News and Politics | August 21, 2008 | 9 comments

UK newspaper unearths guide for Poles on how to cheat UK government

source: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1588415.ece

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Polish magazine Przeglad reportedly published a dossier explaining how Polish people can cheat their way through Britain's rules and regulations.

The Sun calls it the 'spongers’ guide' and claim it 'shows how to dodge electricity bills, rent flats for free, pay no tax and swindle insurance companies because British laws are “too soft”.'

Criminal experts from Poland have said cheating the system is a way of life for some Poles after living under Communist rule for decades.

“Once you’ve cheated the Communist government and the Iron Curtain and the Soviet states, running rings around British Gas is child’s play,” they explained.


And here's a few of the handy hints they provided:

- Not paying rent once they move in as tenancy laws mean it will be months before they’re evicted. In the meantime the property is sublet to more Poles.

- Opening electricity and gas accounts with bogus personal details.

- Claiming your mobile phone has been stolen. Once the insurers pay out, the cheats pocket the cash and sell the phone back home in Poland for a £100 profit.
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9 comments // UK newspaper unearths guide for Poles on how to cheat UK government

  • abbym0308
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      abbym0308  

    • It's sad because things like this, even if only carried out by a small portion of individuals, make it harder for all the other immigrants to get in to the country and a life in the UK.

    • 4 years ago
  • Tommyjolly
  • Beta_Boy
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      Beta_Boy  

    • God help us all if the Daily Mail find out. We'll be marching to the borders with our farm tools and torches trying to scare the foreign people away.

      I totally agree with teddy14. The something for nothing culture is far more damaging.

    • 4 years ago
  • ConTrick
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      ConTrick  

    • I reckon that somewhere in the human brain, there's some as yet undiscovered 'outrage center', and that this has significantly swollen in our species since the dawn of tabloid mass media.

      Am I wrong, or do people buy newspapers *just* so they can get angry at this sort of shit? Sometimes I wonder how our need for scapegoats in day to day life can really be so overwhelming as to fund whole media empires.

      There I go... "blame the media"... There's no hope for any of us! We're doooooooomed!

    • 4 years ago
  • Emil_G
  • teddy14
  • Tommyjolly
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      Tommyjolly  

    • Don't start generalising things like those people in thesun.co.uk - comments section.
      My girlfriend is polish & she's always shocked about the prejudices, english people have towards them.

    • 4 years ago
  • Mattslaw
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      Mattslaw  

    • this is the sun we are talking about now. honestly i wouldn't trust anything they say, they are sutbly racist near constantly, and lets be fair, their "facts" are dubious most of the time.

    • 4 years ago
  • joshuaheller
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