I may be naive or just stupid, but I’m damned if I can figure this out. It’s obviously a scam, but what’s going on?
Mrs Preen took the mutt for a walk last Saturday at around 7.30am. Realising she needed some cash to go to the farmer’s market she went to Vauxhall overground station which has a cash machine conveniently located inside the station.
She withdrew the cash and turned to leave the station.
Now pay attention as this is where it gets interesting. A reasonably well-dressed young man then approached her and said: “I need some help counting this money.”
Mrs Preen looked down and saw he had a large sum of cash in his hands, mostly in twenty-pound notes.
Not knowing what’s going on but sensing something iffy Mrs P. says, “I’m sure you don’t need my help.”
At that point a middle-aged woman took my wife by the elbow and said, ‘you don’t want to get involved with that’ and led her away.
The woman left and said no more, but it certainly appeared as if she’d seen this little slice of London life before.
Now I know what you’re thinking but no, my wife did not get her pocket picked or have her purse stolen. And of course the money was probably fake.
But what was the scam that seems to have been interrupted?
Was the guy hoping my wife would become flustered and put her bag down so he could nick it? Perhaps I’ve been watching too much ‘Line of Duty’ but was he trying to get my wife’s fingerprints on the money?
Can anybody help me out and explain what was going on?
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