I always have questions about these type of posts, and I very rarely share them

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A person on my facebook just shared a supposed incident that happened in my city. The incident involved a young lady and a well spoken, cleanly dressed black man. Those two identifiers always makes me raise my eyebrows. Is this going to be true or an elaborate tale to scare people? The story didn't say what time of night it was, just that it was "last night." One presumes that it was after dark, but it could have been anytime of the evening. Anyway, the man asked her to look at his brochure, he was a realtor. So she starts pumping her gas and looking at it. Well, her hands start going numb and she starts feeling dizzy, so she drops the brochure and asks the man what is going on. He moves in closer and tells her to be quiet, so she screams. Luckily there's someone pulling in and the man runs off. I have questions Why is it always a black man in these stories? Regardless of wether you believe them to be true or not, why is it always a black man. I know it's dark, but surely she would have seen if he was wearing gloves. Would that not have given her warning bells? The post was written in June of last year, so gloves would be a silly thing to wear at night. Even if they were driving gloves, most people take them off and leave them in the car. What I am getting at is while this could be true, there's just enough details to scare you, but not enough to make me believe it's real. I mean, it very well could be real. However, why did the post not mention the police being called? It says "she remembers enough details about him for a sketch to be made." However, it was dark. I know that gas stations have lights on at night, but she wasn't going into the situation thinking she needed to look at him and memorize. Yeah, it could be true, but there's enough of these going around every year for me to say it's a scare tactic. What say you?