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- #41
Scammers indeed! Here in California it has been a way of life for far too many for years.
Way back in the 80's, there was a well know radio station host who did an expose on it.
Someone from his station dressed in dirty shabby clothes and stood on a busy freeway off ramp with a cardboard sign, not far from another beggar.
Hours later someone else from the same station followed this person who got into a newer Mercedes-Benz parked less than a mile away and drove off, to an upscale community in Huntington Beach and parked in the driveway of a home there.
The person from the radio station summoned a camera crew, who knocked on the door, and the person answered.
When they confronted him, of course he slammed the door shut.
Weeks later it was in the newspaper that this person was part of a network of scammers that were on average getting thousands of dollars from people who thought they were "helping the less fortunate".
Whenever anyone approaches me begging for money, I give them directions to the nearest local shelter and tell them to get lost.
