Wasn't me officer - the corgis made me do it

🐕 UK based lifter 🏋️‍♀️🧬 - side blog to keep track of UK specific advice

[llambiiee-deactivated20251029]

recent haul

total: 570~

[dna-stories]

this isnt a dna story but rather some advice- i dont have my own blog, hope this is ok to submit!

business owners call dnas "friendly fraud." if you google it you'll see how stores try to prevent dnas through softwares that crosscheck your name, billing/shipping address, age of email address, etc. check through reddit for ecommerce owners dealing with chargebacks.

here's a list of protective measures:

1. IDENTITY: use a burner phone number and a dedicated dna email for online shopping accounts. make sure your fake name lines up across these different pieces of "digital id".

2. ONLINE PROTECTION: always block cookies/trackers, i use ublock origin. always use a vpn and a proxy. riseup.net is a good free vpn, i like tor as my browser.

3. PAYMENTS: never use your personal payment method, over time it can get flagged. too many refunds will look sus on paypal, and it could plausibly damage your credit score. use a virtual credit card (ex. koho [canada], privacy [usa], revolut [uk]).

if you are someone that has done multiple dnas, it is VERY LIKELY that your email/ip is implicated in a fraud prevention software database. multiple companies use the same softwares, this is why your orders get cancelled sometimes. change your id often!

dnas may be easy but remember it is fraud which is a crime! act accordingly!

thank you so much to whoever took the time to share these amazing tips. if you have a liftblr, please message me privately so i can give you credit!

excellent advice for newbie and seasoned DNAers.

[liftluvlife-blog]

UK LIFTING SUPERPOST

After browsing lifting blogs for a month or so I haven’t seen much info regarding lifting in the uk so I thought I’d make a post of all my experiences lifting in various shops as well as working in topshop previously

TOPSHOP -always someone placed at the entrance of the store (unless it’s a very small store with 3 SA’s) this is called ‘front cover’ and the job is to call back anyone who beeps and to pace up and down looking down into the shop also, to check for anyone suspicious. They have a radio on them and I’m not sure what the law/official rules are but we were told to ask to check customers bags if they beeped, regardless of if the bag was a topshop carrier bag or the customers own handbag. Our towers also detect magnets by flashing a blue light on the ceiling above the towers. We’re told to smile and say hi to customers including anyone we deem suspicious in order to scare off anyone intending to lift -THERE IS A ROLE CALLED ‘RED ROUTE’ this role is specifically for catching out lifters! The task is to walk a figure of 8 around the store touching a few items but mainly watching and observing the behaviour of customers. This person has a radio but is plain clothed, so no topshop staff lanyard. -recently stores around me ditched the number cards in the fitting rooms and instead counted your items (maximum 7/8) and walked you to the fitting room. We were told to remember faces and items, take jewellery or pants off you and return on your way out. Fitti rooms are checked every 15 minutes and ticked off on a sheet, taking note of hangers tags or stickers in each cubicle. A way to avoid over attentive staff in fitting rooms would be to conceal then detag in the fitting room ( although we were hot on double tagging, told to feel clothes for double tags when customers gave them back) or before closing the person on the fitting rooms is told to tidy the store near the fitting room, then it’d be easy to stroll in with your items -socks and makeup were never tagged or stickered when I worked here but I know this isn’t the case for bigger stores such as London. Jewellery have stickers on but are easy to hide behind your phone then just pick up another item that you don’t want and slip your phone and wanted item into your pocket. Same with wallet -bras are meant to be tagged but honestly due to laziness it’s quite rare -I’ve never see anyone lift even though it’s very certainly happened, we’re only told to keep an eye on suspicious looking people e.g chavvy looking people or big groups of girls -can’t think of any other tips ATM so ask any questions!

H&M -so lazy and unobservant, bras will be un tagged and I always find items of clothing not tagged -fitting rooms rarely manned-If no ones there I take some unwanted clothes in too and just come out with them and make a big deal of putting the unwanted clothes on their table when leaving the fitting room

PRIMARK -one of my favourites!! No tags whatsoever, busy SA’s, big stores and fitting rooms you can work around -they count your items at the fitting room and give you a numbered card, but don’t take the items from your hands or thoroughly check, when going in I normally pretend to slowly count like errrm then they count for me and always miscount as I have tops under tops on my arms. I then conceal these extra items in the fitting room -you can also walk in with say 6 items, conceal 2 in the fitting room and walk out with 4 messy items on your arm. The shop assistants don’t count your items on the way out, they don’t care like at topshop, just say they are good thanks then slip them back around the shop floor while browsing. Easy way to gain 2 pieces of clothing

PAPERCHASE -no cameras, 2/3 staff per store -friendly SA’s just say hello and browse

THE BODY SHOP -a few cameras covering pretty much the entire shop floor due to its open-ness, maybe ½ SA’s helping then 2 on the tills. Recently concealed when there was only 1 SA on the floor and she was busy helping someone, turned my back to the camera walking to look at something on a shelf

IKEA -only tried once messily and the security guard actually helped me out hahaha. Went in with my friend so she could buy her secret Santa, took a shopper bag and filled it with wanted items (was unsure if method would work so also concealed a few small bits in my own bag, plenty of blind spots and opportunities) and went to self checkout. My friend bought her items and I kind of just out the shopper bag on my shoulder while she was paying like I had already just bought it all and was waiting for her. Only problem is the shopper bags they give u to browse with are YELLOW and the bags you buy at the checkouts are BLUE. So on the way out he kind security guard told me I had the wrong bag and would need to buy a reusable bag for my items, went bag and bought one! Walk out method would work as busy and people buy so much stuff in there, next time I would take my blue reusable bag in and fill it up a bit but not so its bulky, then buy some candles and put them in my bag at the checkout. Like when you bring your own empty bags to the supermarket to save the world lol.

TESCO/ASDA -similar to ikea, I can conceal on the shop floor by putting my own bag in the trolley with my food and items, occasionally putting small things in my own bag -I also conceal at self checkout, paying for a few items then bagging the rest -cameras down most Aisles but I either conceal when turning a corner or walking down an aisle with my back to a camera

RIVER ISLAND -very strict and observant -only attempted small jewellery behind my phone or in my palm

BOOTS -notorious for teenage shop lifters, they involve police -some higher priced makeup sticker tagged

NEW LOOK -good near closing time, I noticed all the clutch bags weren’t tagged so put one under my arm while browsing, took clothes to try on and concealed as no one in fitting room -big handbags tagged and all clothes are meant to be

[fuckingposers]

this is awesome thank you! what kind of tags do Topshop/H&M/new look use?

[liftluvlife-blog]

Topshop have round golf tags on all clothing and small versions on bras/bikinis and the hook tags on bags etc :-)

[cutegirl-lifting-blog]

God bless you.

[juni0rlifter-deactivated2017072]

the fuck? topshop sounds so fucking scary!!!!!

[moodymouthful]

I worked at a couple of these places so feel free to ask me anything about them :))

[lifting-queen-uk]

From 2015, may not be relevant anymore, but the t0pshop info is interesting

[bblyfter]

haul from today with my younger sibling lmao

£308.82

why are things so expensive wtf there is nothing here ???

[richlyfter]

recent bits !! got some clothes too i’ll find soon.

[richlyfter]

h0ll4nd and b4rr3t missing item dna for £45 whole order was 65, i’m too scared to do dnas atm esp high price ones but hopefully should be able to do some good ones soon

[slutforlifting-deactivated20200]

UK Lifting Masterpost of Masterposts

for my uk babies 

so UK liftblr has been pretty dead recently, so I’m just gonna make a post cataloguing all my favourite uk masterposts xxx

Stores

General UK Superpost (inc. Topshop, H&M, Primark, etc.)

More General UK Tips (inc. M&S, Primark, Boots etc.)

Topshop Masterpost

Debenhams Masterpost + Debenhams Caught Story

Debenhams + House of Fraser Masterpost

Urban Outfitters Masterpost + UO LP

Selfridges + M&S

Next Masterpost 

Newbie Tips

Boots

Book stores 

Retail Parks

Reddit 

Boosting Thread

Supermarket Masterpost (inc. Tesco, Lidl, Poundland)

Asda + T K Maxx Thread

Easy Places to Lift

Sports Direct Thread

Urban Outfitters UK Magnet Detectors and Tags

Return Scams

Laws & Policies

General Policing

Crimes near you 

Your Local Police Force (inc. social medias, recent crimes reported + lots of stats)

Shoplifting Laws UK

Powers of Security Guards

Theft Act of 1968

Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014

Your Rights

Documentaries

Secrets of the Shoplifters (2004)

Britains War on Shoplifters (2014)

Tesco - The Unusual Suspects (2015)

Articles

Inside the World of Britain’s Professional Shoplifters (2015)

Shoplifters Taking Under £200 Worth of Goods ‘not pursued’ (2017)

will be growing this list, also feel free to point out any broken/deleted links xx

[fairylift-deactivated20251125]

Hey bbs!! Just a list of places ive schammed online (dna= did not arrive, eb= empty box)

Lush DNA+EB (sometimes investigates, ive had a few instant refunds)

Glossier DNA (never investigates, always instant refund)

Amazon DNA (instant refund over chat)

For love and lemons EB £500 (10 day investigation)

Body candy DNA (had to absolutely fight them for a £30 refund)

Boux avenue EB £40 (3 day investigation)

Hollister DNA £100 (never investigates, always instant refund)

shein DNA £500 (mega easy 5 day investigation)

romwe DNA £500 (mega easy 5 day investigation)

zaful DNA (dont reccomend, i had to fight them for a £70 refund)

Foot asylum DNA £80 (3 day investigation you just need to print out a form and fill it out)

Victoria secret DNA £500 (so so easy instant refund in chat, never had an investigation)

Zalanado DNA £250 (i had to print out a form and show proof of id)

New look DNA £250 (5 day investigation)

Holland and barret DNA £250 (8 day investigation)

Beauty bay DNA £80

Apple EB £120 (3 day investigation)

Red bubble DNA (instant refund in chat)

Fuji £80 DNA (im begging you just dont do it absolute hell)

Crazy factory £121 DNA (so easy instant refund over email)

Pets at home £60 DNA (instant refund over chat)

Tarte £80 DNA (instant refund over chat)

[faustlftr]

🧬 masterlist (active aug 2022)

i need a place to track my dñæs.

àmãź0ñ: £26 (aged account, many orders on it prior. instant refund through live chat. easy as, mad i didn't go for more.)

śh31ñ: £88 (aged account, one prior order. doesn't offer an option on live chat so u need to open up a ticket. they will now investigate with your carrier and send u evidence of the package being delivered, but no ppl in the pic so i claimed i did not recognise the door. will refund after that but be warned of the investigation.)

r3dbübbł3: £20 (aged account, took FOREVER. were adamant on reprint and then offering store credit but i told them i didn't want to buy from there again as i was unsatisfied with the quality of their products.)

k0ï f00tw3àr: £100 icl this one made me nervous because they showed POD and when i responded blanked me for two weeks. but they refunded me after that lol

to do: çr0çs, r0mwë, h///m///v, k0ï f00tw3àr

[briannalifts]

SmartShop!

I don't know about countries outside the UK, but over here supermarkets are currently encouraging customers to use a service called 'SmartShop'.

Essentially how it works is they give you a tiny scanning device that you may use to scan your items and put them in your shopping bag as you go.

Which is great for lifters because it means putting items directly in your bag is no longer suspicious.

But to prevent you from just pretending to scan items, the device makes a very loud beeping noise every time you scan one, so obviously just slipping something into your bag with no 'beep' sound will still look like criminal activity.

But!!!

Something that I realized today was that when you use the touchscreen on the device to cancel an item, the scanner doesn't make any sound. So you can go around the store scanning everything, then just as you're about to check out (you do this by going to a self checkout machine and linking it to the scanning device, the self checkout downloads you cart and then you pay there as normal) you can just delete the most expensive items from your cart and save money! There's no weighing involved so the machine can't actually verify what's in your bag.

So long story short, I paid £12 for a £82 shop, saving £70 😳

[lifting-queen-uk]

Honestly one of my favourite methods. But! Stores will now do random checks, where they have to rescan a set number of items (usually between 5 & 15) to make sure you have scanned them, if they find even one item is missed they will rescan the whole shop for you. Staff are meant to check at the bottom of the bag (Policy is actually called BOB at tesco) for un-scanned items, but most dont; especially if you have a tightly packed bag. From experience I've noticed staff don't tend to scan duplicate items, so if I'm buying 2/3 boxes of cereal bars, I'll only scan one and then pack each box in a separate bag (I'm not sure if the quantity shows up on their scanner, but it would be kinda sus if they scanned one, their scanner showed I scanned say "2", but there's just 6 boxes all sitting together). Some scanners allow you to increase the number of items via the touch screen, so usually I scan one, and then pretend to play around on the screen to "add multiples". I have an old battered insulated shopping bag for cold items, there's a small tear on the inside lining which is great for hiding smaller items. I like to rearrange items in my bags anyway so they are balanced and don't have heavy items on top, which is a great opportunity to h!de items

As for not beeping, I usually pretend to scan items (Press the scanner trigger and read near the barcodes) there's normally enough other people around that someone else is beeping to cover your lack of beeping. Anyway, I would suggest trying it out a couple of times first without l!fting to see how your local store works, how frequently random check happen and to figure out the vibes of the staff ; are they kinda lazy; are they super thorough; Does the store have LP/ security in the self-scan / scan as you shop area? (I find morris0ns tend to have s3curity watching over).

[llambiiee-deactivated20251029]

haul:3

school has been tiring lately ive spent all my free time in bed but i finally got out and got myself some new things

total: around 170

[llambiiee-deactivated20251029]

my best haul so far 😭 literally got around 650 in one go

[cha0tic-thief]

Holy shit i have so many hauls from the last like month that i need to post so imma do them all in one rn

Haul 1: mostly stuff for uni, a few things for my friends and a bunch of hair bleach/dye bc i needed to change my hair

Total was somewhere in the 60s

Haul 2: just some quick things while i was out with one of my friends, keyring for her, allergy tablets bc i ran out, and somw lil craft bits

Total was around £20

Haul 3: just some bits i wanted while i was out, the nail varnishes were 15.99 each tho so total was about £40

Haul 4: my friend got the album but it needed an honourable mention lol. Not included in the picture from this day was a thong from VS and smthn else i forgot, only including my stuff total is like £40ish

Haul 5: all from primař|<, total about 40

And there was a bunch more hauls i forgot to take pictures of bc i amso bad at remembering 😭

But for all the stuff pictures the total is about £200, with the other stuff ive got this month and forgot to picture its around £300

[cha0tic-thief]

Holy shit i have so many hauls from the last like month that i need to post so imma do them all in one rn

Haul 1: mostly stuff for uni, a few things for my friends and a bunch of hair bleach/dye bc i needed to change my hair

Total was somewhere in the 60s

Haul 2: just some quick things while i was out with one of my friends, keyring for her, allergy tablets bc i ran out, and somw lil craft bits

Total was around £20

Haul 3: just some bits i wanted while i was out, the nail varnishes were 15.99 each tho so total was about £40

Haul 4: my friend got the album but it needed an honourable mention lol. Not included in the picture from this day was a thong from VS and smthn else i forgot, only including my stuff total is like £40ish

Haul 5: all from primař|<, total about 40

And there was a bunch more hauls i forgot to take pictures of bc i amso bad at remembering 😭

But for all the stuff pictures the total is about £200, with the other stuff ive got this month and forgot to picture its around £300

[cha0tic-thief]

FYI guys, the juicy couture set and the bratz bag im selling on vinted so if anyone is interested message me, and many things in these hauls im happy to go and grab duplicates of if anyone wants and im able to.

[thatsminemwah-deactivated202605]

ya gurl is back!! i finally started to lyft stuff again after a 1 and a half~ish break from it. I was just busy with stuff like xmas & work and didn’t have the time & energy to plan out any lyfts. anyways I only lyft3d 1 thing today which was this ☟☟☟

the pr1ce is £1.25 so yuh & it’s from h3r0ñ$. Might go 2 t3$c0 later to get some vaseline as well 🙈💕

total= £1.25

[angel-liftr]

a masterlist for lifting UK shops 🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️

thought id give some love for fellow UK lifters (i will update this regularly)

Sup3rmärķets (TESCO, Aldi, Lidl etc): easy pickings, great for beginners. often LP and beeping gates. cart walk outs are quite difficult because they tend to have the exits blocked off to only if u buy stuff 🏋‍♂️

br@ndy mel1ll (covent garden): mayhem. so busy. workers dont even care so do it on shop floor because they THOROUGHLY check changing rooms. they have LP. nothing is tagged so just sneak it in your shopping bag.

f0rb1dd3n plan3t: slipped a manga under leather jacket EZ

gl0ss13r: impossible because all items u have to ask staff to get from the back. only stuff out is testers and alot of LP. dont even try.

bandai namco camden store: quite easy got so much japanese stationery and figures. the figures were tagged but the alarms didnt go off. got at least 100 in there and staff didnt give a damn! sleeve conceal most and hust drop in bag for rest (i was beeping in other shops LOL)

muji: quite easy, some lp and stationery is just a sleeve conceal!

Sûp3rdrug and Bóöts: multiple LP on medium alert but SUPERSUPERR easy as long as u conceal in a blind spot. my first lift was here 😭👍 sleeve conceal for small items like lipsticks and eyeliner but i like to kneel and pretend to look at products then shove one in my tote for bigger items like shampoos and hair gels!

ĥ&M: easy. most cheap clothes aren't tagged and fitting rooms are only monitered on busy weekends. staff are pretty chill.

Prîmãrk: slightly chill staff, tons of LP and fitting rooms HIGHLY monitored. they search through clothes super thoroughly and will get mad if u try to hide anything. however, their makeups accessories are sooo easy great for beginners.

Süp3rdrỳ: all clothes is tagged, multiple LP around the store and unmonitored fitting rooms but the fitting rooms tend to be near the checkout. only lifted once from here because its not normally busy but staff was definetly suspicious of me. dont reccomend for newbies.

ĥmv: multiple LPs and staff but the staff are so chill someone saw me and did nothing. i normlly sleeve conceal small blind bags or knick nacks and just stuff it in my bag at a blindspot for bigger boxed figurines and manga. some items have rfdi. sliipped a cd under armpit under jacket so EZ

wâterst0ņes: never busy, normally no LP and only staff are at the till or shelving. some items have rfdi.

sp0řțs dîrêct: unmonitored changing rooms and busy staff helpinf customers 24/7 most items have tags. always prettu busy

uřban oûtfittēřs: monitored changing rooms, LP and staff. all items are tagged so bring tools. some have magnet detectors. always busy

urban outfitter tag: (no clue what this is but my magnet wasnt strong enough, howver someties their buzzing machines dont work so u can just walk out with it)

Lûsĥ: no rfdi, pretty busy. lots of staff who will ask to help you out. no LP. no buzzing machines

Tỳpö: no LP, rarely rfdi, few staff, pretty easy to sleave small items like washi tape and pens.

The flying tiger: really easy, no LP, no rfdi and few staff. however normally busy and its full of millenials who WILL rat u out if they see.

miniso: quite easy but lots of staff. just drop in bag and come when its early.

[angel-liftr]

updated from my london trip xx

[up-lifting-energy]

Any µk art/craft store 🧬 advice? I want some supplies but have never tried before