• RovingFox@infosec.pub
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    8 months ago

    In a trains station gave someone enough money for a ticket cuz he was claiming that he lost his train. Felt real stupid when I saw him the next day asking the same shit.

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      8 months ago

      Consider that at the time you were helping a stranger with the relatively trivial cost of a train ticket.

      Now you know you “helped” a likely homeless dude.

      Technically a scam but a pretty minor one.

      • WeeSheep@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Train tickets by me cost 4x an hour of minimum wage work. Even if a single person helped per hour, that’s more than enough to make it worthwhile compared to a paying job. That’s a scam, taking advantage of people’s help as a regular living rather than making an honest living.