Motorway Services Scammers

[philKS2]

O... I have been had... I am a gullible person who falls for a good sob story...

BUT I wonder who else has seen this one... at the time I was tired, cold and felt sorry for the woman..but within a few mints of driving off thought it through and realised it was a scam. I can afford to lose a fiver...but I feel annoyed someone preyed on my kindness.

THIS IS THE STORY:

M4 (Junction with A34) Chievely Services Saturday night 10pm cold and dark...my wife and I pull in to break long furniture moving journey in rental van.

Just get back into vehicle and there's a tap on the window... woman in her 30s, ordinary looking, middle class sounding. In case you've seen her - she's white, with dark hair, wearing black hooded coat, black gloves, black hardback slung across her body, dark jeans. Slim but not druggie-like wasting away or skeletal face etc. Normal looking!.

"Do you speak English. I don't mean tone rude but are you English..do you come from round here"

She says she and boyfriend are on the way back to Swansea (130miles) in their "2.4 litre non diesel car" ..and he drove off from previous stop with his wallet on the roof of the car..and now they are out of fuel, the petrol station won't let them have any and they have only about a tenth of a tank left.

I know... it sounds daft...but she sounded pretty genuine... she said her boyfriend was asking lorry drivers for a few quid, and she had come to the car park to ask people to help.

"I can barely say the word money ...we've raised £15 so far, but we're really stuck"

"you can take my picture of you like... I can show you the car and the fuel gauge"

Of course he said the car was over but he Travel Lodge...knowing in the cold I'd hardly bother to go over.

We gave her a fiver. She vaguely offered to take a business card if we have one so she could send it back...but was then off pretty quickly to another car.

She had cleverly hist a middle class couple with a middle class story... AS WE drove away.. I thought about it...with my logical head on:

1- did she had a purse/cards in her bag
2- didn't she have friends /family who could come and get them from Swansea
3- one /both of them could hitch home and get some money
4 - they could drive into the next services, pull up the the pumps and fill up..and THEN admit they did not have enough cash and leave their details.

BASICALLY it was a scam ...she is making a few quid every ten minutes... I can imagine perhaps £30-£40 an hour ..good money really.


Doh! - anyone else seen this one? It beats the guy selling surplus "designer" suits


p

[s2driveruk]

not one i have come across but was approached by a couple of guys a few years back on the M1 services just north of the M25....they decided to leave me as a marked bmw police car drove in our general direction. no idea what they were up to or about to engage me in conversation wise but crazy people out there!

[zefsider]

Ha ! Are people still pulling that one off ? Reminds me of Blackpool bus or train station ....'I'm only £1.37 short of my bus/train fare home...can you help me' ( the exact amount making it sound plausible ) Needless to say you would see them hours later off their heads with a bottle of white lightning or sat on the floor near the toilets nodding and dribbling from the bag of dust they bought with your money ...

[Rubberdubber]

Mmmm...interesting, not doubting it was a scam but put your feet in their shoes, appraoching loads of differnt people in a motorway services asking for money, I bet tehy got a few choiuice answers before some nice helpful person gave them some. can you imagine sending your Wife around, I recon I woudl never see mine again, maybe she'd get a better offer right enough, lol.

[philKS2]

Reminds me.. about five years ago my wife and i were approached in the middle of Bristol about 11pm by a young woman with a toddler in a pushchair...her opening line was that she needed £3.60 to make up the bus fare home to Stroud (40 miles away). When I told her we were just on the way home to Stroud and offered her a lift...she quickly vanished!

Mostly I was annoyed with her dragging a kid out on her begging mission...

[UrS4boy]

Gypsies/Romas/Travellers scams

[europeanme]

put it down to £5 of karma....if she is genuine she'll get home if not, she/they'll get theres at some point in life..

[Rikki Kitto]

Used to get this sort of sh** all the time when I was on the lorrys, sad fact of life some people would rather scam good hearted people than get of their ar*** and work for a living, scum. Anyhoo as mentioned Karma will work it's way around to you and them if it was a scam.

[quattro turbo 550bhp]

con

O... I have been had... I am a gullible person who falls for a good sob story...

BUT I wonder who else has seen this one... at the time I was tired, cold and felt sorry for the woman..but within a few mints of driving off thought it through and realised it was a scam. I can afford to lose a fiver...but I feel annoyed someone preyed on my kindness.

THIS IS THE STORY:

M4 (Junction with A34) Chievely Services Saturday night 10pm cold and dark...my wife and I pull in to break long furniture moving journey in rental van.

Just get back into vehicle and there's a tap on the window... woman in her 30s, ordinary looking, middle class sounding. In case you've seen her - she's white, with dark hair, wearing black hooded coat, black gloves, black hardback slung across her body, dark jeans. Slim but not druggie-like wasting away or skeletal face etc. Normal looking!.

"Do you speak English. I don't mean tone rude but are you English..do you come from round here"

She says she and boyfriend are on the way back to Swansea (130miles) in their "2.4 litre non diesel car" ..and he drove off from previous stop with his wallet on the roof of the car..and now they are out of fuel, the petrol station won't let them have any and they have only about a tenth of a tank left.

I know... it sounds daft...but she sounded pretty genuine... she said her boyfriend was asking lorry drivers for a few quid, and she had come to the car park to ask people to help.

"I can barely say the word money ...we've raised £15 so far, but we're really stuck"

"you can take my picture of you like... I can show you the car and the fuel gauge"

Of course he said the car was over but he Travel Lodge...knowing in the cold I'd hardly bother to go over.

We gave her a fiver. She vaguely offered to take a business card if we have one so she could send it back...but was then off pretty quickly to another car.

She had cleverly hist a middle class couple with a middle class story... AS WE drove away.. I thought about it...with my logical head on:

1- did she had a purse/cards in her bag
2- didn't she have friends /family who could come and get them from Swansea
3- one /both of them could hitch home and get some money
4 - they could drive into the next services, pull up the the pumps and fill up..and THEN admit they did not have enough cash and leave their details.

BASICALLY it was a scam ...she is making a few quid every ten minutes... I can imagine perhaps £30-£40 an hour ..good money really.


Doh! - anyone else seen this one? It beats the guy selling surplus "designer" suits


p

im on & off that junction everyday & never had it done to me there b4 but iv heard of it before thou, at other locations

[newsh]

Reminds me of...


Over the last month I have become a victim of a clever 'Eastern European' scam whilst out shopping.
Simply dropping into Sainsbury's supermarket for a bit of shopping turned out to be quite an experience. Don't be naive enough to think it couldn't happen to you or your friends! Here's how the scam works:
Two very good-looking 20-21 year-old girls of eastern European origin come over to your car as you are packing your shopping into the boot. They both start cleaning your windscreen, their breasts almost falling out of their skimpy T- shirts. When you thank them and offer them a tip, they'll say 'No' and instead they ask you for a lift to another supermarket, in my case, Tesco. You agree and they both get in the back seat.
On the way there, they start undressing, until both are completely naked. Then, when you pull over to remonstrate, one of them climbs over into the front seat and starts crawling all over your lap, kissing you, touching you intimately and thrusting herself against you, while the other one steals your wallet!
I had my wallet stolen on October 4th, 9th,10th, twice on the 15th, 17th, 20th, 24th and 29th. Also on November 1st, 4th, 6th, 9th and 10th and twice yesterday.So please warn all the older men you know to be on the lookout for this scam.
The best times seem to be just before lunch and about 4:30 in the afternoon.
P.S. Aldi have cheap wallets on sale for £1.99 each but Lidl wallets are £1.75 and look better!!

[macspring]

Reminds me of...


Over the last month I have become a victim of a clever 'Eastern European' scam whilst out shopping.
Simply dropping into Sainsbury's supermarket for a bit of shopping turned out to be quite an experience. Don't be naive enough to think it couldn't happen to you or your friends! Here's how the scam works:
Two very good-looking 20-21 year-old girls of eastern European origin come over to your car as you are packing your shopping into the boot. They both start cleaning your windscreen, their breasts almost falling out of their skimpy T- shirts. When you thank them and offer them a tip, they'll say 'No' and instead they ask you for a lift to another supermarket, in my case, Tesco. You agree and they both get in the back seat.
On the way there, they start undressing, until both are completely naked. Then, when you pull over to remonstrate, one of them climbs over into the front seat and starts crawling all over your lap, kissing you, touching you intimately and thrusting herself against you, while the other one steals your wallet!
I had my wallet stolen on October 4th, 9th,10th, twice on the 15th, 17th, 20th, 24th and 29th. Also on November 1st, 4th, 6th, 9th and 10th and twice yesterday.So please warn all the older men you know to be on the lookout for this scam.
The best times seem to be just before lunch and about 4:30 in the afternoon.
P.S. Aldi have cheap wallets on sale for £1.99 each but Lidl wallets are £1.75 and look better!!

LOL.

[Vorsprung durch Technik]

Reminds me of...


Over the last month I have become a victim of a clever 'Eastern European' scam whilst out shopping.
Simply dropping into Sainsbury's supermarket for a bit of shopping turned out to be quite an experience. Don't be naive enough to think it couldn't happen to you or your friends! Here's how the scam works:
Two very good-looking 20-21 year-old girls of eastern European origin come over to your car as you are packing your shopping into the boot. They both start cleaning your windscreen, their breasts almost falling out of their skimpy T- shirts. When you thank them and offer them a tip, they'll say 'No' and instead they ask you for a lift to another supermarket, in my case, Tesco. You agree and they both get in the back seat.
On the way there, they start undressing, until both are completely naked. Then, when you pull over to remonstrate, one of them climbs over into the front seat and starts crawling all over your lap, kissing you, touching you intimately and thrusting herself against you, while the other one steals your wallet!
I had my wallet stolen on October 4th, 9th,10th, twice on the 15th, 17th, 20th, 24th and 29th. Also on November 1st, 4th, 6th, 9th and 10th and twice yesterday.So please warn all the older men you know to be on the lookout for this scam.
The best times seem to be just before lunch and about 4:30 in the afternoon.
P.S. Aldi have cheap wallets on sale for £1.99 each but Lidl wallets are £1.75 and look better!!

Thats classic John.

[fourwh33ldriv3]

Reminds me of...


Over the last month I have become a victim of a clever 'Eastern European' scam whilst out shopping.
Simply dropping into Sainsbury's supermarket for a bit of shopping turned out to be quite an experience. Don't be naive enough to think it couldn't happen to you or your friends! Here's how the scam works:
Two very good-looking 20-21 year-old girls of eastern European origin come over to your car as you are packing your shopping into the boot. They both start cleaning your windscreen, their breasts almost falling out of their skimpy T- shirts. When you thank them and offer them a tip, they'll say 'No' and instead they ask you for a lift to another supermarket, in my case, Tesco. You agree and they both get in the back seat.
On the way there, they start undressing, until both are completely naked. Then, when you pull over to remonstrate, one of them climbs over into the front seat and starts crawling all over your lap, kissing you, touching you intimately and thrusting herself against you, while the other one steals your wallet!
I had my wallet stolen on October 4th, 9th,10th, twice on the 15th, 17th, 20th, 24th and 29th. Also on November 1st, 4th, 6th, 9th and 10th and twice yesterday.So please warn all the older men you know to be on the lookout for this scam.
The best times seem to be just before lunch and about 4:30 in the afternoon.
P.S. Aldi have cheap wallets on sale for £1.99 each but Lidl wallets are £1.75 and look better!!

Crikey and there are no Aldi stores near me.....

Brilliant seen this one loads of times now, and hell it's still funny as five...

[fourwh33ldriv3]

Scam I was tried with many moons previous was simply a hooker trying to get some £ outta ya. It was in the old truckstop at Wolverhampton, very pretty lady too, but wasnt really dressed to be going to visit her friends in Cardiff or somewhere like that, she asked if I could spare some pennies to help her get the train, about £2.50 would do the job as she too had good friends who gave her some but needed this small amount more and would do it, trouble was I was all up for saying come on in lass you look freezing cold and you could stay a while here....then me missus told me she couldn't come in....spoilsport....oh well...

[quattro turbo 550bhp]

scam

Reminds me of...


Over the last month I have become a victim of a clever 'Eastern European' scam whilst out shopping.
Simply dropping into Sainsbury's supermarket for a bit of shopping turned out to be quite an experience. Don't be naive enough to think it couldn't happen to you or your friends! Here's how the scam works:
Two very good-looking 20-21 year-old girls of eastern European origin come over to your car as you are packing your shopping into the boot. They both start cleaning your windscreen, their breasts almost falling out of their skimpy T- shirts. When you thank them and offer them a tip, they'll say 'No' and instead they ask you for a lift to another supermarket, in my case, Tesco. You agree and they both get in the back seat.
On the way there, they start undressing, until both are completely naked. Then, when you pull over to remonstrate, one of them climbs over into the front seat and starts crawling all over your lap, kissing you, touching you intimately and thrusting herself against you, while the other one steals your wallet!
I had my wallet stolen on October 4th, 9th,10th, twice on the 15th, 17th, 20th, 24th and 29th. Also on November 1st, 4th, 6th, 9th and 10th and twice yesterday.So please warn all the older men you know to be on the lookout for this scam.
The best times seem to be just before lunch and about 4:30 in the afternoon.
P.S. Aldi have cheap wallets on sale for £1.99 each but Lidl wallets are £1.75 and look better!!

lol lol lol thats funny, i beta go get sum cheap wallets n make sure i leave them a pound in them, cheap titty thrill, cheap lap dance il call that where was it again lol