Alloy2 - I hope this is appropriate to add to your thread, dishonesty is just what it is BAD! As always I feel most people are honest, hardworking and try to do the right things for themselves and others. As your thread demonstrates, that dishonesty and profiting at the expense of others, causes all of us problems. Those that steal, cheat and defraud will almost always get caught and when their activity is fully exposed, they are not only criminals but, "Stupid" criminals.

They do us all wrong, Damage is done and at great expense to the majority that work hard to make a honest living. The scrap industry unfortunately has been labeled "dirty", for many reasons. These outright criminals make it even harder for the majority of us that know, there is no easy money in the scrap business. Educating ourselves we can work smarter, so that our work is profitable, gratifying and recognized as needed by all!

We cannot and should not tolerate a "bad scrapper", should not be tolerated at any level. A thief stealing cooper from a construction sight, a bus thief and yard owner working together for "fast money", are one in the same, a STUPID CRIMINAL.

Bad scrappers are everywhere, sometimes stealing for just small gain and sometimes for millions of dollars. I pointed out a case here in California on another thread that was about CRV fraud. This one case is yet another example of bad scrappers, this involved many people, all of them knew it was not legal. Some making a little "fast money" and a handful of yard owners making millions of dollars. Who paid the most for their crimes?



Here is just a paragraph about this California CRV fraud case: Officials also say more than a dozen private recycling centers in Southern California are on the hook for playing a part in the scam, because they accepted the Arizona recyclables. Though all centers are responsible for determining where a container came from, in this case those involved were operated by or in cahoots with the fraud ring, CalRecycle noted.

This is a link to the full story:recycling ripoff