tambok 320 Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 The ingenuity of scammers here never ceases to amaze me. I mean, you've got to be intelligent to come up with stuff like this. This is mostly in the Manila/Malate/Ermita area- a guy walks around at night with a foam lunch box and bumps into you from the side. Then, he staggers and drops the box with food getting spilled on the road. He then yells at you that because of you he has nothing to eat now and that you ruined his meal. He asks for 200-300 pesos so that he could buy food. After he gets his money, he repeats the same thing with another tourist. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
enoonmai 674 Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 I wouldn't call it ingenuity but it happened to me in Manhattan - Central Park West on my way to work in '97. Styro container of noodles. They're out there. Link to post Share on other sites
JSL-USMC 1,020 Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 I was wondering if you looked around and found a empty Courvoisier bottle filled it with water and work that scam. Nah, it probably wouldn't work. Link to post Share on other sites
motorboy 2,325 Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 looks like I just found my new job in Cebu, happy bumping 2 Link to post Share on other sites
bushwacker 47 Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Were there little piles of food all over the sidewalk looking suspecious? Link to post Share on other sites
thebob 18,260 Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 I just tell him that going hungry should make him more careful next time. 4 Link to post Share on other sites
roaddog 219 Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 So you fell for the spilled my food scam. Watch out for the white guy at whatever mall. Super scam. Link to post Share on other sites
Skywalker 19,177 Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 In Bangkok a few years ago, I saw a young girl and her mother, doing the same scam but using a mobile phone. The young girl bumped into me, dropped her phone (which immediately fell apart) and the mother started shouting. I calmly picked up the pieces, realised straight away that this was a phone that was a piece of junk that clearly hadn't worked for a long time, and crucially had no battery. I gave the mother the phone, said a few words in Thai, and walked away. 3 Link to post Share on other sites
contraman 29,028 Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 In Bangkok a few years ago, I saw a young girl and her mother, doing the same scam but using a mobile phone. The young girl bumped into me, dropped her phone (which immediately fell apart) and the mother started shouting. I calmly picked up the pieces, realised straight away that this was a phone that was a piece of junk that clearly hadn't worked for a long time, and crucially had no battery. I gave the mother the phone, said a few words in Thai, and walked away. And those words were ? 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Topper 3,785 Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 And those words were ? 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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