Fraudster made £550,000 selling fake 'Scottish-grown tea' (www.bbc.co.uk)

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For me the amazing thing about this story is not that some chancer shipped in a load of tea from elsewhere and repackaged it as Scottish, but that he kept the scam going for a decade or more and was only found out when the local council checked to see if he had a food handling licence.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Why are they all called Tommy Robinson 😂

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

This is such an implausible scam that he should have gotten away with it. But not all is lost. He should relaunch the product with small print ‘not’ in front of Scottish-grown tea.

this post was submitted on 30 May 2025

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