Nikon DSLR fraud involved false 'BBC' purchase order

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[parisian]

You would think that Ross would be able to afford one wouldn't you rather than going through this charade?

[Lazza]

Meanwhile, the Dorset-based store has revealed some details of how the fraud was carried out.

It received a faxed purchase order, purportedly from the BBC, and was told that a taxi would be sent to collect the gear because it was needed urgently.

Doesn't that Stephen Fry drive a Taxi???

[spinno]

Meanwhile, the Dorset-based store has revealed some details of how the fraud was carried out.

It received a faxed purchase order, purportedly from the BBC, and was told that a taxi would be sent to collect the gear because it was needed urgently.

Doesn't that Stephen Fry drive a Taxi???

and doesn't he cope with his bipolar by going on shopping sprees.....(if you are reading this Stephen ...only joking)

[TimF]

Didn't the great twerp also say he couldn't see why people were so angry about MPs dodgy expenses, cos everybody fiddled them anyway (and if his lawyers are reading this .......tough).

Couldn't have been him anyway, cos everyone knows that the best celebs (excluding a certain V. Beckham) shoots Leica; Eric Clapton, Elle McPherson, Seal, HM the Queen, some bloke out of Coldplay, etc etc)

[TheFatControlleR]

Didn't the great twerp also say he couldn't see why people were so angry about MPs dodgy expenses, cos everybody fiddled them anyway (and if his lawyers are reading this .......tough).

That's how it was reported/misrepresented by some tabloids, etc., but from what I read on his site and 'other media outlets' that's not what was meant, or inferred.

Mind you, if I was heading into a BAFTA function and some 'media twerp' shoved a camera and microphone in my face asking an irrelevant question I'm not sure I could come up with a cohesive statement...

[ermintrude]

Didn't the great twerp also say he couldn't see why people were so angry about MPs dodgy expenses, cos everybody fiddled them anyway

Watch it and decide for yourself

[Barney]

Didn't the great twerp also say he couldn't see why people were so angry about MPs dodgy expenses, cos everybody fiddled them anyway

Watch it and decide for yourself

Probably the most sense spoken by anyone about the MP expenses scandal.

[Photocracy]

I have never fiddled expenses, not ever, nor would I in any circumstances. While I'm sure there are many fiddlers out there, there are also many totally honest folk like me too! I consider anyone entrusted with tax payers' money (or anyone elses) who then help themselves to it for questionable purposes to be corrupt and unfit for public office. Any journalist who fiddles expenses is certainly just as bad, but make no mistake, honest people do exist! Perhaps Stephen Fry has been hanging out with a bad crowd for too long!

[Benchista]

Perhaps Stephen Fry has been hanging out with a bad crowd for too long!

Yeah, journalists.

He's absolutely right in everything he says - except I've never fiddled my expenses.

[Malcolm_Stewart]

Having read the news release, it looks quite like a well thought out sting operation, with sufficiently good knowledge for it to work. So I wonder if someone's got s serious grudge against Robert White? ex-employee?

All they have to do now is to change the external serial numbers a little, and disappear before anyone checks out the EXIF info.

[IvorETower]

Perhaps Stephen Fry has been hanging out with a bad crowd for too long!

Yes, Messrs Cryer, Garden, Brooke-Taylor and Victoria Wood

[Barney]

Couldn't have been him anyway, cos everyone knows that the best celebs (excluding a certain V. Beckham) shoots Leica; Eric Clapton, Elle McPherson, Seal, HM the Queen, some bloke out of Coldplay, etc etc)

Yeah, just like the 'best celebs' choose colonic irrigation and scientology.

[Terrywoodenpic]

Looks like an inside job...
But which end?
or ...Could be an ex employee of either, who knew the system.

[AJUK]

Pwnd

[TimF]

Didn't the great twerp also say he couldn't see why people were so angry about MPs dodgy expenses, cos everybody fiddled them anyway

Watch it and decide for yourself

He's right to say it's trivial compared to the great issues that face us, but, IMHO, wrong to say it doesn't matter. On the contrary it shines a light on the kind of people some of those sitting in the Commons are, or have become.

Amongst the worst Tory offenders, for example, were backbenchers who have been in the House for 20 or 30 years (or longer). I dare say some of these people have completely lost sight of why they entered Parliament in the first place all those years ago, and are just serving out time - another five years there provides a nice boost to the generous pension pot, and if their seat is "safe" who's to reason why.

On the Labour side there have been several instances of people claiming for mortgages which no longer existed - not just amongst backbenchers but also in the cabinet. And similarly some paying no CGT when selling a home by naming one property (the one being sold) as their main home to HMRC and another to the Expenses Office at the Commons.

And just because some journalists fiddle their expenses doesn't make it OK for politicians to do so Mr Fry. Those people are fiddling private employers and face the sack if found out. The politicians are fiddling the taxpayer, over whom they lord it.

[TheFatControlleR]

And just because some journalists fiddle their expenses doesn't make it OK for politicians to do so Mr Fry.

I don't believe he said it was, he said 'How dare they' (journalists) get all righteous & indignant about expenses fiddles.

One thing you can't argue with; "we get the politicians we deserve..."

[Barney]

And just because some journalists fiddle their expenses doesn't make it OK for politicians to do so Mr Fry.

I don't believe he said it was, he said 'How dare they' (journalists) get all righteous & indignant about expenses fiddles.

One thing you can't argue with; "we get the politicians we deserve..."

I think the point about the whole expenses scandal is that all the fuss about MP's claiming for plugs etc, which at the end of the day they were entitled to, has deflected attention away from the fraudsters who deliberately set out to profit from the system.

Secondly, the press is horrendously two-faced. All the sex and drugs scandals they so self righteously 'expose' when as a collective, they're a bunch of coke fuelled deviants. I haven't got a problem with that, but I do have a problem with their 'do as we say, not as we do' attitude.

[spinno]

it has always been the same....those who think they know best they tell us how to live our lives whilst at the same time they live by a different code...

[TimF]

And just because some journalists fiddle their expenses doesn't make it OK for politicians to do so Mr Fry.

I don't believe he said it was, he said 'How dare they' (journalists) get all righteous & indignant about expenses fiddles

The point is the impression given is that Fry believes we should shoot the messenger because they aren't whiter than white rather than listen to the message. Pretty much the same thing in my book, especially when backed up by him looking directly at the camera and saying "You've fiddled them" (meaning the watching public).

I'd be interested to know how many (if any) journos have claimed expenses amounting to tens of thousands of Pounds on a yearly basis, without a quizzical eyebrow being raised in that department of their employer.