SCAMMED - lesson learnt :(

DiiFMaritime

purple45 wrote: »

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 ;-)

Frugal wrote: »

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 wrote: »

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

Thanks for your support guys

DiiFMaritime

Pollycat wrote: »

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?

DVardysShadow wrote: »

Now you have received a stolen coat.

I didn't actually end up taking his coat, maybe if I had taken it I could have recovered some of my £20 off ebay as it was quite a decent coat:o

Felicity

Not exactly the same thing but I was once stranded in a field in the middle of nowhere (due to storms, road closures, new to living in the countryside and driving an RX8 into somewhere it really shouldn't have been).

I was pregnant, it was dark, in the countryside and I had little option of where to go but a secluded farmhouse, I had no signal on my phone but took down the reg of the cars outside and attempted to text them to a friend and my hubby before knocking on the door.

I was absolutely terrified but knocked and explained my tail of woe, could I use their phone? They had, I later found out, just moved here from South Africa and were used to every scam in the book. They didn't believe that I could in any way be in that position. They were as kind as their heads would allow them to be and left me shivering in their garden whilst they rang for help for me inside.

Long story short ... The RAC recovered my vehicle, my friend collected me that night and my hubby (who was in another country at the time) and I thanked them with a bottle of wine the next week.

It was only then I found out they had fully expected a gunman or similar to appear behind a pregnant woman asking for help at their door to relieve them of all their wordly goods.

I am so thankful for their (limited) help that night! It was miles to the next place!

Lol, we still share Christmas cards and laugh about it 5 years on!

GemJar_2

I went for an interview in Luton once, and being from Manchester, had planned to get the train home. Sadly, I was mugged just outside Luton city center and had my bag, phone, money and train tickets taken from me. I didn't know you could go to BT police then and ask them for help, and I didn't want to waste hours at the police station only to end up stuck late at night in a city I didn't know.

So, I went to the local library and asked at the desk if they knew the coach times- my plan was to beg the coach driver to let me on for free to london where I'd beg a virgin train driver(there were no virgin trains going through the luton train station to my knowledge) to let me on for free and I'd pay back later as my dad was a train driver for them himself.

Anyway obviously looking upset and distressed the man behind the counter just outright gave me the money for the coach AND let me phone my dad so that he could get in contact with the train conductor, who then put me in first class, fed me and then, as it was the end of her shift drove me home. I would have been absolutley screwed if it wasn't for these two lovely people and I sent both thank you cards and chocolates after.

Pollycat

DiiFMaritime wrote: »

I didn't actually end up taking his coat, maybe if I had taken it I could have recovered some of my £20 off ebay as it was quite a decent coat:o

Ah, I see.

If you had said you would take his coat in exchange for the money, I bet he would have come up with some excuse why he needed to keep it.

nuttywoman

Me & hubby were once flagged down on a country road , going up to Newcastle by a woman with kids in the car .She fed us this story she`d no money for petrol and had to get to see her sick dad.We offered to find a garage for her and explain to them so they could come out to her - she told us to f off ! lol

musicmaker29

There's ALWAYS a guy around Nottingham Train station spinning a similar yarn - he's either just out of prison, just out of hospital or his wife is about to give birth. He must make a fair bit out of it as I've seen him changing his cash into notes at WHsmiths (why do they let him!?).

Once there was a women just outside the train station saying she was stuck there and needed to get back to liverpool and had forgotten her pin number - she said I could have her (halifax debit) card and contact details if I borrowed her £20. I just said, 'ah Halifax have a branch just out the other side of that centre! Would you like me to show you where and Im sure they'll help you out?'. She didn't say yes and I walked off lol.

Falafely

I was in London last week and was reading a magazine on a bench whilst waiting for my boyfriend. A scruffy man came and said 'hey love, got some change you could spare?' in quite a friendly way, but being wary, I said 'sorry, got no change on me' and then all of a sudden he turned nasty! He said 'I bet you rehearsed that line! How many times have you said that to people? Thinking you're better than everyone else!!'. I just sighed and went back to reading my mag which angered him more (my intention) and he said something else which I didn't catch then walked off. As if he expects people to give him money when he comes out with stuff like that!

FredWhispers

Giving £20 to a stranger? I wish I knew you.

trumpton

Well, then you would have the pleasure of knowing a very kind and decent person by the sounds of it.