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How did they try to get $300 from you after your phone was stolen? You probably don't carry that much cash on you, they can't text you, and they have your phon
by CatWChainsaw 3y ago
How did they try to get $300 from you after your phone was stolen? You probably don't carry that much cash on you, they can't text you, and they have your phone/digital wallet if they wanted to try cracking it.
- tombert 3y agoAfter I got home, I got my wife to call the phone, and they said they would give it back to me if I gave them $300. We were trying to see if we could figure out a way to get them to reveal themselves but it didn’t pan out.
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoThat sucks. Although I can't really see someone who went to the trouble of stealing the phone honoring an exchange. I bet if you had arranged to do the exchange anywhere other than outside a police station they would have just walked off with your phone and an extra $300.
- tombert 3y agoYeah, that’s what we figured as well. I had no reason to think that anything positive could come out of giving them $300. Even if they did give me my phone back for $300, I don’t want to reward extorting me. I doubt they got any money for it, so it’s probably resting at the bottom of the Hudson River now. It was especially frustrating for me because I was unemployed at the time, and really didn't want to be spending $700 of dollars on a new phone, so for a brief moment I will admit that I did consider paying the $300 if I had a way to guarantee that they'd actually give it back, but it didn't last long.