Will you help a stranger with money?

i think its completely scam.no body today travel with exact amount of money for thier need. we all take some more cash if we are going for a place far from home. nowadays atm cards are availble for chldren also. why he dont go for an atm counter.i think you must describe the exact reason he told to you about why he dont have cash. and without a correct reason its not good to give money to a strager.

If it for just a dollar or two I just gave it. Maybe it's just a scam or a syndicated team to get money but what if it true. After all it's just a dollar or two. Maybe oneday we had the same situation like the man, who will help us? I just try to think in that sense.

i can't believe a stranger with money. this type of drama i have seen at many places. many people say they have missed train or bus and have no money. they just want to extract money

Just recently I helped a stranger who needed a little bit of money, but it was under different circumstances which made me feel quite safe in helping her. She and I were in our first day-long class and as I walked toward the cafeteria at lunch, she came right up to me and said she did not bring money with her for lunch in the cafeteria, and wondered if I would loan her some. Of course, I did, and she was very grateful. Two weeks later when the class met again, she brought me the money plus some. I told her she did not need to pay extra, but she insisted because she was so glad I was willing to help her, and that I waited two weeks for her to return it. We sit together for lunch each time the class meets now and enjoy conversation.

sometimei will do that thing occasionly.

It dissapoints me whenever the news says something about the modus operandi of people pretending to have no fare to go home only to find out later that they were fakes. It gives me question that what if there is one event where in the people who ask you for money speaks the truth. Will anyone passing by believe them or they will just thing that all were just scam?

it depends on how much money i have and how much money they ask for. it also depends whether they need it that badly, and whether the reason seems genuine enough. its good to help people in need. whatever surplus you have can be best utilised by helping others. we often have the notion that only beggar need money, or that we should only give the actually needy people .. but sometimes even people belinging to good background face situations in which they are in dire necessity, and in such times, it is just as good to help them. if the man and his daughetr would have seemed genuine enough to me, and i had all the things i needed to travel, then supposing i had 5000 bucks with me, i would've given them around 1500 bucks. thats what i feel as of now, but you just can't say you would do exactly the same if actually faced with the circumstance.

Hi mtsandeep, I believe it is always controversial whether to give money to a stranger whom seems to deserve help. Of course in genuine cases we are doing the correcting to help those who need assistance badly, as sometimes we need others to help us as well during emergency need. But nowadays there are many bad eggs who pretend to be pitiful persons lurking around for their preys. In your case the persons might not really your region people as they only recognized you from the bag. You could ask them to show the identity cards or other particular things or affairs happened recently in your place you live, to test whether they are your local inhabitants. Nowadays I understand that there are lots of people using this tactics to earn their living, so we must be extra careful whenever come across such cases. posting and take care.

I have both been helper and the helpee in this situation. Often, it's with bus fair or paratransit fare because I won't have the exact change. I feel like it's good for your karma to help out people in these situations because you never know when you're going to need help yourself. In my way of viewing the Universe, if you never help anyone else people aren't going to be inclined to help you. For example, if you forget your wallet one day which happens to everybody no matter how rich you are.

it really depends, i need to see thier sincerity and it depends on the amount.. if it's a plane ticket that they need and not money, maybe i would help them especially if i have extra cash, i would buy them the ticket myself that way i know that they will really use the ticket and not scam me with the money.. but if i find them really untruthful with the reasons why they ask for the money, then i wont really give a single cent to them.. it's a case to case basis i believe..

yes, if you could make sure that what they told was all correct you can help them.

I agree its a really tricky and uncomfortable situation. it all depends on your gut feeling. take my instance.. one day i met a guy who said that he he had lost his purse and all.. and he asked me for some change for the bus ticket... i thought he was saying the truth and gave him the change. now after a few months i met the same person.. perhaps he didn't recognize me.. but i remembered his face.. and guess what??? that guy was trying to sell the same story to me again... now seriously after such an incident do you think i would again give money to a stranger even if he's genuinely in need of it??? anyway i still helped a guy with some money even after the incident.. its a small amount of money so i really didn't care... but i think most of us do hesitate in giving money to a stranger just because we don't know for certain if his reason is genuine or not

maybe and maybe not.if i was thinking of helping the stranger with money,i have to prepare myself of risking losing it,so basically i only lend the strangers small sum of money,just enough to help him/her a little bit.because now days people cant be trust.not that i dont want to see a harmony community (start from myself),but i was how the community already built by itself.i never had been scammed,buy friends did.i had experience losing money to a stranger asking to borrow some money to buy bus ticket,said he'll pay me back.but seriously,i'm not going to be fooled.how he's going to find me back.so just help him,and said "just keep the money to yourself"

give a money to the people,if you have to you too

It is a tricky situation. Sometimes people are really in need of help and I go by my gut feeling. If I think they are genuine I would go with them to buy them tickets. I have also bought food for people who said they had not eaten in days. On the other hand I have encountered people who did not want food or water just money. Those I walk away from.

I've given a couple of dollars to strangers before, one women lost her wallet (so she says) and needed some money to catch the bus. I only had $5 on me and gave it to her. I had a metro card so I was able to use that to get home :)

I have given money to help strangers before, but now I will not do that again. One reason is that it is not save to do that now. People here always lose important things in that way. ANd that also makes the stranger get things for nothing. So now more and more, even young people try to earn a fortune in that way. The other is now I do not have enough money to help other. My income can hardly cover my expense, and I have to tight my trousers now.

Yes i will help someone if i have the money. I cant be at peace knowing that they dont have the money to buy a ticket. I will feel guilty if i know that the person really needed my help but i did not even do anything about it. I have experience that already and i have help them out. I cant also imagine if i were in there shoe and i dont have no one to run to. I dont want to be on the same situation as them. To help other people who are in need is a good feeling. It is good to share your blessings to those who needed it the most. It is your way of saying thank you to God for all the blessings you received. I believe that the more you give the more blessings will come your way.

In this world there are very few people who will help the stranger with money almost none will help. more over they thinks that if they dont know the person then why they will help and why to loose the money by giving it one whom they dont know..

It depends on the situation.Mostly,I cant judge if it is true like what they say or not.So just one or two dollors ,I will help them.But they cant only lend you litte money.My answer is say no.