it was 2:30 at the time and it takes maybe 2 hours worst case to get to a random place in SF from berkeley via BART etc, so i didn't entirely buy the time thing, she had enough thinking time to make that up
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i thought if she was genuine she'd be willing to take the time loss to have more time to convince me but if she was scamming me she'd want to give me as little time as possible to probe her cover story. but idk, who knows
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i told her that i couldn't help her, that i thought if this was real she'd come with me, and left. i walked away and i didn't hear a sound from her; no bursting into tears or anything
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i still don't know if this was the right call so poll: what do you guys think?
- obvious scam bro93.7%
- this was real u monster6.3%
414 votesFinal results
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worst case if it was real she sleeps on the streets for two days, obviously not fun but not a death sentence??? idk man idk :////////
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i *really* don't like not being able to tell if strangers are lying to me. if i 100% believed her it would have been no problem to just give her $100 straight out, i wouldn't even need to be paid back
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someone suggested googling the details, i don't have a totally exact match but "sob story scam" is a perfect fit for the general caetgory
google.com/search?q=sob+s
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asked a few people for thoughts and they brought up that apparently it's a common scam / lying thing to offer a bunch of "proof" / evidence unprompted; i wasn't paying much conscious attention to that but it is weird that she showed me her driver's license unprompted
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Did she speak real fast? That’s always my filter for whether they’re trying to get inside my loop
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ish? not in a way that stood out to me