CONFIDENCE TRICK.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5452, 24 July 1929, Page 3

CONFIDENCE TRICK.

WELLINGTON MAN ROBBED. A Wellington resident, Mr M. Dixon, who is staying at a London hotel, was tricked out of £750 by confidence men vzith a story that they had a fortune to dispense among charities. “I would like to see the confidence man-who could take me down,” was what Mr Dixon told the confidence man who relieved him of £750. Mr Dixon informed the Australian Press Agency that he had considered himself proof against any confidence man. He had travelled for four months through various parts of Europe before reaching London, but had only been seen in London three days before he fell to the “old inheritance” trick “I do not know what my friends in New Zealand and Australia will think of me being such a fool, but 1 -.vill guarantee that nine out of any ten people I know would have fallen also. All through I was guarded and suspicious, but at the last moment the whole, thing seemed so real that I handed over money. My aJvice to New Zealanders and Australians coming to London is don’t hand over any money to anyone.”