How they tried to scam me for money

Hello everyone
I changed my place of study not so long ago. Now, instead of a small and more or less cozy college, I study at a huge university with a bunch of people, which, as a sociophobe, does not particularly please me.

And one of the main disadvantages (for me personally) of the new educational institution is its location. It's a two-hour drive in one direction. But besides the general fatigue and additional expenses, additional interaction with people also turned out to be one of the problems. I'll tell you about one of them that happened this morning as I drive back home.

I accompany everything with a view from the window of the train. How much prettier Moscow has become under Sobyanin...

It was about 10-11 a.m. After taking the train to Tsaritsyno (anyone who lives in Moscow and the region will understand), I was about to go down to the subway. However, a man stopped me.

He looks about 30 years old, has a Central Asian appearance, but he looks pretty neat. I'm not the most callous person, so I respond to requests for help. You never know who got sick. But that wasn't the case at all.

After introducing himself and asking my name, he began to explain the situation. Like, anyway, they're holding up their wages at work, they're in trouble with money, and his child is starving.

"So," I thought to myself. Such conversations about a child are already extremely alarming, but I decided to listen to what he has to say next.

He started opening his phone and showing a screenshot of the mixture his "daughter" needed. It costs 4,500 rubles, but the scammer begins to reassure - "no, no, I only need half the amount." 

When I said that the amount was serious, he gave me the following: "I will receive my salary in a few days. Why don't you give me your number, and I'll dial you when the money arrives and transfer it. Here, take my watch for this time, if you want." - and shows me his supposedly smart watch.

At this point, it becomes clear that there is a 99% chance that you are facing a fraud. Just think logically - why didn't he sell the watch? Why is it so easy to offer them?

When I tell him that I can transfer a maximum of 100 rubles (which I wasn't going to do), he first tried his best to look at my phone, and then said that I was cheating on him (heh, ironically) and that I had more money.

Then everything turned into a surreality. He started showing a photo of his daughter, pretentiously asking "do I know what premature babies are" and asking to transfer at least 100 rubles to the phone so that he could make a call.

It seems to me that if I had haggled even more, I could have even gone so far as to ask to borrow 10 rubles.

In the end, I said that I was "not going to help" and left because time was running out and I was late for classes. And you know, it's even a pity that I left, because if there had been time, I would have approached the nearest law enforcement officer with this "father".

Because as I already read on the phone, sitting on the subway, this practice has been going on for a couple of years. And if the victim is usually taken to the nearest pharmacies, where this mixture does not turn out to be, they decided to turn the lite version on me.

Another view from the train

What is the purpose of this post? First of all, I have nothing to do on the train. Secondly, as a warning.

It is better not to give money to anyone in such places at all. At train stations, in the subway, etc., and even more so. 

If something like this suits you, then at least ignore it. Better yet, contact a police officer if there is one nearby, or call one yourself. Yes, yes, I'm a mess.

In the meantime, I'm saying goodbye to you.