Originally Posted by BigLar

There's another scam we ran into a month or so ago. You will be approached by (usually) a young woman dressed in some sort of Slavic peasant garb, and she'll ask you, "Do you speak English?". When you say yes, she thrusts a hand-written piece of paper at you, purportedly written by her brother in Bosnia who is being held prisoner and, I guess, needs some help (money) to get out.

It's just another variant of the old Spanish Prisoner scam.

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