How to: Scam Cashiers and make them give you extra change

How to: Scam cashiers and trick them in to giving you more change than you deserve

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Okay now hear me out on this one, it may seem a little confusing at first but it is very very simple! The confusion is what makes it work, without it the cashier would easily be able to spot what you are trying to do.

Now the proper term for this is known as change raising which increases the amount of change that you are meant to get in return - do not confuse this with what is commonly known as short change.

Usually this can be performed on most cashiers especially those young teenage girls working as cashiers for their summer job with roughly a 90% success rate. Basically because of two reasons, they don't care about the job very much and secondly because they are inexperienced.

1. Prepare a $20 note, and another bunch of small notes adding up to $20 so that you have $40 in total in your wallet. Also make sure you have a few extra dollars in case you need it.
2. Walk in to the shop and casually buy an item that costs roughly $1 and use your $20 note to buy it, apologise for not having smaller change if you get a dirty look from the cashier.
3. When you receive your change($19), pretend that you found a dollar coin at the bottom of your pocket and ask for your $20 note back and say that you would rather pay for the item with the dollar coin because you don't want so much change.
4. The cashier will take the $20 note back out of the register and wait for you to hand back the original change($19) plus an extra dollar making it $20.
5. Now the tricky part is making it appear that you haven't tampered with the $19 worth of change she gave you but really you removed a dollar(from the stack of $19 in change making it only $18) and then clearly add the $1 so she thinks what you are about to give her is the $19 plus $1.
6. Now hand over what she thinks is $20 and take back your $20 note - At the same time.
7. Now just quickly pocket the $20 note. She should count it and realise that you didn't give her $20 but instead only $19, if she doesn't count it ask her to make sure that you have given her the right amount.
8. When she realises that you only gave her $19, apologise and say "Hang on just let me give you another $5... making it $24.. and another ... *whatever you choose*... " until it adds up to $40 and ask her to just give you a $40 note instead.
9. When she hands over the $40 note just thank her politely and walk out.

If you perform this correctly, you would have just walked away with an extra $20.

I know this sounds more confusing than rocket science at the moment but read over it a few times and you'll get it. The trick is that when you gave her $19 and you were meant to give her another $1, you gave her $5 making it $24 and as you kept adding more money her concentrating was shifted on to the counting arithmetic as you were adding the notes up to $40 and she forgets that $20 was meant to be hers out of that $40 in the first place.

This video demonstrates a slight variation of the change raise scam described above



Please be aware that it is your responsibility what you do with this information. This blog is in no way asking you to do this or encouraging it. This is purely for educational purposes so you can prevent people from doing this to you.