SCAMMED - lesson learnt :(

DiiFMaritime

Not sure if this is the right place for this, but I have been scammed:mad:

At Manchester Piccadilly Rail Station today, a guy came up to me and said he left his bag on the bus and can't find it and need to get back to Birmingham but has no money. He needed £12.50 to get home. He said I could take his coat in exchange for the money and also he will give me his email address. Me being naive thought I would help him out, so I gave him £20 and he gave me his email address and he walked off swiftly but not towards the ticket machines!! By the time I realised, he was out of my sight. Obviously his email address is a fake one.

Sigh, trying to do a good deed but turned out to be scammed!! Really upsetting:(:(:(

crazyguy

Oh well at least he enjoyed the beer or drugs he purchased courtesy of money,

Lesson learnt dont give money to odd jobs in future !

purple45

I'm not suprised you're totally cross, with him and with yourself for falling for it. But couldn't read that and not write that you must be a lovely person to have even considered helping in the first place. It always seems to be the lovely people that get taken advantage of. But stay lovely, what goes around comes around and maybe he got run over by a taxi in his hurry to leave the station ;-)

VfM4meplse

Exactly the same thing happened to me on my third day at university, but at Sth Kensington Tube station! I caught up with him and challenged him, he said "what do you expect love, I'm an alcoholic". Since that day I have never given money to beggars.

DiiFMaritime wrote: »

He needed £12.50 to get home.

In my day (1991) it was 50p - now that's what you call inflation .

the_cat

Actually annoying though it was £20 is a pretty cheap price to learn that lesson, it could have been a whole lot worse.

mazza1970

I came out of Liverpool Lime Street the other day and this girl came up to me saying she had been stranded all night and needed money to get home.....pointed her in the direction of British Transport Police, said they could help her if she was stranded......well it was 5pm so straight away didnt believe her story she had been stranded there all night!!

Fruball

How awful for you But what a lovely person you are for trying to help someone else out... Karma... They will get their comeuppence

elaine373

Bless you for being kind.Hope you win some money in return or something similiar.x

Pink.

Hi DiiFMaritime,

I'm sorry to hear what happened to you, it was kind of you to try to help. As this isn't really an Old Style topic I've moved your thread over to the Praise, vent and warnings board where more people may see your post.

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Pollycat

Unfortunately it's experiences such as these that might stop people helping someone in real trouble next time.

Pity you didn't offer to walk to the ticket office/machine and buy his ticket for him.

I bet he'd have wriggled his way out of that somehow.

Out of interest, what was his coat like and what have you done with it?

withabix

Pollycat wrote: »

Out of interest, what was his coat like and what have you done with it?

You beat me to it!


I wonder how many coats the junkie steals every day to exchange for £20 to feed his habit?