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Russian Scam Artists: In Pictures

by | 17th, October 2009
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IN Russia, they don’t sell the Big Issue. If they did someoneĀ  would only distil it and mix it with anti-freeze to form an enlivening cocktail. The poor are forced to beg.

And with no time to relay a sympathetic back story the poor are forced to look poor, frail and preferably disfigurerd – not hideosly to deter people from looking but just enough to elicit sympathy.

Of course not everyone is genuine. Some beggars aren’t even all that poor. Anorak takes a look:

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Posted: 17th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True Comment | TrackBack | Permalink