Possible Scam at MK Station?
Posted by Consistent-Art1467@reddit | miltonkeynes | View on Reddit | 11 comments
This happened not even a minute ago, I was walking to the gym group by the station when I was stopped by a woman in one of those electric disability scooter things.
She asked if I can help her with a taxi home and that she needed £20 for it home and no one else including family could help her.She was crying and I felt bad and started to call for a taxi for her.
But when I tried to call her a taxi she kept asking if the money could be transferred to her bank instead? The whole conversation was about 10mins back and forth trying to say I’m not transferring it I’ll just pay for it. Eventually she refused to take the taxi if I didn’t transfer the money.
I know it’s an obvious scam now (might be wrong tbh but very confident) just wondering if anyone else has seen this because I’ve been in Milton Keynes for years and never seen this.
killah10killah@reddit
That is definitely a scam. I’ve had something similar-ish in the past – I got into my car at the Point car park and a lady came up to my window and told me that she needed £20 to get the X5 bus to somewhere. I politely but firmly told her that I would never give £20 to a stranger under any circumstance. It was only when I got home that I considered that the X5 almost certainly does not cost that much for one trip (I could be wrong on that, mind you).
Rule of thumb is, if somebody asks you for money to buy an item or service, and you propose to just buy the item/service for them, and they insist that they’d rather have the cash, you are being scammed.
RadicalDog@reddit
Someone asked me to buy a small milk for them. And, okay, sure, so I did.
They said thank you and drank their milk right there.
Sometimes it's nice to help.
killah10killah@reddit
Kurt Angle would be proud
Consistent-Art1467@reddit (OP)
Yeah that’s ridiculous, I was wondering if anyone else knew about this because it’s the first time I’ve seen this and I was kind of shocked by the audacity? Why on earth would I ever transfer money directly into your account?
FinchMandala@reddit
First time I've heard someone on a mobility scooter doing it but asking for change outside the station is as old as when cart and horses were the optimal mode of transport.
Andrewj_01@reddit
the X5 costs £3 max, government cap on bus fair.
marbmusiclove@reddit
Don’t live in MK anymore but so glad this applies to the stagecoaches too. I remember when I was a teenager and it used to cost me basically a tenner to/from Bicester
Andrewj_01@reddit
yeah, I went from MK to Oxford on it last yeah. £3 each way.
Sleezy-Slowpoke@reddit
Yes - a lot of scams happen around train stations especially because they hope to take advantage of people who aren’t native to the area and privy to the set up.
Consistent-Art1467@reddit (OP)
Wow that’s crazy, I know people beg for money at the station but I don’t think you have to be local to MK to realise you should never just transfer money into someone’s account like that. Smh
Desperate-Letter2395@reddit
BTP would be interested. Plenty of police operations around the train station.