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Thread #155288   Message #3652288
Posted By: Musket
20-Aug-14 - 02:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: Palm Reading Scams in London
Subject: RE: BS: Palm Reading Scams in London
I am sure there are some people who look like they come from The West Indies, although how you could distinguish them from someone from West Africa or Westminster at a glance must take some doing. Wearing a turban, well to be fair there are a number of ethnic people from the India sub continent living in The West Indies, especially Trinidad, and quite a few of them are indeed Sikhs. A family up the road come from Trinidad and are Sikhs. They look and sound very India sub continent though, even to this weary traveller.

Be buggered if I could tell you they were West Indian at a glance though. Indian, maybe, but I'd be out by a good few thousand miles..

I suppose someone from The West Indies, wearing their cricket shirt, recovering from neurosurgery could be identified as a West Indian with a turban at a glance....

My term "prosaic " was my attempt at being polite....




Most scam merchants, if they are any good at it, try to blend in and not have many distinguishing features in case of police descriptions.