Deposit fraudsters: You can make good money by returning bottles. Above all, criminals know this and use the deposit system with crazy tricks.
- Some fraudsters try to make money with deposit bottles .
- Perfidious tricks are used for this.
- The employees of two discounters talk about the craziest deposit bottle loops.
Munich - The concept of the deposit bottle should not least benefit the environment. However, petty criminals want to take advantage of the business behind it. Fraudsters always come up with something new to get more deposit proceeds with fewer bottles.
To do this, they have perfect stitches in stock that they use to trick the supermarket staff and ultimately commit a crime . However, employees often track down fraudsters and sometimes bring out hair-raising crimes with the deposit bottles to light.
Pledge fraudsters: They trick the supermarket staff with these crazy tricks
Do the tricksters ever practice casting in their spare time as hobby anglers at lakes? One does not know. However, real fishing talent is not absolutely necessary in what is now the most well-known and common scam on deposit machines.
As employees of the two major discounter chains Aldi * and Lidl compared to chip.de *, a line is attached to a deposit bottle during the fishing trick . This is then inserted into the deposit machine, drawn in and pulled out again using the cord - after it has been accepted by the system, validated and actually sent on on a conveyor belt. The fraudsters fish the bottle out of the machine and the game starts again. They want to redeem the same liquid container several times as a deposit.
In the meantime, however, this possibility has been prevented, since the devices recognize the return process and alert the staff. However, it is often difficult to report the perpetrators , because in most cases the bottle anglers escape: "Many flee, " said a Lidl employee.
Deposit fraudsters: They fake labels and use them to stick to toilet paper rolls
Another popular attempt to use the deposit system for his machinations is to stick bottle-like objects with the copied logo of the Deutsche Pfandsystem GmbH (DPG). An employee of an Aldi Nord branch * remembers a very special item that was given the fake stickers: it was a toilet paper roll .
To prevent fraud, not only the pawn logo but also the EAN code is now scanned and canceled. If the bottle is crushed and the label can no longer be read by the scanner, the machine reports an error.
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
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