The Telegraph: Airport Scammer Arrested
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The Telegraph: Airport Scammer Arrested
He's trying to get a new tickets back home. He was being caught by airport police. Can't you believe this? He has been arrested. He was charged with frauds.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...sob-story.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...sob-story.html
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He's not the only one who runs that scam. I've was approached by someone on the SFO airtrain just last month with an extremely similar sob story. Need to change flight to get home, credit card not working, I'll give you my email address and name and pay you back right away. I saw people give him money. It works.
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Yeah it's the same thing with some thieves asking if they can "borrow" your cellular phone. You can be sure they will run with it.
As a result, I offer to pay at the counter for the anyone asking for returning home money or outright refuse.
As a result, I offer to pay at the counter for the anyone asking for returning home money or outright refuse.
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He's trying to get a new tickets back home. He was being caught by airport police. Can't you believe this? He has been arrested. He was charged with frauds.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...sob-story.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...sob-story.html
ADDED: Now it does from the quote in my post here, but clicking on the OP doesn't work for me.
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Not an uncommon scam even outside airports.
Some time ago in a Nairobi caf, I had three very earnest young men tell me they were refugees from Idi Amin's Uganda illegally in Kenya and they desperately needed help to go to family in Tanzania.
I asked them if Yoweri Museveni hadn't been elected recently, and why didn't they just take a matatu to Namanga and walk across the border?
Old scam; airports just offer up greater numbers of potential sheep to fleece and a more appropriate venue.
Some time ago in a Nairobi caf, I had three very earnest young men tell me they were refugees from Idi Amin's Uganda illegally in Kenya and they desperately needed help to go to family in Tanzania.
I asked them if Yoweri Museveni hadn't been elected recently, and why didn't they just take a matatu to Namanga and walk across the border?
Old scam; airports just offer up greater numbers of potential sheep to fleece and a more appropriate venue.