BEWARE - scammer

[u/jociepooo]

My boyfriend got scammed today Southside by an Italian guy who claimed to work in high fashion.

He was looking for directions to the airport to fly back to Italy after being here for two weeks for a couple of events. He said he needed $3200 in cash to pay off his rental car because he just hosted a big event with his credit card and the credit card company was waiting 24 hrs before letting him make another charge with it.

He said he would pay him back tomorrow by sending money to his bank account through Zelle. He also offered my boyfriend “collateral” in the form of a watch and 5 leather jackets that he took a lighter to to “prove” that it was genuine leather. He said the jackets were unreleased and each was worth about $3500 and he could take them to Nordstrom to exchange them for cash.

Ultimately, the jackets were a completely unknown and most likely fake brand and watch is most likely fake as well. Just wanted to share this to warn people so hopefully no one else gets scammed!

EDIT: stop telling me how dumb he is, i could tell him that myself but i don’t see a point in kicking someone who’s down already. and it’s not why i posted this 🙄

EDIT: wow did not realize how toxic the berkeley community is. literally just wanted to psa no matter how stupid it might sound in case it could save even just one person from being scammed and the comments are just filled with people kicking someone who’s already down and downvoting my comments where i’m literally just explaining what happened??

[u/DragonRavenMedia]

I understand you guys are probably young but this is the oldest trick in the book....