Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

ringing the changes

Fraud consisting in the offender's using a large banknote to pay for a small purchase, waiting for the shopkeeper to put change on the counter, and then, by a series of maneuvers involving changes of mind - such as asking for some other article of little value or for smaller change for some of the money on the counter - creating a confused situation in which the offender picks up much more of the money than is really due.