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POV562

Jul 9th, 2012, 04:43 PM

LaserEnvy

Jul 9th, 2012, 04:58 PM

Who is dumb enough to fall for that

Corleone187

Jul 9th, 2012, 05:01 PM

she's not really a scammer, just a beggar lol.

It's like someone getting OSAP for school but spending the money on Canada Goose and Beats headphones instead :lol:

Corleone187

Jul 9th, 2012, 05:09 PM

Who is dumb enough to fall for that

most beggars will tell you a story and everyone knows its fake, even people who give them money...so you just give them money if you feel bad for them begging, or not give them money. But im sure no one ever believes their stories :lol:

ishfish

Jul 9th, 2012, 05:12 PM

Who is dumb enough to fall for that

When I was a youth, I always fell for things like that. I did not lie...and so I really did not expect others to. Not dumb, just niave.

xvizardx

Jul 9th, 2012, 05:37 PM

Wearing no frills shirt and crying?

Funny, I met her and told her to screw off in a nice way.

Days later, she approached me again with the same story, and that's when I smiled at her and shook my head and walked away.

Low life scums...

nalababe

Jul 9th, 2012, 06:05 PM

If the story is well played and original, I'm happy to give some change. Need to see the effort.

Simaahoy

Jul 9th, 2012, 06:09 PM

Seems like a regular beggar to me. O
Just being unethical though I.e faking a disability

subagear

Jul 9th, 2012, 08:26 PM

Isn't there a story on beggars can make up to $3k a week?

Conquistador

Jul 9th, 2012, 08:55 PM

http://www.studioglyphic.com/images/blog/NinjasKilledMyFamily.jpg

amz155

Jul 9th, 2012, 08:59 PM

Sounds like a beggar, not a scam.

mysticalinfluence

Jul 9th, 2012, 08:59 PM

she's not really a scammer, just a beggar lol.

It's like someone getting OSAP for school but spending the money on Canada Goose and Beats headphones instead :lol:

Canadians fall for the old OSAP scam everytime.

zz000ter

Jul 9th, 2012, 09:13 PM

Last night at the elevators of the TTC parking lot, I was approached by a middle aged Caucasian woman with dark complexions

RACISM! Do you really need to mention the color of her skin? ha ha ha

XtremeModder

Jul 9th, 2012, 09:24 PM

she's not really a scammer, just a beggar lol.

It's like someone getting OSAP for school but spending the money on Canada Goose and Beats headphones instead :lol:

Lol search around this board a bit, a poster said he was using his OSAP for a CG but could have been a troll.

ishfish

Jul 9th, 2012, 10:22 PM

Lol search around this board a bit, a poster said he was using his OSAP for a CG but could have been a troll.

Syne. Too funny.

wilsonlam97

Jul 9th, 2012, 10:36 PM

A year ago, when I was just leaving woodside square (i went to buy some food) this teenage girl with braids and dark complexions had rudely asked me "Can I have your iPhone?". I just told her to leave me alone. Then she asked me for a dollar.

Its rude to do such a thing. Many times I've encountered similar situations where people ask me for a dollar. Wtf

djemzine

Jul 9th, 2012, 10:36 PM

These kind of people don't even deserve to beg. They should be taken off the streets. No kidding/no jokes. In all honesty, I feel that any "beggar" making up a false story just to get money should be taken off the streets. Wasting the precious time of others, but even then, you can't blame the suckers for falling for these kind of stories. Eventually it fuel into larger number of so called "beggars"

MissMalfoy

Jul 9th, 2012, 11:43 PM

People begging isn't really a big issue for me. I just apologize and say no and keep walking, or I just keep walking anyway (depends on my mood, how busy I am, how close they are to me, etc). Some people act like they're basically being mugged when someone asks them for a dollar or some change or whatever. I've never heard anybody say, "can I have all of your money? Clear out your wallet please, I am homeless/whatever the story is so give me everything you have".

longitude

Jul 10th, 2012, 07:42 AM

When beggars ask me for money I say I'm looking for a job.

EPcjay

Jul 10th, 2012, 08:43 AM

I felt bad once when someone at St Patick station came up to me and said I'm not a begger, I just want to exchange my YRT ticket for a TTC ticket so i can get home bcause I lost my wallet.

I just kept walking and looked the other way. It wasn't until i got on the train that I really thought about what he said.

A begger once came up to me with a story and how she was stranded and needed money for a cab, and I kinda beleved her and said I got no change, but I have a bus token for you to get where you need to go. She got pissed off and said no i just need money, then I said see ya and walked away.

sedated_xtc

Jul 10th, 2012, 08:58 AM

When I was alot younger, I was stuck after hours at a subway station, I didn't know the way to the non-token only gates and I only had bus tickets on me. I asked a guy if he would mind just giving me change for my ticket so I can buy a token and he just gave me a token straight up.

Sometimes I wonder whether or not these stories are real. Most of these aren't, but sometimes if I see people at a bus station asking for loose change to get onto the bus or whatever, I don't mind chucking some change their way.

http://bbsimg.ngfiles.com/1/23991000/ngbbs4fc6d890ecfce.jpg

manmanny

Jul 10th, 2012, 09:28 AM

RACISM! Do you really need to mention the color of her skin? ha ha ha

Its Racism ONLY if you comment about Chinese (or as some say Asian) on this forum. Mods will warn you or ban you for that.
I have seen "white" Canadian helping her many times. The new trend I see is many give her some Timmy or other $10 Gift card and not cash.
I don't think its a scam.

When I was alot younger, I was stuck after hours at a subway station, I didn't know the way to the non-token only gates and I only had bus tickets on me. I asked a guy if he would mind just giving me change for my ticket so I can buy a token and he just gave me a token straight up.

Sometimes I wonder whether or not these stories are real. Most of these aren't, but sometimes if I see people at a bus station asking for loose change to get onto the bus or whatever, I don't mind chucking some change their way.

http://bbsimg.ngfiles.com/1/23991000/ngbbs4fc6d890ecfce.jpg

Correct. Its up to you give/help or not.

manmanny

Jul 10th, 2012, 09:31 AM

When beggars ask me for money I say I'm looking for a job.

So you lied?

kocoman

Jul 10th, 2012, 10:09 AM

I find it strange that Sheppard Ave near fairview mall is now app apartments, did some company buy up all the land?

longitude

Jul 10th, 2012, 10:17 AM

So you lied?

Blatantly.

BuddyGuy

Jul 10th, 2012, 04:15 PM

A begger once came up to me with a story and how she was stranded and needed money for a cab, and I kinda beleved her and said I got no change, but I have a bus token for you to get where you need to go. She got pissed off and said no i just need money, then I said see ya and walked away.

That's a standard one... I got approached by a lady at my old workplace in Markham in the parking lot while I was getting out of the car, she was asking for some cash to take the bus to Newmarket for a job interview...

I had a couple bucks in the cupholder, which I turned to give to her, she said no, I need at least 8 dollars......... looked at her, looked at the money, put the few bucks into my pocket, locked the car and went to work.

I've noticed that beggars are now applying minimum cover charges...

SwiZz

Jul 10th, 2012, 10:16 PM

I am putting this out as a warning for those who frequents Don Mills station.

Last night at the elevators of the TTC parking lot, I was approached by a middle aged Caucasian woman with dark complexions in an electrical wheelchair asking for money to help her niece and nephew. According to her, her mother has died that night and her family is sending the kids down on a cab to her place and she is in need of money to pay the cab driver. She said she tried to withdraw money from the TD at the mall but was unable to.

DO NOT GIVE HER ANYTHING, she is a scam artist and has been mentioned in this forum before. http://forums.redflagdeals.com/chinese-scammer-help-my-car-got-towed-617126/3/#post7179249

I'm laughing out loud.......cause sadly I had that same woman approach me 2 months ago, and although i knew it was a fishy story, i felt bad saying no to a woman in a wheelchair who was crying, and i thought to myself that if there was the SLIGHTEST chance she was telling the truth, i would've felt super guilty for not helping her out. What's even more **** up is that all i had on me were $20 bills, and so I gave her a 20.

You want to know what's even funnier? The link mentioned in this thread that goes back to the old RFD thread that talks abotu the same lady in wheelchair scamming people back in 2008, i realized i had POSTED in that thread 2-3 messages down from the initial claim of the wheelchair scam.........this is what I get for having piss-poor memory LOL.

Electric Wheelchair Woman: 1............me: 0

Hope I run into her again.

wilsonlam97

Jul 10th, 2012, 10:18 PM

I'm laughing out loud.......cause sadly I had that same woman approach me 2 months ago, and although i knew it was a fishy story, i felt bad saying no to a woman in a wheelchair who was crying, and i thought to myself that if there was the SLIGHTEST chance she was telling the truth, i would've felt super guilty for not helping her out. What's even more **** up is that all i had on me were $20 bills, and so I gave her a 20.

You want to know what's even funnier? The link mentioned in this thread that goes back to the old RFD thread that talks abotu the same lady in wheelchair scamming people back in 2008, i realized i had POSTED in that thread 2-3 messages down from the initial claim of the wheelchair scam.........this is what I get for having piss-poor memory LOL.

Electric Wheelchair Woman: 1............me: 0

Hope I run into her again.

Real ballers roll out $100s.

mysticalinfluence

Jul 10th, 2012, 11:28 PM

RACISM! Do you really need to mention the color of her skin? ha ha ha

Only racism when there not caucasian.

jimmy-j

Jul 11th, 2012, 07:06 AM

blatantly.

zomg scammer!!!

ji2o0k

Jul 11th, 2012, 01:17 PM

while it is very rare but people asking for change for the bus can be true...I guess you need to assess the person, their situation and their behaviour...

I had a buddy that took the TTC subway from downtown to uptown finch in a hurry but realized that he forgoten his wallet and cellphone when he got to Finch

....he had his change holder but had used his last token on the way up...and only had a few coins in the coin holder...

Anyways, he went around Finch station asking for change....I lol'd so hard, I told him if I didn't know him and he approached me, hella no would I give him money.

He was pretty surprised, he said a few ladies gave him money and he was able to accumulate enough for a token back to his condo....

He guessed he looked honest enough....he wasn't dressed in bum rags or anything and does have a friendly honest face....lol!!

ji2o0k

Jul 11th, 2012, 01:26 PM

Ok, I think this is a scam but wanted to get your opinion on this...

A few years ago, I was approached at Finch station by a pretty good-looking 20-something girl....she was inside the station and near the BMO ATM...

Her story was that she has a cheque in the amount of $200+ dollars but doesn't want to deposit it because a 5day hold will be placed on it and she needs her money badly (can't remember the reason)...

She asked me if I would be willing to withdraw $$ from the BMO ATM and give it to her and she would sign over the cheque....she offered that I could give her less $$ than the $200 and I keep the rest..

I didn't look at the cheque too closely but it looked like it was a typed up cheque, like one that someone from an employer would get (it wasn't filled out by hand with ink or anything)...

I wasn't sure what to make of it, she was dressed ok and was articulate, well-mannered....and quite pretty ;)

I hesitated and was thinking/processing the information she just told me but my female companion quickly said "No thanks", grabbed me and marched me down the escalators...lol!

Was this a scam? Did I almost fall victim to the "pretty scammer lady" and was saved by my female companion (she was quite annoyed that I entertained the girl's story....lol!)

manmanny

Jul 11th, 2012, 01:46 PM

I wasn't sure what to make of it, she was dressed ok and was articulate, well-mannered....and quite pretty ;)

I hesitated and was thinking/processing the information she just told me but my female companion quickly said "No thanks", grabbed me and marched me down the escalators...lol!

....lol!)

LOL. Women never trust other women...especially if she is pretty.
Exact same scenario but guy with pretty girl approached me outside FaiView Mall. Walked away.

ji2o0k

Jul 11th, 2012, 02:00 PM

LOL. Women never trust other women...especially if she is pretty.
Exact same scenario but guy with pretty girl approached me outside FaiView Mall. Walked away.hahhaha....

Ahhhh ok, I think the scam would go over more easily if it was the pretty girl alone....what threw me off in my situation was she was alone and approached the 2 of us, I think she would be more inclined to approach a single guy or girl and have success....

peanutz

Jul 11th, 2012, 02:12 PM

I hate to be mean but I don't trust anyone asking for train fare. I once gave a lady a full adult's TTC admission ($3.00) and saw her go to someone else asking for money for the same reason. What pisses me off is the fact that such scum live around where I do (I believe one of the apartments is social housing), so occasionally I'll walk home and see her fat ***** being moved around on the motor chair thing.

Nowadays I figure if you really desperately need to get on the TTC, just ask the driver/booth operator your story to have them consider to let you on free. Nobody personally "loses" anything. I think it happened once to me when I left my wallet at home while I was commuting to school. Got on one way with a spare token, then on the way back my friends offered to lend me money if the booth operator said no. But he did let me through - and I showed him my Metropass the next day. :P

And oh, sedated, your picture makes me laugh. Reminds me of the time I gave a beggar/drug addict a dollar, then another one walked up to me and asked me...and another one... wtf?

Just Say No.

HappyDaze

Jul 11th, 2012, 02:25 PM

A friend that moved here from the boonies got conned to the max, but it turned out OK. There is a beggar/scammer at Yonge/Eglinton that needs money to change his greyhound fair (he waves around a ticket). My friend listened to his sob story, how he needed the money to go to Montreal and visit his kids. How he's on disability or recovering alcoholic or something like that, trying to turn his life around.

My friend, in her small town naivite, wanted to surprise him for Christmas, so she set up a charity, collected about $1.5k for him to visit his kids and buy them gifts, etc. She met up with him, made plans to give him the money, then never heard from him. Not sure why he didn't collect... months later, he is at the same corner, waving the same ticket around still begging...

peanutz

Jul 11th, 2012, 02:29 PM

^ Umm... so did your friend return the money she collected for her cause? Or did she donate to someone else.

ji2o0k

Jul 11th, 2012, 02:40 PM

^ Umm... so did your friend return the money she collected for her cause? Or did she donate to someone else.she made a donation to the Human fund...lol!

sedated_xtc

Jul 11th, 2012, 02:43 PM

And oh, sedated, your picture makes me laugh. Reminds me of the time I gave a beggar/drug addict a dollar, then another one walked up to me and asked me...and another one... wtf?

Just Say No.

I'm not gonna lie that happened to me too. Was at don mills and finch, had a guy come up to me to bum a smoke. Then a token. Then he asked if I can go to the gas station and buy him a pack of cigarettes. And if I can give him $5.

All I said was "dude, everybody gets one, just one".

ShopperfiendTO

Jul 11th, 2012, 03:28 PM

These are scams if they give reasons for the money that aren't what they're actually going to be used for.

If a person really lost his wallet and needs the $3 to get home, he's still begging (but not scamming), just like the panhandlers who just ask for spare change.

The ones being discussed are using false pretenses to get money (however nominal) and this is a scam. It's no different than the Nigerian prince scam... it's not the Nigerian prince beg.

The ones with the sob stories piss the fr@ck out of me because with each new scammer or story, one legit unlucky guy or girl who is actually in that situation will be ignored because of scam-stories fatigue.

LaserEnvy

Jul 11th, 2012, 03:37 PM

My friend, in her small town naivite, wanted to surprise him for Christmas, so she set up a charity, collected about $1.5k for him to visit his kids and buy them gifts, etc.

One thousand facepalms :facepalm:

EP32k2

Jul 12th, 2012, 03:10 AM

Some begger in a wheelchair asked me for money. Told him I have no change, he then said not even $5? lolololol

Syne

Jul 12th, 2012, 04:16 AM

Syne

Jul 12th, 2012, 04:37 AM

Was this a scam? Did I almost fall victim to the "pretty scammer lady" and was saved by my female companion (she was quite annoyed that I entertained the girl's story....lol!)

No way to tell for sure, but what I do know is that it's easy to pull off a scam like this if you're a little resourceful and there is zero recourse if it actually works.

It was quite a few years ago, but in London at the corner of Dundas and Wellington, I had this skeezy ***** offer me one of the newer iPods for some insanely low price, like $35. I was on my lunch break, so I said 'sure' and went to an ATM to withdraw the money. I figured that they were probably stolen and he was just trying to get rid of them. The worst thing was I didn't even want an iPod because I did (and still do) rather despise Apple products and already had an .mp3 player.

So I get the money and he says we need to go to another place to meet a guy to grab the iPods, as he doesn't want to do the deal on the street. All this time, I was just thinking, "let's get this deal over with so I can go back to work". He takes me through the Delta Armories, then disappears into the YMCA, saying he'll be right out.

Well long after my lunch break ends, he hadn't reappeared and it's slowly dawning on me that I've been the victim of a scam. D'uhhh. I was pissed right off and felt like a tool. I briefly considered calling the police but thinking they'd just call me an idiot and threaten me with criminal conspiracy charges, I just cut my losses.

That is, until two days later I'm on lunch and I see this mother*****er again on the same corner, hustling!! I couldn't believe the balls on this guy. What's worse, there was another guy angrily confronting him about something else. So being me, I jump in throwing accusations at him while he's very actively trying to ignore me and step away. Finally, he turns to me and at first offers me coke. I decline and say I just want the money. He says he will give my money back but he only has $100 but it's at his buddy's place and he asks if I have change. I did have change, and he asked me for it and he would get me the money. Not being a complete moron (but pretty close) I decide to go up to the apartment where his buddy lives myself. So we truck up to the lobby of the new apartments on Dundas and take the elevator up to some high floor. He says, "OK, give me the change and I'll come right back out with the hundo!" as we're standing on somebody's doorstep.

At this point, it finally clicked that I was probably about to get robbed either at gunpoint or knifepoint if I stuck around. At the same time, I couldn't understand why this guy would take me to somebody's house and then rip me off. At that point, I decided to peace out. I got on the elevator and this guy starts getting visibly angry, telling me I could hang on to his shoes while we went in and got my money. I deke down the elevator and when I get to the lobby some guy asks me, "Hey you seen this guy" [gives description] and I say, "Yeah, the *****er just tried to rip me off again" and I left. It occurs to me that this other guy might have been in on the deal.

Anyways, this time I did call the cops and they took my report. I never saw the guy again.

skwigglyline

Jul 12th, 2012, 09:42 AM

you must be one of those people that lives in the moment, literally....cuz you're obviously not thinking ahead at all...so many situations there where I was like wtf are you doin? So not only did you lose the original 35 bucks but then you lost the change to a 100 for 35 bucks? lol wtf??????

anyway, after watching slum dog millionaire, ive always been tempted to follow some poor person home to see if they get into a van and drive off somewhere. A potential news story right there in the making. I've seen a number of homeless people holding a sign with perfectly written words on the exact same size of cardboard. I'm sure its some sort of ring/setup.

Syne

Jul 12th, 2012, 04:07 PM

No, I left before I lost the change for the $100

DeathRazR

Jul 14th, 2012, 02:11 AM

guys, it is currently 2am and 10 mins ago i was on the highway 404 going southbound and i got off the exit at Sheppard. When i made the left turn, a woman in the electrical wheelchair came onto the road right in front of my car and i immediately stomped on the break. she then came to the side of my car and expected me to open the window or something but i quickly changed lanes and speeded off. and this reminded me of the thread that was on here and just to let everyone know that people will do anything for money. i was literally a few meters away from running this woman over.

iamjay

Jul 17th, 2012, 02:32 AM

some old lady begged for me to drive her close by my college at Humber North, so I said sure. Little did I know she stank and looked homeless, while chanting thank god, god loves you, and so on. This short trip takes 30min as it's almost downtown toronto! I finally dropped her off at some street corner and before she got out she helped herself to my coin tray that i stupidly left open chatting more stuff about Jesus. Did I get robbed? It was like a 50$ cab fare and about 7$ in coffee money. I was a sad panda that night..

wilsonlam97

Jul 17th, 2012, 03:51 AM