Ich möchte zunächst anerkennen, wie viel Idiot ich bin.
Ich lebe in Würmern und bin seit ungefähr einem Jahr hier. Heute wurde ich von einem Engländer angehalten, der verloren aussah und mich nach Anweisungen nach Sparkasse fragte. Ich zeigte ihn in die richtige Richtung und er erklärte dann, dass seine Kreditkarte gestohlen worden sei. Er stammte aus Großbritannien und anscheinend hatten einige Einheimische ihm gesagt, dass Sparkasse möglicherweise helfen kann (nicht sicher wie, aber was auch immer, oder?).
Dann fragte er mich, ob ich Geld für mich hätte und sagte, er könne es sofort an mich übertragen. Ich sagte ihm, ich hätte nur 20 Euro. Er war super chillig darüber und sagte: "Oh, das ist okay. Ich brauche wie 300, also wird 20 mir nichts tun."
Als ich gerade gehen wollte, fragte er, ob ich stattdessen das Geld abheben könne. Ich war sehr zögernd, und er bemerkte, dass er mich beruhigte und sagte, ich musste es nicht tun, und es war in Ordnung. Bla bla.
Dann übergab er tatsächlich 300 Pfund zu mir und zeigte mir Beweise über WhatsApp, nachdem ich ihm meine Iban gegeben hatte. Er schickte mir sogar ein Selfie und ein Bild seines Führerscheins, um es legitim erscheinen zu lassen. Wir warteten 30 Minuten, bis das Geld eintraf, aber ich hatte einen Zug zum Fangen. Er überzeugte mich irgendwie, dass das Geld seit Abschluss der Übertragung in ein paar Stunden eintreffen sollte, also sollte ich einfach das Geld abheben und ihm übergeben.
Ich tat es. Weil ich ein verdammter Idiot bin.
Fünfzehn Minuten später löschte er alles – den Führerschein, den Transfer Screenshot und sein Selfie. Zum Glück erwartete ich, dass dies passieren könnte, also hatte ich sie bereits für den Fall gerettet.
Jetzt ist es Sonntag und ich gehe zur Polizeistation, um ihn zu melden (ich habe es nicht früher gemacht, weil ich ein paar Tage außerhalb der Stadt war).
Ich weiß, ich bin ein Idiot, aber ich bin ein Student und ich habe so etwas noch nie erlebt. Das schlimmste Teil? Das war mein Mietgeld. Ich habe kaum genug, um zu überleben, da ich Gehaltsscheck in Gehaltsscheck lebe und Teilzeit arbeite.
Meine Fragen: Glaubst du, es gibt eine Chance, dass ich mein Geld durch die Polizei zurückbekomme? Ich habe sein Selfie- und Führerschein – das sollte ausreichen, um ihn zu fangen, oder?
Ich weiß nicht, Mann. 360 Euro sind für manche Menschen nicht viel, aber für mich ist es alles.
TLDR; Ich gab einem Fremden fast 400 Euro, um ihm zu helfen, nachdem er seine Kreditkarte verloren hatte, nur um gespenstisch und nicht zurückgezahlt zu werden.
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Von mlutfi98
21 Kommentare
You are never seeing that money again. See it as an expensive lesson.
Oh damn, you fell for it.
I’m going to assume the license was fake and they won’t be able to do anything with that.
I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting to get the money back
Puuh from your story I have to admit: you deserve it
Hi, OP. I’m sorry this happened to you, people suck.
Please report this to the police. At the same time, it’s best to not get your hopes up. You’re most likely never seeing that money again. I hope you can make it work financially somehow…
Bruh what did you expect? Giving 360 euros to a guy you see on the street for the first time in your life? Big L but consider it a lesson. Next time don’t be so gullible.
You do not have his driver’s license. You have the screenshot of a picture of a driver’s licence with a picture that vaguely looks like the guy you talked too.
I’m sorry for the dishonesty of my fellow Brit. Sadly, many of us are cunts. Even if he had good intentions to start with (doubtful), he’s probably now realised he has got away with some free money, with low risk of any blowback.
Chase it as long as you feel motivated to do so, but then just write it off as a lesson learned. You’re only an idiot if you do it again, this was just a learning opportunity that you have to be savvy as well as being nice. The upside is you’re the better person in this scenario; you did something decent and got burned. It’s shit but it happens. Hope you don’t have too much hardship from the loss. 🙏🙏
I know you already acknowledged this was dumb, but giving someone 300€ when you’re living paycheck to paycheck is, let’s say, an interesting choice.
Some people learn by watch, others have to be the ones the others will watch to learn.
This is very typical scam ..
Sorry to hear that. There are always good people an assholes. You are good, don’t let that feel like a weakness.
Report the guy to the police.
Keep an eye on your bank account if that guy knows your IBAN. While it’s not that common, he might cause a charge to your account via Lastschrift. He can’t access your account directly, but he could use the IBAN through a business as payment for a service contract.
Please correct me if this is too unlikely or incorrect.
This is what happens when you never get scammed in a video game as a kid. At least it wasn’t more. Don’t worry, it’s something pretty much everyone has to go through unfortunately.
If the driver license etc. is real and he has an address in Germany you maybe could after a long while get it back, but honestly it is very unrealistic to be the case. But maybe they can use his photo and see if it matches other cases. He most likely gave you fake ones and is probably not even registered in Germany. Don’t ever give money to others, especially when they are not happy with smaller sums and want a higher one. Desperate people are usually not that pushy and his bank could have given him some kind of access within the next few days or family and friends could have given him money per the express option. You look young and he most likely noticed you were a foreigner and most likely not informed about scams here, so you were an easy target.
In general don’t buy anything from others on the street because they can’t take it with them back home etc. you will most likely buy a fake item, don’t agree to pay for the grocery shopping of someone because often this person will add other expensive things to the shopping cart and go way over the agreed limit, don’t sign anything on the street where someone wants some kind of donations from you without an official stand behind them since it will most likely also be a scam etc. In general Whatsapp is used by scammers a lot since you can delete everything there and they love to fake transfers. If you like to help and feel sorry for someone only give them the money you have on hand and nothing further. If you feel pressures say you don’t have your card with you and you don’t do online banking or you have no money besides this
I bumped into those „Englishman“ during Christmas time. Or rather I overheard one trying to scam somebody. It took me five minutes to see the rest of the group and I was trying to find a police officer but nobody was around. Too bad that people still fall for this scam.
Same thing happend to me about 3 weeks ago in frankfurt – I have a picture of him if you are interested in reporting this to police message me I got scammed out if 200€
Don’t beat yourself up about it and don’t let the mean comments get to you. These people know how to overwhelm and manipulate. It’s easy to fall for one of these if you’re not aware of the scam and on your toes.
I won’t dunk on you, but will share one piece of advice.
When in the street, always pull out of an exchange when someone appears to be soooo nice out of nowhere or asks for any amount of money above pocket change.
Oh, and don’t play street games when others appear to be failing terribly with the sense that you’ll own it. Another scam.
What a shame. Sorry this happened to you. Hope the police can at least try to do something to prevent it happening to someone else.
Just to say though, judging from the language of those texts, this guy was absolutely not from the UK. Did he really sound English? Not a single text suggests native or even fluent English speaker.
You were trying to be a good fellow human being. It’s an expensive lesson on human nature, keep being a good human being, but be cautious next time you want to help someone