My brother and i drove around the area of Bern and saw a guy on the roadside trying to flag us down for help. We stopped thinking his car had broken down. He started to tell us a story about how he’s from bellarussia and is almost out of gas and needs swiss money to pay for it and food for his family, who is with him in th car. He only had money from his country and would give us the same amount in exchange.
I have him 150 in exchange for 1000 of whatever this is. I knew it wouldnt be as much as he claimed it to be, and wrote it off as doing a good deed. But once at the exchange office they told me this money has been put of service since 2016 and completely worthless since 2022. I didnt expect it to be worthless.
Anyhow, Just be warned for this scam!! And dont be as gullable as I was… Also dont open your window all the way down for strangers! Lessons learned.
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Posted by Madamschie
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If you get scammed by people from Belarus, then at least get scammed by pretty women from Belarus.
applying a bit of common sense helps sometimes..
They can just go to a bank and exchange if their story would be legit
The exact same scam happened to me near Geneva last week! Luckily I didn’t have my wallet, they were very convincing
They tried it with me once around a small town in Luzern. I had a bad feeling of it all, like something telling me to not accept the money. I just said I had no money with me whatsoever and left. Sorry for your shitty situation 🤷♀️
Write down the plate number, call the police when the truth is revealed
Thanks for sharing! Nevermind the people telling you that you were gullible. this kind of thing really can happen to a lot of people and even to those who believe themselves to be very smart or cunning. The most important part is that both you and the people you are informing about this learn to recognize this kind of scam.
Everyone from belarus or ruzzia asking for help are just scammers. Got i the same situation in Zug
I mean. I use common sense. A guy in geneva needed money for a train ticket, 10 chf. We were like 30 minutes by foot from the train station, my common sense told me he would be at the station to ask the money if he really needed them
You gave him 150 ???? Swiss Franks???????
Dude you need some help, I can sell it to you, its an easy guide,.. for 150 money, I swear!
thanks for the heads up. There’s a cool czech youtuber talking about that scam in Prague ([maybe even one of them scammed you](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ-mZCRPP-w)) Too bad we’re getting those people here now too
As someone that has given money to strangers multiple times, don’t give (or trade) more than you are willing to lose in such situations and you are going to be fine.
U got robbed
Did the Prague-based money scammers move to Switzerland?
“Use common sense” people in the comments pretending they never got scammed lmao. Victim blaming as usual. OP is not at fault for wanting to help, the scammer is trash and deserves to be ridiculed.
A similar thing happened to me in Luzern. I was walking on a sidewalk. A car slowed down next to me and the guy narrated a similar story and appeared to be offering to sell his ring in exchange of some cash. I found the whole thing to be extremely weird. I just told him I don’t carry any cash and kept walking. He followed for a few meters yelling something out of the window but I ignored and he drove off. I don’t remember where the license plate was from but I definitely wasn’t Swiss. It happened around a week ago.