I get requested regularly on Instagram by people I have no connection with and have noticed my profile because I've liked or commented on a reel. They are at the least influencers trying to get more followers. Anyway I always refuse unless they are an musical artist etc that I really like.Literally everyone approaching you via Instagram and asking you for money is going to be a scummy scammer. If you squeezed Instagram it would ooze rivers of scammers. Fuck. Them. All.
No, he wasn’t. He certainly has a future in scams himself. Well played!Are you serious, Boris Sprinkler ?
Same. I gave £20 to a crying teenager at Oxford coach station, back in the day. She'd ' lost' her ticket and needed to get home to Cambridge. Most likely a scam (esp as my offer to go and buy the ticket wasn't accepted, she needed cash for some not exactly plausible reason). Good backstory about her parents being away on holiday.I’ve given folk money quite a few times when travelling whilst knowing full well that the tragic story I’ve just been told might be true but is about 90% likely not, and I think that’s completely fine, but wouldn’t do it over the internet only in person meetings. Last time it was a taxi driver in Ghana whose 2yr old child may or may not have swallowed a coin the day before and needed medical expenses to pay the bill and collect her from the hospital. Absolutely no idea if that was true but he needed the £ more than I did either way.
Not a scam as such, but more likely you’d give money due to her being stranded than if it was for a bag of brown.Same. I gave £20 to a crying teenager at Oxford coach station, back in the day. She'd ' lost' her ticket and needed to get home to Cambridge. Most likely a scam (esp as my offer to go and buy the ticket wasn't accepted, she needed cash for some not exactly plausible reason). Good backstory about her parents being away on holiday.
I knew it was probably a scam, but she was young and crying convincingly and what if she was genuinely stranded? She said she'd send me the money, but didn't. Besides, I'd been stranded myself at a coach station when I was 16 with insufficient money, and a stranger took pity on me to get me to my destination.
You're a kind person though Boris Sprinkler. Deffo a scam though this one.
As soon as they say no to you buying the ticket for them you know it's a scam.Same. I gave £20 to a crying teenager at Oxford coach station, back in the day. She'd ' lost' her ticket and needed to get home to Cambridge. Most likely a scam (esp as my offer to go and buy the ticket wasn't accepted, she needed cash for some not exactly plausible reason). Good backstory about her parents being away on holiday.
I knew it was probably a scam, but she was young and crying convincingly and what if she was genuinely stranded? She said she'd send me the money, but didn't. Besides, I'd been stranded myself at a coach station when I was 16 with insufficient money, and a stranger took pity on me to get me to my destination.
You're a kind person though Boris Sprinkler. Deffo a scam though this one.
I'm guessing it was something like that.Not a scam as such, but more likely you’d give money due to her being stranded than if it was for a bag of brown.
Now I think about it, it might not have been possible cos the ticket office was shut until after my coach was leaving. Something like that. Otherwise I'd agree.As soon as they say no to you buying the ticket for them you know it's a scam.
Except for all those Eastern European 20 year old lingerie models who think I'm handsome and want to be my friend, right?Ignore any messages or friend requests from people you don't know on social media.
I paid for a Mum of two youngies shopping is asda yesterday cos her card declined as she’d had her hair done earlier. Gotta pay it forward and better than giving to charity cos they’re generally scammers of the worst kind!On Wednesday a complete stranger gave me £1. She was sat on a bench having a fag and saw me going to get a trolley from the rack outside supermarket looking for pound coin in wallet & not having any. she refused my offer to go get change for the tenner I had on me and just gave me the quid. Absolutely brilliant, made my week, which was already a good week.
I could’ve been a scammer but think if you did that all day outside Sainsbury’s how many would you get?
Seemed like a big deal to me what she did.
Sadly there was a woman doing this regularly at my old local train station. When she started she was clean, well dressed articulate and convincing. Over about eight months she got more and more unkempt, and inarticulate and also aged what looked like 10 years. Eventually she was just sitting there begging for change and then disappeared. It was very sad.Same. I gave £20 to a crying teenager at Oxford coach station, back in the day. She'd ' lost' her ticket and needed to get home to Cambridge. Most likely a scam (esp as my offer to go and buy the ticket wasn't accepted, she needed cash for some not exactly plausible reason). Good backstory about her parents being away on holiday.
I knew it was probably a scam, but she was young and crying convincingly and what if she was genuinely stranded? She said she'd send me the money, but didn't. Besides, I'd been stranded myself at a coach station when I was 16 with insufficient money, and a stranger took pity on me to get me to my destination.
You're a kind person though Boris Sprinkler. Deffo a scam though this one.
I paid for a Mum of two youngies shopping is asda yesterday cos her card declined as she’d had her hair done earlier. Gotta pay it forward and better than giving to charity cos they’re generally scammers of the worst kind!
Aww, she must have been mintedI did that for someone in Morrisons, for about £18. She insisted on taking my address and about a week later I got a thank you card with a £20 note and a £20 M&S voucher.
Aww, she must have been mintedwas this in St John’s Wood?
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No Im not scamming. If anything I was gauging reaction to see if this was a worthwhile endeavor. he reckons that with this car it will be his way to earn an honest living. And I know that if you give a man a leg up…Maybe I’m too trusting of people.No, he wasn’t. He certainly has a future in scams himself. Well played!![]()
I wasn’t accusing you of scamming. I was accusing you of joking about believing this scam. But joking in such a way that many here believed your tale of gullibility.No Im not scamming.
It’s possible he’s being honest. But if folk are willing to set him up in business, what’s the point in pursuing that when a new set of folk might be willing to set him up in business again, and again?But is it a scam if he straight up is saying if you buy me this car I can work as a taxi driver?
Maybe we can make him paint urban75 on the side of it?
Ignore any messages or friend requests from people you don't know on social media.
I’d like to appear real. So just checking: real people don’t get in touch with old acquaintances and ask how they are? That’s useful to know. Thanks.Realised something was up when this guy who I vaguely knew from ten years back messaged me asking how I was doing. Real people don't do that.
Do real people stop and speak to old acquaintances they haven’t seen in years in the street?
I don’t really do any social media now apart from this, where the only money asked is for support following a poster’s death.![]()
You didn’t mention Facebook. You said messaged. I’ve messaged old acquaintances before. And asked them how they were!Real people know the difference between the real world and facebook. Which is how I know this question is facetious.