From laidlaws at hotkey.net.au  Sun May 17 13:34:55 2009
From: laidlaws at hotkey.net.au (Doug Laidlaw)
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 13:34:55 +1000
Subject: [Boykett-announce] OT: Black Saturday scam
Message-ID: <200905171334.56046.laidlaws@hotkey.net.au>

We tend to think that people who would make money out of Black Saturday's fires 
aren't in Australia.  Think again!  A man from Neilborough, just north of 
Bendigo, is in custody this week-end, on charges of soliciting unwanted cars 
for locals who had lost theirs in the fires (there were 18 lost,) getting them 
made roadworthy for free as a charity job, then selling them online and 
pocketing the proceeds.  He claimed to have the support of our Mayor and our 
local M.P.   A bail justice left his bail application for the Magistrate on 
Monday.  The front page story can be read at

http://covers.ruralpress.com/cover.asp?pubid=177&foldername=F&size=2&type=p

That is a PDF.  The link looks incomplete, but it works.  He doesn't look like 
a scammer.  Jenny tells me that a woman in this Village donated a car, but she 
doesn't think that it was to this scam.

Doug.

Indexer, http://www.ryersonindex.org/