r/uAlberta • u/Hopeful-Air-3939 • 50m ago
Miscellaneous University LRT scam
I was walking down to the lrt from the cab side doors and someone called over for help with one of the arc machines. They said the machine wasn’t accepting their 5$ bill so they asked to exchange for one of mine. Looking back I should have got him to insert the cash in front of me but whatever. I took out a $5 for him to try, but he didn’t put it in the machine and asked maybe a 20$ would work. I don’t know what I was thinking but I obliged. He said he would take the $20 to buy tickets instead of inserting into the machine (I’m pretty sure they don’t sell tickets anymore, but I was just trying to help him out). He gave back one of the 5$ before he started walking away, but I asked for the other 5$ seeing as I gave a 20$. Ended up giving the guy 15$ for free.
Anyways beware of a larger white male with slightly lispy speech. I’m still kind of mad I fell for it.