Family warns of couple using fake jewelry to steal money | FOX 13 Seattle
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- Опубликовано: 20 июл 2022
- A family is warning the public about a scam that is hitting three counties in Western Washington.
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At what point do you admit people are just stupid?
You can't fix stoopid.
i lost my 60$ to these goons. in Coral Gables, Miami
Did she want to help or did she want to double her money? Is that compassion or greed?
I feel that this is something you just need to be careful of it’s not greed. But spending all meant for your kids education on this is not worth anything the reason that these are often just not even a bother is that. They’re obviously scamming you the signs were there the aggressive shoving of jewelry how the gold looks like it was quality painted and reflects to where you can notice surfaces is a big red flag. But none the less it’s something you learn from for me they got her with the false promise of a rich family this can also take the form of a family, who’s on the road begging if you do actually bother. They will use this same tatic and they’re just running form city to city state to state and removing traces like having a throw away phone if they make the bank they just dip it they prey on your kindness and then run.
Greed
It wasn’t a scam, it was greed that made them lose their money. Don’t forget that. If you aren’t a jeweler why on earth wouldn’t you get them looked at first?
deadbeat bums
I'm pretty sure my 70 year old mother would be able to tell this was a scam from the start. I feel bad for them but I also find it ridiculously funny at the same time.
Lol I was just thinking the same how can’t nobody know it’s fake?!
@@polored1007 what im wondering is this scam started years ago why are people buying it?
@@tinvo9376 We still get hi-end audio systems from back of a truck scams. Clearly these old scams are still working in order to keep using them. Lol😅
@@polored1007 All it takes is a vulnerable person to want to help the need. That’s who they’re targeting.
greed is never a good thing
If there are pawn shops and they are trying to sell you jewelry, it's a scam
Never trust a sleazy person who approaches you at a gas station or on the street with a stranded traveler story
It’s always a scam
The same 'Arabian' looking scammers approached me twice here in Spokane showing the same gold jewelry. They were on the news here, and I called them out as scammers. They drove away quite quickly.
Same with me in federal way on two diff occasions, and I called them out they drove away fast
Tacoma too
that scammer didn't look "arabinan" at all, does he even have a middle eastern accent?
they are Roma gypsies.
Gypsies
There’s a sucker born every minute - PT Barnum
What’s crazy is that the buyer “lender” seems to have bad intentions too when they feel they got a good deal
I was thinking that as well. They were trying to get over and got robbed. The scam works on the greedy and desperatel.
I’m sorry but how STUPID do you have to do to give money to someone? You can’t blame anyone but YOURSELF .
That’s what I’m saying
She's a woman with a good heart... probably this is the first time someone has taken advantage of her... Maybe this is the first time she deals with a dishonest person.
Being a kind and selfless person/civilian can unfortunately come at a cost. If it wasn’t for people exploiting these compassionate folks/families then being blamed for being a good person is not stupid. What cost/selflessness have you given to your communities?
It wasn't stupid, she was only doing the right thing by stopping the scammers. Trust me, I was in that position, now I learned how not to trust people like them. I can't stand people who are being taken advantage of and lied to 😡😡🤬
Exactly
This happened to my husband, it was a couple pulled over on the side of the road asking for money for gas. My husband offered to get them gas several times yet they refused it. They offered him jewelry in which he declined over and over again. They demanded money vs what they said they needed.
Same here ..one guy was on the side of the road just getting on 18..
He said I got a 24 carrot gold ring..
Lol.. If that wasn't a dead giveaway
The other time in front of my house in Tacoma...
I offered them 5 bucks
SPEAKING OF GAS MONEY ... 3
PEOPLE ASKED ME FOR $5 TO
BUY GAS . ( 3 SEPARATE TIMES )
ALL 3 WERE MEXICAN .
COINCIDENCE ? I THINK NOT .
I SAID NO TO ALL 3 . OLE !
@@jackschmack5185 shoulda called immigration immediately 🤣😂
@@Buzz420 Why? Biden won't deport anyone.
@@jackschmack5185
😂
Sad story but hopefully a lesson for others. It is great to try to help someone, but if you are not in a financial position so help without putting yourself at risk, don't give money. And if someone offers you something for trade or collateral for money, tell them no. If the stuff they are offering is actually worth something, they can pawn it or sell it for money.
They have been doing this for a while just like the ones that are asking for money all around the Seattle area
😂🤣😂🤣 they weren't trying to help they thought they scored and were tryingto take advantage. That's what you get when you buy jewelry in a parking lot.
Ikr! 😂
Should have gone to Pawnshop before bank. Then they would have bolted away.
It sounded more like the lady "victim" was more looking for gains. Most people wouldn't go through all that trouble of traveling to different atms just to help total strangers out. Gullible and opportunist.
She a woman
The money she saved for three years, for her kids education. She pulled out the bank quick as hell for some jewelry.
3 years to save $2k???
Right lmao you caught that too
If someone needs money, ask to keep their ID and see if they'll still be interested.
Fake id's are still a thing
@@Buzz420 yeah but much less likely and a good fake one isn't cheap enough for them to just hand it. In the worst case you'll atleast have their picture and proof they usef fake id which is illegal.
@@alexm566 by the time the cops figure out who they are, they'd be long gone. Keeping someone's ID isn't going to do much.
@@Buzz420 you're underestimating the power of sharing their pics on local social media.
@@alexm566 I have probably been in trouble when I was younger more than a lot of people. They don't care & it's not hard to disappear quickly. If they leave state, it's even harder to catch them because of jurisdiction & the intensity of the crime, which was what? A grand? Nobody is going on a bounty hunt for a $1k crime. Hell, probably not even a $5k crime. It's low-med priority.
Sounds to me like the people being interviewed were trying to make money too. Also why would you give all that money if it’s all you have?
EXACTLY
agree 💯
Those lying phillipino's have money, you wouldn't be able to take 1k out of atm if you dont have a bank roll sorry !
Thank you. It felt like they believed they could triple their money.
@@dcarr2506 Maybe you're right however if a person in such situation is thinking about making money, I'd think that such person is knowledgeable about jewelry and can tell that it's authentic.
Then again why are people still soo dumb to fall for this scam.
Shit after all that, you might as well put all of them chains and rings on at once, and wear them every day. I’ll be walking around my neighborhood looking like an Egyptian god. 😂
With a green neck!
Not a complete loss
The kids did educated on something
Even herself did get a little!!,🔴🤫🫢sad!!,
Same thing happened to me in bellevue factoria mall parking lot, also said they are from Saudi. The same hold my jewelry for exchange for $500, i knew right the way the jewelry was not real, cus i grew up seeing a lot of fake jewelry. But they had a child at the back seat and they said the kid is hungry. I end up giving them a $20 tell them to get the child some food. I instantly regretted, when they drove away they gave me that look like i was the ass hole lol
they are NOT Arabian
but are spanish -- look at the photos
No good deed goes unpunished today.
Never trust street sellers period.
What fools would fall for this??
I don’t feel bad for stupid people. It would be more safe to give a homeless person a dollar then to buy $100 gold plated chain.
Is not being dumb. Some people are very nice people, and they have no ideas that kind of tactics scammer. The outcome is that those are nice people who will gonna lose their humanity because of that event
She saved that money for 3 years for her childrens education! LESSON LEARNED... priceless
There are many grifters out there. Family with kids and a big sign trying to win over your money
Wow! I'd feel bad but how do you even fall for that?
Exactly, especially if that's all the money in your account. C'mon G 😂😂😂
So you give a stranger your life savings and you want people to feel sorry for you 😅
They are doing the gold scam here in Tucson now too. A guy offered me a handful of gold ( a gold chain and ring) in exchange for gas money.I told him I only work 3 days a week and cant help.
It happened to me a few months ago when I did not know about this scam, but luckily I did not fall for it. I was at a ramp merging onto a freeway when I saw a car with flashing emergency lights on. I stopped by to see if they needed help. The man approached my car and immediately offered me gold chains for cash because "he lost his wallet" and has no money to buy gas to get home. Honestly I was about to give him $200 but then decided not to because I have no use for gold chains.
no use for gold chains? lol u are really not that smart.
I'm sorry, but if you fall for this, you aren't smart enough to have money.
Greed is the essential element needed for a successful scam. You can never be scammed if one does not participate.
This same Romanian couple drove up to me at a gas station in front of a Walmart in Española, NM, in Feb. ‘24. They are working all over the southwest.
Serves these victims right for being so damn greedy. You know their intentions are not to help strangers but to help themselves and got fooled by fools gold. Don't buy things you don't know anything about especially if you have intention of making money off it.
I've met with this guy driving around looking for the victim at the Fred Meyer parking lot in Bremerton
He is a middle east guy company with a female and a kid in the back seat, asking me if I want to buy his gold watch.
Be careful people don't buy any gold or jewelry unless at their store.
kids got an education on scammers
Lesson in greed. As an Asian, gold is a trigger.
They got me toooooooo😔
It’s even stamped
we lost our money i started laughing
How long has this con been brought to the public's attention by the Media? Four, five years?
Media does not care. They are just doing this to fulfill their quota
Lmao if they where desperate for money wouldn’t you think they would go to the pawn shop instead of you walking out of Walmart 😂😂🤣
They say they don’t have ID to pawn it at a pawnshop. If they come up on me, I’m taking their shit and leaving with it. I’ll tell them to go back to Baghdad 😂
I was lucky enough to have read a post about this scam a week before this man and his kid attempted to scam me. I was about to enter this gas station when a man called out to me. The man says he needs money for gas to drive back home because they were on a trip but didn't have enough to get back. Also pointing out this man is in his car asking me with his car running, even not stepping out to ask me. I was hesitant at first to say no just to help possibly, but the moment he pulled out a gold chain, I didn't believe him anymore and then proceeded to say no. The kid started saying in a sad voice, "Please help us," repeatedly, but I walked away saying I can't help you.
Aside from the usual the red flags are obvious and don’t hand strangers money, don’t be greedy. I’m sure part of the reason people fall for the scam it greed as in the scammer promise to pay you more back. They basically use both compassion and greed against you which is why some people who aren’t aware of these type of scam fall for it.
Also I do think scams like this should be taught in school but it’s not which is why some people particulary young naive people can fall for scams like these.
I didn't know about this scam until it happened to me in Texas last week. I was out walking getting some exercise and this guy in a car pulls up to me. He hands me a gold ring that had 24k stamped on the inside and says can you help me out with some gas money? My dumbass thought it was real but I was thinking I'd feel real bad about taking this guy's ring, I thought it could be a family heirloom or something. I hand it back to him and said no sorry man I can't, I would feel really bad about only giving you $100 bucks for a solid gold ring thats probably a family heirloom, then I ask him why don't you go to a pawn shop and sell it there, they'd give you a lot more money than what I'd give you? He says he has no ID, then I asked him how are you out driving a car with no ID? He's says sorry my English is bad like he didn't understand the question. I'm thinking hes out here driving around with no license. He takes off his figaro chain and hands it to me and asks if I can help him out with some money. It had 14k stamped on it and I was now wondering if it was real. He said it was real and swore to Allah it was. Now I'm thinking hard and was curious so I caved and said OK but I can only help you out with $20. He says OK I give him a $20 and he give me the figaro but as he's giving me the figaro he claimes it's a $2000 figaro and wanted $60, I said sorry man I can only do 20 for a chain I don't know is real or fake. He says OK no problem and drives off.
"awww I feel bad for taking your jewelry for $20"
"Plz buy it from me"
"Okay, but I'm going to actually need 3x what you originally asked for".
🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦
Did it turn out to be fake? I'm hoping it was real.
Don't talk to strangers.
And that's how you got scammed 😢 ....
I am shocked to know anyone would still fall for this.
Seen this scam in person. They always have their “family” with children with them and they almost throw their jewelry at you. I gave the guy $20, didn’t accept his jewelry, and told him that’s all the cash I had and he actually asked me to go into the gas station we were at and get more money from the atm. At that point I knew it was a scam. He was middle eastern as well. I saw him there again a couple weeks later and warned the people talking to him. They were kind enough to give him some money anyhow.
I had this happen to me a couple of times, where people came up to me & ask me to buy some jewelry & I told them no I'm not interested.
If you give people money like that you deserve what you get how stupid can somebody be I mean come on wake up
Happened to me too some turkish family starving hungry stole 3k
they are Roma gypsies. not Turkish.
This has been a scam for years. It’s been all over Facebook for as long as I can remember. They used to wait in Fred Meyer parking lots looking for a mark
Similar scam was pitched to me in Prague. Guy said he was from Germany and lost his wallet just needed a couple hundred euros to get back home and would send me the best liquor when he gets back home. 💤 😴
If it's too good to be true it's not true😂😂😂
These kind of scammers are everywhere now. Do not give money to people with tables in front of the grocery store. They are ALL scams.
I told some to piss off at gas station once in Georgia on my way up north. Hahahaha
I read articles about same situation from another country’s news page and they said that these people use hypnosis to trick others to give in, so that’s probably what happened here. No one is that gullible to get tricked by a stranger. I hope this nice lady gets her money back.
Hypnosis 😅😅
Ironically, you're super gullible if you think you can be hypnotized into doing something like this. This isn't a movie, bruh.
@@sneksteppy do you know how hypnosis works though? It’s a real thing, it was even used in earlier psychiatric medicine.
Anyone stupid enough to buy “real” jewelry off some shady street vendor deserves the lesson learned. It is sad how so many kind hearted folks are shafted by cheap crooks, but c’mon, an adult should be smarter than that.
This usually happens to the greedy people.
She wanted to double/triple her money and to have as much gold as possible, at the end she got scammed of all her money from the account probably
It's not sad. Come on, people. The ones who buy it thought they could come up on someone else's supposedly misfortune but instead got played for their money. Admit it, they got out hustled . You can't tell me they drove to two ATM's to get money to genuinely help those people. LOL😅
They should of told the people to go to a pawn shop but she thought she was getting g real gold. So she thought wow I'm going to make alot of money. I hope they don't come back. Well they didn't and neither did the money.
greed is what will always sucker you in
Never trust anyone offering more later for less today.
It happened to me here in Lowell, MI. Luckily it was only a small amount.
Dummy 😂
The same family just got arrested in Arizona
I am still wondering what the scam was with this encounter I had. Was at a gas station, broad daylight, and this cute guy drives up wanting to sell me some perfume. I just laughed, told him I am NOT buying perfume at a gas station!! Drove off. But I am wondering… what the racket was? Maybe he was just selling things he shoplifted at the nearby shopping center?
anyone else thought she was going to say, " I saved all that money to send back to the philippines " lol Time to go get a job lol and another thing, if you were able to take 1k out of the ATM than you probably have money in the bank, dont lie!
Right?! 🤣
I hate to say it, but some of you people out there have it coming, that's what you get for being too nice. I've had people come up to me, claiming to be down on their luck with their kids. Begging me to give them money and I always told them to get lost. Aint nobody gonna play me for a sucker!
Gullible. Never trust total strangers.
Oldest con in the book 😂😂😭
Not news. This happened in Grays Harbor County last year. State trooper finally caught up to em and arrested them on fraud charges or something.
If you have real gold chains and need cash, why wouldnt you just go to a pawn shop...I mean, dont people ever consider this?
Can't really feel too bad for that.. like.... just ..... Nevermind...
And btw.. i literally had this happen to me in Tracy the other day.. they're all over the country now.. i was getting gas when a big ol Chevy nice truck pulled up, with a dude wearing a bunch of "gold" chains and rings.. (i had literally just finished watching videos of this the day before).. so as soon as he started saying he needed help i told him straight up, "nope, I'm broke".. then, them being the shameless crooks they are, he started trying to say his sob story and pointed at one of his rings, telling me he'll trade. At the point i got mad and told him, "u think I'm an idiot?, I'm not the one to be trying this sht on foo, if u have all these things your wearing and big ass truck you're driving, then u could put it to use and get a job, tf is wrong with u ppl thinking u could scam ppl, who already have nothing to begin with?".. he just looked at me with wide eyes, and drove off in a hurry, probly thinking i was gonna call the cops.. but na, if he woulda tried something else, i was just gonna snatch his chains and sock his ass.. I'm already going thru TOO MUCH BS, I've worked so much to have everything taken from me, and now losing everything due to this economy, i was literally trying to figure out how i was gonna turn my power back on at my apartment, so u could understand why i got so mad.. if he wouldn't have been so persistent i probly would've let it go, but that's really how they ALL are.. then they have the nerve to get mad if u tell them nicely that u can't help them.. like you're "supposed" to give them something, and how dare u tell them no.. they have no fkn shame.
Scams work on the victims greed.
everyone is greedy thats the problem buy low sell high. if somebody give you something that worth 10-20k for 1-2k thats not a good deal thats a scam.
Dont be greedy, never got scam
You think they stupid enough to sell you real gold for less than 1/2 of the prices they buy.
Exactly!
I believe they should show this on the news channel 4 channel 7:11 in New York because these are all showing different states. Meanwhile, people have to be aware of this scam is going on.
There was a scamming attempt on me by some Middle Eastern guy he claimed that he needed gas money. And tried to sell me some jewelry luckily for me my family is in the jewelry business so I knew the jewelry he showed me was a fake. So I quickly told him that’s not my f-king problem and he quickly drove away too bad I didn’t have the chance to take a picture of his license plate.
Bruh I think I saw the exact same dude here in rainierbeach giving me a fake jewelry saying he needed gas money
Wow who would have thought that so many pigeons live amongst us
A sucker is really born every minute
I know it was a bad thing but she thought she was going to make money I promise you that you don’t just give random people $2000 unless you think there’s something in it for you and like I said she took it straight to the pawnshop. Sorry it’s just the truth.
Very sad.
Here’s what happened they thought they were getting a great deal. That’s why they went straight to the pawnshop. They weren’t gonna wait two weeks.
That scam is ancient, a new one is where there'll be a couple people playing a violin through a portable speaker and begging with the typical sob story...and the music sounds great and they really look like they're playing..but its all just pre-recorded music being played through a speaker...LOL! The older people give them money hand over fist!
They lost the money that way
Because they won’t say it on camera or admit it they were too greedy thinking of making some profit
If you encounter this scam just offer to pawn the jewelry for them !!!! 😂😂😂
Happened to me in Orlando, Florida today lol
Family in SUV.
If it's real gold or silver it will be marked. With a gold or silver mark and KT count usually at the clasp point, on the necklace and inside the bands for the rings. Not to mention gold has a specific color to it that is hard to imitate without gold filled
Stamps are cheap. You can't trust that either.
I was scammed for 200$ and the chains bracelet ring are all marked 18k. They have gotten suffisticated at faking them
Tons of fake jewelry is marked and tons of real jewelry isn’t. Markings are not a sign it’s real. Magnets help if you need to test something quickly but the only way to truly know is an acid scratch test.
I'm from New Mexico and I have been approached twice by a family who were both from Saudi arabi and they said they lost wallet and had these gold chains and rings. Both cases I said no and one case was almost ran off road by guy after I left
Lmao, those assholes won't take no for an answer lol
OMG Soo dumb! If it was your life saving then why would you even pull a dumb stunt like that risking your money like that!!!
Why does this show up when the word gypsy is searched??🤔
swear I seen this lady wearing the same clothes in Scottsdale,az at a gas station while riding my motorcycle
Tell em go to the PAWN SHOP
You can not give and still be nice
If you getting something for something else it's not stealing 😂
Silly of you….!!!
Everyone is a scam artist…!!!
All these people that got scammed were trying to make money too. You gamble, you lose. 2000 into 5000 in 2-3 days??? 😊
Does anyone know the names of individuals that got scammed? Because I would really like to reach out to them and offer what I can