MONEY MORAL DILEMMA. Would you give a stranger £3?

hollydays

bennymac wrote: »

i would use my instinct and if she seemed genuine give her the money without hesitation.

But they ALL seem genuine..

mmillie

There is a similar scam going on at my local station. Someone stands in the ticket machine queue and puts £15 in the machine for a £16 ticket. They make a great show of hunting for the last pound, holding the queue up. When they can't find it, they ask the person behind them for a pound, who in frustration at the delay pretty much always gives it to them. When they get it, they hit the refund button and walk off with all the money.

Titch28

I've been had over like this before in a hospital car park as well so they play on your sympathy even more. I'd go along with them to the ticket office if I had the spare money

MORPH3US

I would just say NO!.... my money is my money, I work hard for it so I don't give it away lightly.

Its not that I won't help people.... I would run into a burning building to save a life but that situation wouldn't be life or death.... let her walk and she might be more careful with her purse in future.

jacksgrandma

No ... working in London I often come across people asking for money/begging. If I thought it was genuine I'd offer to buy her the ticket. I'd never just hand over money ...

bigbloke45

No, this is a scam. I remember years ago being stopped by a well dressed young man in the City of London who spun me a story about having come down from Leicester looking for work, but had then "lost his papers" and needed some money to get home. He even started to shed some tears! When I accused him of "begging" he got quite "shirty".

I told him he should seek a career on the stage.

GraceC

A similar thing happenned to me recently where I forgot my purse on my way out and only realised once I got to the station. I needed £2 for the train to get to work and if I had turned back home I would have ended up being very late. With such a small fare, the ticket collector on the train just said to buy a return on my way back. I lent the money off a friend in work and all was well for my return journey.

So I wouldn't lend the money, and would make her ask the people at the station. If she was genuine then they would probably sort her out, and if they knew she was a scammer and recognised her from hanging around then they wouldn't.

nghy

I will buy the ticket for her. If she is genuine, she wouldn't mind. I don't mind to help if it's more than £3. However, beware !! I was approached twice in London King Cross station. Both requested cash, when I suggested I buy ticket for them, they just walked away !!!

curriej99

koppite79 wrote: »

if she looked genuine i would prob give her the money or at least get her the ticket.

too mant cynics in the world, this situ says more about you than it does the other person and i choose to think tat not everyone is as bad as the daily mail would have us all believe. better to give and be conned than not give and be a tw!t.

It is actually people like YOU who are encouraging this sort of scam. It happens again and again. I have been on the end of it several times. Look - if the fare is only 3 quid why can't they just walk, as it can't be that far - or even get a taxi and sort the fare out when they get to the other end? Anyone with enough self respect would do this rather than march up to total strangers and beg. Use your brain.

b4ide

Yes! the reason? I was approached by a very smartly dressed man in the centre of Calais, France last year, whilst killing time to catch the ferry home. He asked me for some money for a meal. I said I had none (I was at the end of my holiday and indeed I had very little cash left). He then began a very violant attack on myself being abusive and confrontational. I was extreemly scared and no one came to help! So the moral is you dont know who the person is, a thief, a drug user, a mental case, or indeed someone who is being truthful, so for me the cost of £3 is a far option than what I experienced.