In my youth, when I would hang around wine bars trying to look cool and being totally ignored by the fairer sex, I knew a chap called Smart Pete.
Smart because he always wore Jacket and Tie. Smart Pete moved into car leasing. The business worked like this. It advertised for people in financial hardship with car leases that they could no longer afford to pay. They approached the car owner (Mr Smith) and offered they could relieve them of the problem and take the car of their hands. The business would legally take possession of the car, for zero payment, sell the car, pocket the cash and ignore the phone calls when the real leaser of the car came back to the unsuspecting Mr Smith. This may sound like a scam, and indeed it was. But ...
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