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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8Jack Russell says these people still operate astutely and con people from money; often the vulnerable; foreigners in service jobs;
Outcome Shame not for the perpetrator but for those so deceived.
Bed and breakfasts were the target into 2000 but now it appears to be the sale of bibles???????
Has anyone any information on this.
I woke to hear the news. Alert I listened for details and what an accident waiting to happen.
30 people paying over Euros1,150 for the same apartment. This being the deposit. First, why did they think they were getting such a bargain.....the Landlord normally pays all costs relating to the tenants.
Then if our Government were more adept at Regulation within the Industry of Estate Agents, Architects, Prooperty Management Companies and promoted the recent Private Members Bill in the Dail about Management of Multi-Storey buildings.......then people might want to work in a transparent way through estate agents who regularise paperwork and ensure that the function of the newly appointed PRTB.
We talk of Corporate Governance, Transaparency, Ethics but so long as we fail to regulate markets particularly the construction industry, we make rods for our backs in the black economy.
We know that we have 30 known people willing to pay cash for whatever reason but how many more
Have we learnt anything from the Tribunals and the need for Morality based on reason.
Michelle Clarke.
Is this some kind of code? Or a new dialect of English? Because I can't for the life of me figure out what on earth you're talking about.....
it is about vulnerability and Con Artists. It just happens that today one of the best scams of all was pulled in the Sweepstakes Apartment Complex (the one with expensive apartments and behind Closed Gates).
30 people are said to have been caught out......I would suggest a lot more but they are shame faced to admit that they were attracted to a below average rent for an above value apartment/property!!!!
Where is the common sense factor? Would this happen say in the Thomas Street Area. Will it happen in the future in the proposed SOHO endeavour.
Hope you work this out.
'Mad as a hatter by times'!!!!!!
My Head Hurts!!!!! I sure don't mind criticism and I can understand when another cannot understand what I write or thinks I write in a code.
However, since you made the comment, you must have derived something and that my explanation deserved a reply.
What is the latest scam, I wonder. I noted in today's paper that Gardai in Irishtown are treking one suspect and have put pay to the rumour mill of a Foreign Prostitution racket......but these rackets exist all the same and vulnerable people, from Ireland or abroad, and those predators with no respect for people are deserving of the attention of an alert society to abuse.
Let's promote the concept of Restorative Justice. It has worked in other countries.
Michelle
John Hume quote 'Diversity in Unity'
Just catching up with all the newswire items I missed while busy in the last while. When I saw the title for this, I thought it was about the wedding dress shop that went into liquidation in Cork. As I started to read it I realised it wasn't. I have a rule of thumb. If after the first three paragraphs a piece makes no sense to me and I can't figure out the argument being made, I just stop reading. Clarity is an issue here - myheadhurts is right on that score.
On a news site where everyone can post quality control will always be a problem. But generally I do understand what's being said. Here I don't.
The one non-sequitor I understood, I don't agree with - Joe Duffy is not the conscience of the country. He deals in tabloid radio. If he exposes con artists it's just because it makes good radio. The proliferation of the hang 'em, flog 'em brigade on that show regarding prisoners is worrying. Joe Duffy deals in the herd/mob mentality.
I accept your argument i.e. the argument that your conclusion is that I make no sense whatsoever and your perception of Joe Duffy.
Are you PD? The point in the middle about Civic Guards and MI5 MI6 UK concept may have been to broad a point re. the conmen who preys on the vulnerable and greedy!!!!!i. i.e. Sweepstakes but its is albout crime and ideas and social capital.
Crime takes from the fund that ought to be helping the mentally ill people in this country. I would suggest that it is all in our best interest to curb petty crime that causes heartship often to the vulnerable and is to petty for police work. If you have been a guest of Public Health mental services in this country, you might want skip read to three paragraphs max......but then maybe you are a doctor/lawyer/psychiatrist?
I would suggest two films to englighten you (third paragraph)...bored.....
One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest
A beautiful Mind
and Lets add in a third......Patch Adams....
In the mean time the Conmen are up-streaming each other; scam follows scam; and soon it will be similar to European property Scams that obliterate very relevant facts in the sale of property.
How about catching up on this...........? It might help perseverance and test the real intelligence that ought lie therein i.e. before your arrogance.
Michelle Clarke Recall we are being taught in systems and structures from a US model........Is this necessarily correct!!!!!
Gandhi 'You got to be the change you want to see in the World'
By the way Joe Duffy today spoke to the people collecting the census forms.......Shame on us, we have forgotten fear, compassion
Media highlights the plight of the victim but plants the idea in the head of a nother criminal.....someone ready to defraud a fellow human being, looking to rent basic accommodation who are willing to pay rent and a deposit in advance.
This makes you vulnerable when gaining a property is difficulty given the buoyant letting economy presently and particularly in areas like D4, D6 and D2.
A little advice: stick to a reputable estate agent, pay the due rent and deposit and the PRTB is the tribunal that exists to settle disputes. It is recently set up. It is better to be safe than sorry. Con men don't deserve funds received by decption.
Michelle Clarke
Then the other scam is that spoken by Mr. Ahern and the Electoral Register. It is important for us to remember just how hard our forefathers/mothers fought to gain the right to vote for Democracy. I watched a token democracy set up in Zimbabwe and I watched the lines of people who stood for the first time to vote, I recall the importance they attached to it and how many travelled from rural areas. How sad it is to see how fraud at an electoral register level can distort figures in such a Country and leave it impoverished and humanity near distruction. We ought to value our vote and participation in society.
All people must be regarded as equal and wealth ought never be a tool to corrupt and suppress them.
Michelle Clarke
I cannot resist this quotation because today we have forgotten what it is to think and there are high prices paid for this
Adolf Hitler
''What good fortune for those in power that people do not think!'