Riding the Sobu line to Akiba and a tall foreigner gets on then starts talking to a woman and shoving his phone in her face to read something. Maybe he thinks they're that easy… She politely declines, looks up and sees me, a fellow westerner, and hits me with this, doesn't tremble or skip a beat:
"Hi, I'm Marc from Belgium. I was at the library today and my wallet was stolen. I called the police, they came (immediate red flag) and said there's no security camera on the bag…oh and you're flying home tomorrow so we can't loan you any money. Can I get some money to tie me over tonight?"
I apologised and said I've got bugger all (big night last night) and asked him if he had a card or anything else to use. He then said he lost that too, and then said "so can we go to the ATM? I need about ¥5,000".
🤣🤣 Sorry mate, not today.
He left, moved down the carriage.
The dude was tall (~185cm/6'2") wearing a long sleeved shirt, wide brim hat (on Saturday night), dirty old black facemask and a monobrow.
Keep an eye out for shady folks like this trying to scam you, he wasn't even prepared to listen to practical advice I had for him.
by sumocirclejerk