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so I went to the zoo what a ripoff the

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only animate had was one dog was a shih

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tzu it's a joke

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she'd soon as a tough dog and zoo

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today wasn't about the words ripoff scam

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calm conman and different vocabulary and

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expressions to talk about cheating and

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deception so if you get beat

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hello and welcome to lip and talk and

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the first word is rip off the word rip

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up means to pay far too much for

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something it's a noun a report and a

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verb to rip off or to rip somebody off

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so if something is much too expensive

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and the quality is poor you would say I

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was ripped off or it was a rip off and I

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was ripped off recently

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I was in Venice and we'd been walking

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around all day and we reached the Piazza

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San Marco and we decided to take a drink

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now I knew it was going to be expensive

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because I'm from London and I live in

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Paris so I know what expensive means

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however when we got the bill it was a

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shock it was 18 euros for one beer 18

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euros for one Campari 36 euros in total

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plus a cot and obligatory for Euro tips

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at 40 euros quite a shock so we thought

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we were really ripped off so careful if

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you're in Venice now generally speaking

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a ripoff is not illegal

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it just means paying much too much for

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something however the next word scam is

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illegal we use this word to talk about

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people illegally trying to get your

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money it's a verb to scam and a noun a

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scam and person that it is a scammer so

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there is an old story about a scammer

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who used to look in the obituaries

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columns and the bitter II column is a

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notice for the dead they put in a

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newspaper and he found the addresses of

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the people who have died recently and

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then he sent them a bill for

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and umbrella now the family who received

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the bill assumed that he or she had

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ordered it before he died and because it

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was a small amount they paid the bill

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without question and apparently this was

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a very successful scan and the scammer

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got very rich because of it

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unfortunately one day he got caught and

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the reason he got caught was because he

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sent the bill to the address of somebody

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who had been in bed for the last twenty

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years and the family got suspicious they

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called the police

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and he ended up in jail or maybe you've

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received an email from someone saying

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something like oh my uncle died and he

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left me one hundred million dollars

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which I need to get out the country if

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you help me then I'll give you ten

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percent well let me tell you something

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it's a scam okay and also as you know

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that game where you have three cards and

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you have to find the Queen people came

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the street that's a scam you cannot win

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and yet there are still people that play

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it and get scammed to all these people

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so the next word is calm which is a verb

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and a noun to con and the con the word

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comes from the word confidence a con is

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a type of scam but here someone brings

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you into their confidence they are very

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convincing and you trust them and then

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when you believe what they say they con

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you a con man or con woman is the person

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who does it and if they're really good

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you might call them a con artist

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probably the most famous con artist of

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all time is somebody called

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Victor Lustig who in 1925 managed to

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sell the Eiffel Tower yes it's true

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he sold it to a group of really scrap

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metal dealers a scrap metal dealer is

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somebody who buys old metal and then

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resell it for a profit anyway he managed

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to convince them that the Eiffel Tower

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was being taken down anyway it was it

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was a great con he made a lot of money

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and he did some many other remarkable

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cons in his career but as you'd expect

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in the end he got caught and he ended up

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in prison

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I also heard the story of a con that's

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been happening recently in Paris it's a

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story of a man who wears a beautiful

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Italian suit and he stops women in the

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street and he tells them that he's lost

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his wallet and he urgently needs to get

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to to get back to nice for a job

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interview and if only they could lend

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him the money as soon as he gets a nice

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he will send it back to them of course

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it's a con they never get their money

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back ok well there you are

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so if if you've been ripped off or

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you've been stabbed or conned you can

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tell your story in the comments and if

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you are a scammer then don't do it

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find something more useful to do with

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your life ok thank you for watching and

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