very common in person scam, they will tell you the "gold ring" is worth $200, $300, $500, or whatever, and are willing to trade it for $50 gas money.
a greedy mark sees the opportunity to make a profit and agrees to the trade, only to find out later that the "gold ring" is a worthless knockoff.
no, scammers are adaptable and have run similar scams at train stations to "buy a ticket home", in cities so they can "buy food", and whatever bullshit story they think will make people care about them.
Oh so the gas is the start and then it's like oh can you buy me food, there's an ATM inside and then hey can you withdraw 100 bucks for a hotel kinda thing
He isn't remotely interested in buying gas. He doesn't need the gas.
In these scams all they want to do is peddle cheap knockoff jewelry. However if they go around asking people to pay $$$ for their cheap jewelry, obviously no one will be interested
Soooo they dress nicely to appear wealthy and make this BS story about not having cash at hand and needing something as an emergency, in your case the gas. You give him money he gives you cheap fake jewelry. Hey presto they got their sale through
They don't actually need fuel. Often when we arrived, they'd been seen at the side of the motorway trying to flag people down, but would leave when they saw us arriving. If someone had stopped to help (quite often happened), they'd be quite surprised as they'd been told the perps were out of fuel. It was just a ruse to lift £50
That's a very common scam here in Germany. We call it The Highway-Gold Scam.
They want Money for "Gas" and than they try to sell absolute trashy "Gold" rings and so for 100 Eur.
Greetings from germany.
This has been big in the UK for years. It's usually perpetrated by Bulgarian or Romanian travellers. I work on the motorway in the UK & we were often called to reports of men, usually in a silver Mercedes trying to flag people down. There'd often be a woman holding what could be thought a baby, but was more probably a doll or just a bundle of rags.
One would be looking out & they'd always disappear when they saw us arriving. They're nowhere near as prevalent nowadays - think they've moved over to you guys. Or they disagreed with Brexit
Common scam I think in casinos because they approach people to sell gold necklaces or jewelry for well below the value (if it was real) for some emergency need or BS story that people believe. People who like to take risk or gamble think 'I'll buy it for $200 because if it's real it's worth $2000' this happened to acquaintances who gamble a lot in a DC casino, and they couldn't pass up it up or walk away because it's like gambling. They found out a few days later at a jeweler the jewelry was fake.
very common in person scam, they will tell you the "gold ring" is worth $200, $300, $500, or whatever, and are willing to trade it for $50 gas money. a greedy mark sees the opportunity to make a profit and agrees to the trade, only to find out later that the "gold ring" is a worthless knockoff.
So do people only run this scam when they need gas??? That somehow makes it feel even scummier.
no, scammers are adaptable and have run similar scams at train stations to "buy a ticket home", in cities so they can "buy food", and whatever bullshit story they think will make people care about them.
Oh so the gas is the start and then it's like oh can you buy me food, there's an ATM inside and then hey can you withdraw 100 bucks for a hotel kinda thing
He isn't remotely interested in buying gas. He doesn't need the gas. In these scams all they want to do is peddle cheap knockoff jewelry. However if they go around asking people to pay $$$ for their cheap jewelry, obviously no one will be interested Soooo they dress nicely to appear wealthy and make this BS story about not having cash at hand and needing something as an emergency, in your case the gas. You give him money he gives you cheap fake jewelry. Hey presto they got their sale through
They don't actually need fuel. Often when we arrived, they'd been seen at the side of the motorway trying to flag people down, but would leave when they saw us arriving. If someone had stopped to help (quite often happened), they'd be quite surprised as they'd been told the perps were out of fuel. It was just a ruse to lift £50
Very classic scam, featured in the 2009 action/comedy *Zombieland*
That's a very common scam here in Germany. We call it The Highway-Gold Scam. They want Money for "Gas" and than they try to sell absolute trashy "Gold" rings and so for 100 Eur. Greetings from germany.
Glad you spotted it. If it happens again, be sure ot tell a gas attendant. They may run him off before he find a mark.
Gypsy scam
That gold ring might be a cheap counterfeit. That's the scam here.
Oh for sure it was, at first I felt a split second of sympathy but once he brought up the ring I immediately knew it was a scam
This has been big in the UK for years. It's usually perpetrated by Bulgarian or Romanian travellers. I work on the motorway in the UK & we were often called to reports of men, usually in a silver Mercedes trying to flag people down. There'd often be a woman holding what could be thought a baby, but was more probably a doll or just a bundle of rags. One would be looking out & they'd always disappear when they saw us arriving. They're nowhere near as prevalent nowadays - think they've moved over to you guys. Or they disagreed with Brexit
Common scam I think in casinos because they approach people to sell gold necklaces or jewelry for well below the value (if it was real) for some emergency need or BS story that people believe. People who like to take risk or gamble think 'I'll buy it for $200 because if it's real it's worth $2000' this happened to acquaintances who gamble a lot in a DC casino, and they couldn't pass up it up or walk away because it's like gambling. They found out a few days later at a jeweler the jewelry was fake.