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Getting off the bus in NYC one day, guy comes up to me, seemingly nice guy asks if I have $5 so he can get home. Give him some money, feel scammed, couldn’t sa
by SlowRobotAhead 8y ago
Getting off the bus in NYC one day, guy comes up to me, seemingly nice guy asks if I have $5 so he can get home.
Give him some money, feel scammed, couldn’t say exactly why.
Talk to my Dad about it later and he asks what was it? Was he holding a book or something? Yep, right in his hand obviously when I recalled it was a cheap rough condition paperback book. My dumb brain saw that and said “surely this guy is ok, he reads!”. Dad informed me this was an old scam.
- scrumper 8y ago5am in Penn Station, waiting to board the early Acela. I've been in NYC 20 years at this point and have become tolerably good at deflecting our local street scammers, for the most part. I'm printing my ticket out and a construction worker comes up to me, wiry dude with a hi-vis jacket carrying a hard hat. $5 to get home to NJ, his truck got broken into and wallet stolen, blah boo hoo. He got the $5, and it didn't take him much talking to get it. The hard hat sold me. Soon as he turned I realized I'd been scammed.
- AYBABTME 8y agoI gave money to these people, and I don't think it's a scam. They're just begging by another mean. Often I just assume they don't have the chop to just ask for cash, or want to ease me into giving. I just ignore their made up story and give them change if I have some. It's charity, not "being scammed".