View Full Version : Am i too gullable?
New Leaf
14-01-09, 07:43 PM
I was hanging round outside Kings Cross today passing time waiting for my Train home, when i saw a sort of pretty posh bird looking a bit lost and sad. I asked her if she was lost and she started waffling on about coming in into London for a business meeting and stuff, then she said look i'm just gonna come out and ask you - "I need £6.50 for a train ticket."
Becasue she was quite fit, and female i gave her the money and told her not to bother taking my details to give me it back. Am i a stupid gullable tw&t? I wouldn't have given the money to a scruffy looking bloke so maybe i am. Perhaps i should have tried to get something in return, like her pants or something.:confused:
Tut. It was on TV about this, on "The Real Hustle"
They basically just do the same as what the lovely lady has done to you.
CoolGirl
14-01-09, 07:47 PM
I take it you meant 'gullable' as in pooped on from a great height? (rather than 'gullible')
didn't you stop to think why she hadn't bought a return ticket?
Biker Biggles
14-01-09, 07:49 PM
£6.50? You were had mate.Used to be only a fiver at Kings Cross.:D
Nobbylad
14-01-09, 07:52 PM
Yes
mike_avfc
14-01-09, 07:56 PM
it's only £6.50 and you won't do it again, everyones out to screw you for cash at the end of the day....
Yes, a couple tried this stunt with me and matt-said that their car had been stolen during a a day vist to London and they needed to get back up north (yorkshire or something) and could we lend them £10???!!! like train ticket to yorkshire would cost £10! also said they had no friends or family they could phone as the mobiles were in the car...hmm ok so why didnt police let you make a call from their phones???
Said we couldnt help and walked off
metalmonkey
14-01-09, 11:08 PM
I was hanging round outside Kings Cross today passing time waiting for my Train home, when i saw a sort of pretty posh bird looking a bit lost and sad. I asked her if she was lost and she started waffling on about coming in into London for a business meeting and stuff, then she said look i'm just gonna come out and ask you - "I need £6.50 for a train ticket."
Becasue she was quite fit, and female i gave her the money and told her not to bother taking my details to give me it back. Am i a stupid gullable tw&t? I wouldn't have given the money to a scruffy looking bloke so maybe i am. Perhaps i should have tried to get something in return, like her pants or something.:confused:
Its Kings Cross enough said. I suggest she went buy drugs with it.
ArtyLady
14-01-09, 11:10 PM
Yes! :rolleyes:
missyburd
15-01-09, 12:07 AM
Oh dear, so it would seem, gullible indeed. However I can't talk. I once was stood in a bus queue with ma ma, and a bloke who got off the bus shouted anyone need a ticket to where I was going for a quid (costs me £6 usually). so I said yes I'll have it, then when he'd gone I realized it was a ticket from the day before :-( Golly I was ashamed! Me ma found it vaguely amusing in that way mothers do :rolleyes: Lol, but one thing for sure I won't be making the same mistake again! You live and learn :-D
yorkie_chris
15-01-09, 01:38 AM
it's only £6.50 and you won't do it again, everyones out to screw you for cash at the end of the day....
But if he was out to screw her for cash, bargain.
missyburd
15-01-09, 01:39 AM
But if he was out to screw her for cash, bargain.
£6.50 for 15 minutes? Not a bad rate, could be worse :p
New Leaf
15-01-09, 08:29 AM
I'm still not convinced she was lying.
She was very well spoken and very well dressed. I work in the city and i know an expensive suit and coat when i see one. This lady was wearing over a grands worth of clothes and her laptop bag cost at least a couple of hundred quid.
So it just seems to me there are easier ways for a lady like that to earn £6.50 - why would she spend the day talking to weirdos round kings cross when she could earn more in a nice warm office. Also i approached her - not the other way round. Its not like she was stopping every passer by that looked like they could spare the dosh.
Oh well, maybe she ripped me off - but £6.50 is nothing in the scheme of things - and maybe just maybe i helped an honest lady who's lost her purse get home safely. Don't suppose i'll ever know - unless i see her there again on my way home tonight.
She was very well spoken and very well dressed. I work in the city and i know an expensive suit and coat when i see one. This lady was wearing over a grands worth of clothes and her laptop bag cost at least a couple of hundred quid.
So, given her clothes were so expensive, and she had a laptop bag (this doesn't mean she had a laptop), where was her bank card?
So it just seems to me there are easier ways for a lady like that to earn £6.50 - why would she spend the day talking to weirdos round kings cross when she could earn more in a nice warm office. Also i approached her - not the other way round. Its not like she was stopping every passer by that looked like they could spare the dosh.
IMO, you were targetted. She saw you as a wuss (sorry), and started looking sorry for herself, and obviously distressed. She didn't approach you because the scam works better when people think they're the one in control. This type of thing works on the assumption that generally, people are good to each other when there is a perceived benefit.
The benefit to you, was the warm glowy feeling of helping a damsel in distress. Also, if you're like me, the thought would of been in the back of your mind "Well, if I bump into her again at some point..."
Oh well, maybe she ripped me off - but £6.50 is nothing in the scheme of things - and maybe just maybe i helped an honest lady who's lost her purse get home safely. Don't suppose i'll ever know - unless i see her there again on my way home tonight.
There, you are correct. £6.50 isn't a big deal (but realisitcally, how far could you get with a £6.50 train ticket in London?).
Because you see the amount as not something to concern yourself over, you're more likely to give. If she'd of asked you for £65 to get a train to Leeds, would you of given her that & said not to bother paying it back? (Kings Cross - Leeds is more than £65, but would you know that at the time?)
EDIT: £6.50 is also a clever amount thinking about it. It's more than a fiver, less than a tenner. What if you don't have the right change to give? "Nevermind, just take this tenner..."
On the other hand, she only needs to find 10 gullible twonks to make the same £65. At a busy station I could probably do that in an hour, and I'm not female or fit! Good hourly rate isn't it?
You think about it. 20 punters at £6.50, thats £130 a day, 5 days a week tax free! No wonder she can afford expensive clothes, and have you ever been to a charity shop in chelsea/putney etc? You hav been done up like a kipper mate.
i admire your charity and faith in humankind and took the lady as being one in distress
yep, stitched up proper like, but still admire your actions.
I've just had another thought on this one.
When she asked you for £6.50, you should of said "OK, but as you don't have the cash to go anywhere, maybe we should go for a drink first, get to know each other before you screw me?"
:D
NB, To keep myself within the U-rating, I mean "screw me" as in "screw me over" - as in, "fleece me." Filthy beggars the lot of ya!
Dappa D
15-01-09, 09:42 AM
oh dear oh dear......id say defo been had mate sorry to say, we lives and learns....supposedly :-)
Ive never, and never would (if i was single...) even buy a fit lass a drink in a nightclub/bar....let alone give one money at a renound for scams train staition, can see you were trying to do the right thing like...
Ive never, and never would (if i was single...) even buy a fit lass a drink in a nightclub/bar
Even if she's a mate? You tight-a***! :) :lol:
Dappa D
15-01-09, 09:52 AM
Even if she's a mate? You tight-a***! :) :lol:
nope she can buy her own!..and as she's at the bar anyways she might aswell get me one too.....
nah you know the type..absolutely stunning....playing on it all night has about 20 blokes buying her drinks all night then goes home to her bf!...pfft....:smt019
Ceri JC
15-01-09, 10:05 AM
In the past when people have asked for help like this, I have bought them a ticket. Doesn't stop you losing out, but it acts as a form of escrow. If they really need it, you'll of helped them, if not, at least they'll not of got any money. Same with homeless people asking for food when you suspect it'll go on drugs. The real crime in this sort of scam isn't the £6.50. It's that as once done over with it, people are that much less likely to help people who really are in need in a similar situation.
ArtyLady
15-01-09, 10:14 AM
nah you know the type..absolutely stunning....playing on it all night has about 20 blokes buying her drinks all night then goes home to her bf!...pfft....:smt019
You know me too well ;) :mrgreen:
Dappa D
15-01-09, 10:20 AM
You know me too well ;) :mrgreen:
mines a rum & coke ;)
Steve_God
15-01-09, 10:24 AM
Unfortunately... Seems you were had...
In the past when people have asked for help like this, I have bought them a ticket. Doesn't stop you losing out, but it acts as a form of escrow. If they really need it, you'll of helped them, if not, at least they'll not of got any money. Same with homeless people asking for food when you suspect it'll go on drugs. The real crime in this sort of scam isn't the £6.50. It's that as once done over with it, people are that much less likely to help people who really are in need in a similar situation.
:lol: So true! I was approached by some rather bedraggled woman at Liverpool St station one night. Similar sob story. I said I'd buy her the ticket and she said no and wandered off.
On the other hand, last Oct I was approached by another bedraggled woman on my walk to the station one night, similar sob story but I gave her a couple of quid. I figured after it was probably a con but without firm evidence I wouldn't have felt right about not helping a little bit.
missyburd
15-01-09, 10:50 AM
She was very well spoken and very well dressed. I work in the city and i know an expensive suit and coat when i see one. This lady was wearing over a grands worth of clothes and her laptop bag cost at least a couple of hundred quid.
Hints that perhaps she's been in this sort of game a while ;)
EDIT: £6.50 is also a clever amount thinking about it. It's more than a fiver, less than a tenner. What if you don't have the right change to give? "Nevermind, just take this tenner..."
Very clever, very very clever. The scheming barstewards.
NB, To keep myself within the U-rating, I mean "screw me" as in "screw me over" - as in, "fleece me." Filthy beggars the lot of ya!
Teeheee :smt082
Thing is, it's all very well people saying "ha I would never have fallen for that!" but in all honesty most of you prrrrrobably would. I, unfortunately, seem to be the type to talk to people when I'm out and about on public transport, sometimes it just helps the journey go that little bit faster and every single person I've ever chatted to in the past has been lovely and we've got on well. You very easily forget not everyone is as they seem and are quite prepared to fleece you without a care in the world for the consequences. It's not a nice feeling when you know for definite you have been fleeced but to be honest New Leaf, you're right. You're not to know she actually has fleeced you or if she was simply stuck for cash.
I myself have been in a situation where I lost all my money and cards and was 13 miles from home with no way of getting back. I was about 16 and was pretty cut up because there was a tenner in my purse that was my dad's and I was worried about not being able to give it him back (stupid I know :rolleyes:). I was in tears and the bus driver let me on for free. Then a chap who knew I always got the bus lent me a whole £20 to pay me dad back and extra. I paid him back of course but just goes to show, what goes around comes around. If someone asked me for cash - after quizzing them a bit first :p - I probably would if I thought they were decent.
Ive never, and never would (if i was single...) even buy a fit lass a drink in a nightclub/bar....
Totally agree mate, snakes with boobs, that's what those kind of women are :batman:
Newleaf, just be thankful you didn't give her your bank details to 'pay you back' cos there'd probably be nothing in it by now :)
missyburd
15-01-09, 12:27 PM
Newleaf, just be thankful you didn't give her your bank details to 'pay you back' cos there'd probably be nothing in it by now :)
Or your address! Be grateful you weren't that gullible :-P :-D
Or your address! Be grateful you weren't that gullible :-P :-D
Aye but if she was fit she could have repayed him in other ways if she had his address ;)
Sid Squid
15-01-09, 01:31 PM
Or maybe she was completely genuine.
I don't know one way or the other, neither do you lot despite the bad rep that this scam has, it certainly could be, but we weren't there Andy was so we couldn't possibly know, however reasonable one's suspicions may be.
I'm always amused when people say how genuine these con-artists appear to be. Well duh, what do you expect, they are con-artists, as in "confidence", it's their business to be good at it. No con-artist is going to be rubbish at convincing you they are genuine. Faking sincerity and all that....................
At least you got off lighter than the Myspace Loser who Used £130K to a Nigerian scam (including paying the 'FBI'* to investigate it)
*more nigerians
New Leaf - just basque* in the warm glow of helping someone out - she may have been genuine :)
*yes I know it's bask, but it's late at night ;)
yorkie_chris
16-01-09, 01:41 AM
You got them letters the right way about? (am I pi$$ed?)
missyburd
16-01-09, 01:44 AM
Stu meant bask but wrote basque?
No, he's talking about the L & the U ;)
(The MySpace User lost £130K)
missyburd
16-01-09, 10:34 AM
lol, that's alright then was thinking he was being a bit thick :-P
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