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Have you ever been scammed? By a company? Or someone posing to be with " such and such place" and they need to renew your account, so they ask for your credit card number..etc.
There's many ways to get scammed, but something that happened to a co-worker this past couple of weeks, prompted me to see if others have had this happen to them.
I was taking a lunch today with a co-worker and we passed a guy holding a "homeless help me sign." I had asked if he thought we should give the guy some change, and then my co-worker told me about something that happened to him just weeks prior.
He had stopped at Quick Trip and was getting some gas. A black man approached him and asked if he could take a minute of his time. The man had asked if my co-worker had any money he could spare. The guy was apparently traveling to see his sick mother in St. Louis and had run out of gas in Blue Springs. (It's 4 hours from here) The man pointed to his car crappy car and said he had just lost a job and now his mother was sick. My co-worker felt bad and gave him $40 dollars to fill up. The man was grateful and took the money inside and paid for the gas and fueled up.
It wasn't a week or two later, that my co-worker was at the same Quick Trip when he recognized the man talking to someone at a nearby pump. I guess this guy wasn't so kind to give him money, and the black guy was now making a scene about "nobody caring enough to help someone in need." My co-worker went over to both of the guys and told the black guy that he had given him 40 bucks not that long ago, and that it should have helped him and why wasn't he already in St. Louis visiting his mother. The guy had smelled like alcohol and was in a different vehicle, but once my co-worker had confronted the schemer in front of the other victim, his tone changed and he got in his car and sped off.
As he was telling me this, I had remembered that I once had someone approach me like that, but their story was more convincing. And then I started wondering if the same thing happened to me. But in a time with a horrible economy and high gas prices, I guess people get desperate.
Anyone have something simliar to this?? Or have you got scammed in general?
There's many ways to get scammed, but something that happened to a co-worker this past couple of weeks, prompted me to see if others have had this happen to them.
I was taking a lunch today with a co-worker and we passed a guy holding a "homeless help me sign." I had asked if he thought we should give the guy some change, and then my co-worker told me about something that happened to him just weeks prior.
He had stopped at Quick Trip and was getting some gas. A black man approached him and asked if he could take a minute of his time. The man had asked if my co-worker had any money he could spare. The guy was apparently traveling to see his sick mother in St. Louis and had run out of gas in Blue Springs. (It's 4 hours from here) The man pointed to his car crappy car and said he had just lost a job and now his mother was sick. My co-worker felt bad and gave him $40 dollars to fill up. The man was grateful and took the money inside and paid for the gas and fueled up.
It wasn't a week or two later, that my co-worker was at the same Quick Trip when he recognized the man talking to someone at a nearby pump. I guess this guy wasn't so kind to give him money, and the black guy was now making a scene about "nobody caring enough to help someone in need." My co-worker went over to both of the guys and told the black guy that he had given him 40 bucks not that long ago, and that it should have helped him and why wasn't he already in St. Louis visiting his mother. The guy had smelled like alcohol and was in a different vehicle, but once my co-worker had confronted the schemer in front of the other victim, his tone changed and he got in his car and sped off.
As he was telling me this, I had remembered that I once had someone approach me like that, but their story was more convincing. And then I started wondering if the same thing happened to me. But in a time with a horrible economy and high gas prices, I guess people get desperate.
Anyone have something simliar to this?? Or have you got scammed in general?
