I looked at the total looked at him and he pulls the think of the baby card. I walk him to the self checkout and he scans all his stuff, the total was like 350 dollars. It felt odd right off the bat but having just become a dad myself I felt compassionate enough to begrudgingly agreed after he said he didn't want money, he just needed someone to buy some formula. I was at the grocery store and some guy speaking broken english came up to me with a sob story about losing his job and having a baby with a special diet and needing to feed him. Not 100% sure I got scammed but 99.99% sure I got scammed over baby formula. It seems silly now as people are so aware of these type of scams but at the time it really wasn't that obvious. She realised he wasn't really answering her questions or responding to specific thing she had said. The messages were a bit disconnected and seemed scripted. When we looked over his messages after finding out, it all seemed so obvious. They start off small like phone credit and it escalates to life savings and all worldly possessions. She googled this situation as something didnt sit right and discovered the popular scam of Nigerian men using photos of soldier's, setting up profiles and getting older women to part with cash. She had no money and told him so and he got a bit weird over it. Then he asked if she could buy phone credit for his daughter as he couldn't use his money abroad whilst he was stationed. She started talking to some army guy through a dating site and very quickly he got romantic and almost in love over messages. My mom was so close to falling for the 'soldier' scam. Hereistothehometeam, Andrea Piacquadio Report It finally hits my dad and he turns around to find the guy but he was long gone. It was only on t he ride home that I brought it up to my dad “you’re telling me none of that seemed off to? Random homeless man rides up just in time with just the right part we need?” My dad thanks the man so much and then gives him another $40 for his trouble. The man went under the truck, another 10 seconds pops back up, says give it a try. Said if he gave him $50 he’d put it on for him. The man said he just so happened to have the same part in his bag of nicknacks. He told my dad he found the problem, a small part was missing on his truck (me and my dad are dips***s when it comes to cars so I can’t remember what part he said.
Guy gets under the truck and in 10 seconds comes back out.
My dad explains that he has no idea his truck just won’t start. Suddenly, a homeless man on a bike rolls up and asks what the problem was. My dad is getting frustrated as we have chilled food with us and it’s summer. We come out and load them into the truck, and the truck won’t start? Never had problems with the truck before this. Me and my dad go into Walmart to buy some groceries.
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