Farmer fishing
Farmer catching refers to a type of deception up to and including fraud in which it is assumed that a contractual partner either does not understand the modalities or overreads relevant passages ( small print ). The name comes from the Thirty Years' War , in which mercenary army recruiters often first made peasants drunk and then signed a recruitment contract that they could no longer read.
In the 19th century, the term was explained by the fact that in big cities like Berlin scammers lurked at the train stations and travelers coming from the country, who were overwhelmed by the unfamiliar business in the foreign city, "caught" with false friendliness as victims. They relieved the “farmers” of their travel money through fraudulent gambling, the promise of help with the job search or similar.
Today the term is used in general for fraudsters who trick their victim with false promises or taking advantage of his ignorance: A classic example of this is the profit promise sent by post , in which supposedly high profits are promised but ultimately never paid out. The sole purpose of this farm trapping is to sell goods overpriced or to rip off money directly. This also applies to coffee trips where the organizer's only goal is a sales event with overpriced goods.
A special variant of Bauernfängerei are so-called Useless provider that Internet OVERALL offer a bid it in a similar way to other Internet sites are free, but that is connected on its side with a hidden invoicing, this is usually associated with a subscription .
The warning "Nepper, Schlepper, Bauernfänger" was used as a subtitle in the television program Caution Trap! ( ZDF ) with Eduard Zimmermann on the winged word .
See also
- Shanghai (recruiting seafarers for war and merchant ships as well as temporarily for the army supplement)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The peasant catchers of Berlin . In: Illustrirte Zeitung (Leipzig) from March 16, 1872.
- ↑ In the episode of December 9, 1978 Zimmermann explained the term with the above-described fraudsters at the train stations in the 19th century: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkW4_BIJI74 .
