shenzhenren's story of Thievery, part XXXVIII inspired a lot of people to tell their stories of thieves, including john's holiday thievery and matt's lock your doors, too! here is mine.
a thief guru doesn't steal money from you, he just waits for your invitation, to invite him to steal money from you.
yes, some of you will call him a swindler, i call him a thief guru.
last year we organized a forum, and sent out invitations to some media guys. a call came back and one of my people picked up the call, “hello, may i help you?”
“yes, i am from China Central Televison, i heard from my friends that you are organizing a big forum. may i attend?”
“from CCTV? sure, it's our honor to have CCTV report this event. send us your name card and we will pick you up at the airport.”
a few days later, the CCTV guy showed up in the event. he was handsome and talkative and nice. he brought a man with a huge TV camera and shot the whole event from beginning to the end. and they also interviewed a few participants with that huge TV camera.
we treat them (and other media guys) with a lunch and paid his round trip tickets.
the story just begins.
after they returned to beijing, they started to chase one of the event sponsors, which is a big company with a lot of advertising money. and the CCTV guy talked with that company in a hotel room about advertising for that company in CCTV with “very reasonable prices”.
after the event, i found this CCTV guy's name card looks a little bit strange, i couldn't tell where went wrong, but my gut feeling was telling me i should call CCTV immediately. i called and CCTV didn't have anyone with that name.
i contacted with that company and police and we developed a plan to catch this “CCTV guy”. but strangly enough, that company called that guy and his mobile phone stopped functioning.
p.s. i think that huge TV camera is also a fake one. they shot all the event with nothing inside of the camera. we are just like fools :(
compare with the thief guru, this little thief is nothing