Headed home from work, female sits opposite me and strikes up a conversation.
5 minutes in, she seems harmless enough.
Then asks for a favour, can she give me $40 cash and in return I transfer her $40 to her account.
I politely declined and she immediately moves carriages.
I'm sure it was a scam of some type, but not sure what her end game was. If I agreed, would she have asked to put her bank details in my phone then either changed the amount or pocketed my phone?
If I had of sent her $40 and taken her cash, not sure if my details are compromised at all.
Any ideas brains trust?
Possibly Avoided Money Scam on The Train Tonight
LJonoCorn on 19/07/2022 - 23:17
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Not worth to counterfeit $20 notes.
You pay someone else so she can receive goods untraceable to her?
Controlling family/partner monitor her accounts?
It's more likely she'll do the reverse-cash scam on you.
Pretends that she got too little/too much, and asks for another transfer and gets you.Eg/ turns out she's only got a $50 note, says you need to transfer $10, but somehow manipulates it into something else (eg $1000 instead of $10.00)
Or she's only got $5 on her, apologises and wonders where her money went, so she straight steals $45 off you. Or she attempts to pay you back but gets your details and contact you later, and follows the scam remotely. Or she shows that she paid you back, but that's through a Fake App, and the refund/transfer looks real but never occurred.PS: These women are dangerous, usually they will have 1 or 2 men, who are in on it and they might mug you. If you went to any shady country/city you'll see this happens commonly.
I reckon she would just claim she didn't receive the transfer, and ask OP to resend or give cash back.
how old was she?
in her 20's, but looked like she'd had a tough life
…but looked like she'd had a tough life
in other words, a junkie? lol
a high functioning one
Cute?
asking the real questions
not really, but wearing stacks of makeup and dressed nicely in business attire.
dang it thats my kink
rains $5 bills
Me too, but I'm cheap
pelts 5c shrapnel
Don't think your details would have been compromised as the description on transfers doesn't show your bsb or ACC number.
Hamza23 state, most likely fake notes. That's quite a logical explanation for small scams.
When I worked in retail, sometimes I needed smaller notes and I had to go to woolies. But now they stopped it cause I wasn't buying anything. Rep said people were asking for smaller notes and giving them fake notes.
Just to recap: At 11:17PM a woman wanted you to pay her?
Have you ever paid a lady of the night before?
sounds like no …happy ending to this story
ha, it was around 630pm, Lilydale line in Melbourne. She got on at box hill
Start with $40 and if all went well, it will be $millions to clean.
Worst case scenario, she checks out your big bank balance and signals her pimps. You get kidnapped and fleeced down to your brief.
That's my fetish..
This would have been a good youtube vid.
Yeah she was gonna give op 500 dollars for being nice
Bank account is someone elses & you’ve on record for buying drugs untraceable to her
money laundering for noobs?
got to start somewhere I guess
graduated from the vending machines
I just laugh when people ask for cash these days..
Why?
I try to use cash as much as possible. You'll miss it when it's gone.
"CBDC's are coming" -John Snowjob.
I find it annoying , everyone accepts eftpos these days and cash is just something to get lost or misplaced and I find it easier to track and manage through my phone
She asks you to send her $40 and you do it. She gives you $40 and waits. She then screams blue murder and that you scammed her and there just happens to be two very large Eastern European men who magically appear to come to her rescue and force you to give her the $40 back.
That's a lot of work for $40…
40 aud goes a decent way in eastern europe…
or in asian countries
@pegaxs: me: asian looking as hell
also me: high vis vest, fxd pants and steel caps, chain smoking durries, scoffing 4 and 20 meat pies slathered in heinz sauce and necking vb long necks at 20 to 8 in the morning
them: where are u reallllyyyy from though
That's a lot of work for $40…
You scam 10 people an hour and that's $400… Hell, if you scam 1 person an hour, that's $40/h… that's almost double minimum wage and you dont pay tax on it, so it's closer to earning about $60/h if you were paying tax.
Remember she works with 2 pimps so you need to divide that by 3 and it will end up as $20/h minimum wage. Though self employed.
i know~
she put poison on her $40 notes so when you touch it you will falling in love with her and transfer $40,000 insteadJokes on her - my account already on stop / over draft.
Did she give you a reason for this request?
she mentioned something really quickly re. bank access issue
It could be related to blackmailing you for prostitution or something… It gives your name on the transaction list.
Did you provide any other details such as mobile phone number?
Else, she was off to her next client and did not want to have any money on her. Usually you do not bring any money or bank cards as you can get beat up and harassed by non-paying clients.
It could also be that she is being monitored, e.g. sex trafficking and any money she has on her needs to be handed to a pimp.
Been there.
Reminds me of this scam.
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. 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 September 4th, 9th,10th, twice on the 15th, 17th, 20th, 24th and 29th. Also on October 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.
…while the other one steals your wallet!
No need to "steal". In that situation, I'd be happy to hand over my wallet!
Where you can you find cheap wallets? haha
Right here!
Order in bulk and keep them in the boot! After they run off with your wallet, simply walk around to the boot and grab another one to be ready for your next session! hahha
Without doubt a scam of some description.
i need full details so I know where to avoid this, asking for a friend
Interesting. Could wait until you’re about to hit the transfer button on your phone and grab the phone and leg it?
This was my guess also, but usually authorization is the absolutely last step of an unknown transaction.
Could be an attempt to see your balance and see if you're worth robbing?
Counterfeit notes?