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What's the worst scam you've fallen for (or gotten close to falling for)? (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] 51 points 2 years ago (3 children)

In a trains station gave someone enough money for a ticket cuz he was claiming that he lost his train. Felt real stupid when I saw him the next day asking the same shit.

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  • [โ€“] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Consider that at the time you were helping a stranger with the relatively trivial cost of a train ticket.

    Now you know you "helped" a likely homeless dude.

    Technically a scam but a pretty minor one.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Train tickets by me cost 4x an hour of minimum wage work. Even if a single person helped per hour, that's more than enough to make it worthwhile compared to a paying job. That's a scam, taking advantage of people's help as a regular living rather than making an honest living.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's a much more costly train ticket than I was imagining.

    I was assuming something like the inverse of that: a quarter of an hour of minimum wage.

    That does tip the scale back to scammy.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago

    This happened to me in a Walmart parking lot with a guy telling me a sob story about how he's traveling with his family and out of gas (with a gas can in his hand). I didn't give him any money but saw him there in the parking lot a couple weeks later and he gave the same story obviously not recognizing me from before.

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