing. He wears a hat when playing, to avoid being recognized.







Here is one of the lookouts:



They 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
Senapsgatan 12 Lgh 1102
424 43 Angered

and

Nazmi Haxhija
Fjäderharvsgatan 42 Lgh 1201
424 66 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".