Offline scammers, have you met any?

The same thing happened with me and a friend from UK. We at a coffee shop and this ragged dude came in with some papers and showed people his big wound around his ankle area and was asking for money. I was working on my laptop and my friend said, what do you think of that? I took a peek 30 seconds and said, I think it's a sham. I had experience making props and prosthetic stuff for special effects and makeup in plays, I could tell it was a hurriedly done prosthetic, but to the untrained eye it was almost perfect. First, with a wound that size and having a bit of puss, would've been swollen a bit. This guy's wound was not. It looked like it was plaster on for the heck of it. Second, the wound's wetness looked so fresh like it came straight out of a fridge. I could've done a better prosthetic job than this dude even without stage blood. hehehe. Then I said, I'll prove it. We were on the way out so I packed my stuff and as we talked I was walking sideways toward this dude, (making sure the dude saw my approach) I almost hit his wound with a slight swing of my backpack while he was sitting with his legs crossed. The guy didn't even flinch or made any attempt to cover his wound as the backpack almost brushed his wound. The security guard then came in and drove the guy away. My UK friend was amazed. Outside the coffee shop I then told him, the other thing that gave him away was that I recognized the dude. He lives in the same ghetto I was in. He may not have recognized me with my baseball cap on and even if he did, he didn't care. He comes from a family of long time shammers.

They are everywhere like people begging on the street, sometimes they are people we know and trust.

Hi Porco, i ever met a few con artist in my area here. In fact, there are a few people who ever came to my home asking for donation. They claimed that they are coming from many types of charity organization. My mother ever conned once by one of those people. They claimed they are doing charity for cancer research. But, funny after my mother passed the donation money to them, they quickly go off from my home. They are unable to produce any official receipt for the payment which they had received from my mother.

They are everywhere.. in front of every supermarket, pretending they are homeless, selling a look a like homeless newspaper. In fact they come from Romania, earn about 300 till 500 a week this way. By fooling people. I also find them in other countries. Amazing how high the score of people is who use god or allah to get money from you. Telling you that if you give them god will reward you or: I am a moslim so I ow you forever. Just don't believe those lies!