Ever heard of a queer plunger? I saw it on a list of "obsolete words that should never have gone out of style" - a bit of online timewastery forwarded by a colleague.
Here's the definition and its source:
Queer plungers: Cheats who throw themselves into the water, in order that they may be taken up by their accomplices, who carry them to one of the houses appointed by the Humane Society for the recovery of drowned persons, where they are rewarded by the society with a guinea each; and the supposed drowned person, pretending he was driven to that extremity by great necessity, also frequently sent away with a contribution in his pocket.
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