Dozens of Travellers have been deported from New South Wales, Australia in the past ten months for conning innocent members of the public with shoddy repair jobs.
New South Wales Fair Trading reveal that most of the 39 conmen, largely from Ireland, were forcibly removed from the country after convictions for a range of offenses, the Brisbane Times reports. Others fled the country having realized they would be charged.
Anthony Roberts, Minister for Fair Trading, launched a crackdown on the conmen. In the past year 35 people have been prosecuted for 121 breaches of the law and more than AUD$300,000 in fines have been handed down.
Robert says he is working with Irish authorities and the media to send a message to these conmen.
He said “The vast majority of Irish people in Australia, probably 99 per cent, are great people but for those few bad apples that come here to rip us off, they are the scourge of the modern Western world.
“They don't have any qualms about ripping off the elderly or the vulnerable and see nothing wrong or immoral about how they operate or the fact that they are very dangerous and violent.”
The Fair Trading Ministry reported that in one case a 70-year-old Double Bay woman gave an Irish Traveller three checks, to the value of AUD$35,000, to fix her roof. He cashed AUD$23,000 of the checks before fleeing the country.
In another case an Irish Traveller convinced three elderly couples that he was an engineer. They each paid AUD$4,000 for his services. He was caught, fined $90,091 and deported.
Roberts explained that the conmen operated by offering exceptional deals on home improvements. He said “might be a $10,000 job but they say they can do it for $2000 and then they use cheap water-based paint that will be running down the roof the first time it rains.
“They then tell the poor elderly home owner that it will actually be $5000 and they go from two nice smiling Irishmen to turning up with five threatening individuals who take you down to the ATM to get the money.”
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.seanomelb | Sep 01, 2012, 08:44 PM EDT
According to the international HDI index Australia pipped Norway as the best country to live in the last two years. Melbourne is rated on an international scale as the best city to live in, enough said. So my dear uneducated friend this post is no longer valid. Now move on like a good little boy.
paddyRanger | Aug 31, 2012, 10:44 AM EDT
Wrong again Seaney....nobody said it was the US...and why am I not surprised you are unable to google even and find the list, what a failure you are...failed racist retired businessman ...
seanomelb | Aug 30, 2012, 11:04 PM EDT
Unable to find a country!! it certainly is not the good old US of A. And while your at it look up the international index for the most livable city in the world and weep.
paddyRanger | Aug 30, 2012, 10:49 AM EDT
Do your own research, cretin, .......it's easy google it even a moron like you should be able to manage that, failed businessman
seanomelb | Aug 29, 2012, 07:18 PM EDT
Who tops the list bottom dweller
paddyRanger | Aug 29, 2012, 02:36 PM EDT
Nobody is jealous of a failure like you....cheak is a typo you moron. check and you will see Australia does not top the list for highest standard of living. talk about being a bellend cretin
IrelandNorth | Aug 29, 2012, 07:19 AM EDT
Mind you, being transported from a former penal colony has got to take the biscuit. Speaks volumes for members of the Travelling Community, which are considered an ethnic subgroup in the Cenus of Population, rather than Irish proper. Australian Customs/Immigrations must be too busy vetting bona fides tourists to let these slip through.
seanomelb | Aug 28, 2012, 08:56 PM EDT
The word is category dumbbell and what is cheak? you jealous little git
paddyRanger | Aug 28, 2012, 08:02 AM EDT
Curitiba.......same way seanomelb got in there is no catagory for failed conman racist "businessman"...........retired businessman equals failure
Curitiba | Aug 28, 2012, 04:03 AM EDT
I don't understand. How were they let in in the first place? Is there a category for "conman" on the Skilled Occupations List? How many points do you get for that?
paddyRanger | Aug 27, 2012, 10:04 PM EDT
Nobody is jealous of a failure...sunshine, and you need to cheak what country is consistenty rated the highest living standard in the world, hint it AINT OZ...and poor Oz letting in vermin...they love you like they do cockroaches
seanomelb | Aug 27, 2012, 07:14 PM EDT
They love me down here moron paddy your only jealous of my lifestyle here in Ozland.I'm here Dompedro!! what do you want a ray of sunshine,a golden beach or the best living standard in the world!! all you have to do is get here
fiddlinvet | Aug 27, 2012, 06:35 PM EDT
Well it takes two to tango.... or should I say one that does you, and one that gets done.
Eamonn12 | Aug 27, 2012, 12:36 PM EDT
Now if we could only get them deported from Rathkeale.
Dompedro | Aug 27, 2012, 11:52 AM EDT
Re: photo ..... Brisbane isn't in New South Wales
Dompedro | Aug 27, 2012, 11:48 AM EDT
Re; photograph --- Brisbane isn't in New South Wales Where's Seanomelb?
paddyRanger | Aug 27, 2012, 08:52 AM EDT
About time Australia deports that cretin "seanomelb" as well..for polluting the air down there