In the same vein, I used to know a guy who did that with a whole house. He found a house where the owners were on holiday, broke in, went back out and found an old lady walking along, and sold it to her. She gave him her life savings – 10k. The people came back and found the old lady living in there. He went to jail… Before that, he was the highest scoring UK salesman for a top-league insurance/savings company.
You could do what with a hangar-queen plane, too. Plenty of them around.
Peter wrote:
You could do what with a hangar-queen plane, too.
With free on-line public access to local registers like G-INFO and the French DGAC database, that makes it easy to suss out the shysters. I had a client that was interested in a Cirrus on G reg that turned out to be a scam – took me all of 5 minutes to uncover that one …
In same vein – OTH, N reg’d Trusts are opaque so it is not always that easy to positively ID the “real” owner before deposits etc are exchanged.
