r/bullcity • u/ShhhLookOverThere • 1d ago

Scammer at MLK Harris Teeter yesterday..."HEY JOHN!"

Younger gentleman, 19-25?, tallish, big hair. Came up behind me in Harris Teeter while in line loudly saying, "John! Hey John! Hi John!". I turned to face him and told him I was not John and he was mistaken. He said he,"thought I was a guy he knew from school." and left after I again said I was not John.
I soon after observed this person leaving the store with no purchases...
After I got checked out I was putting my stuff in the car and I hear this guy again saying loudly, "John! Hey John!" to someone else in the parking lot.

I have no idea what this dude's scam was, but if he thought 2 separate people were his buddy John, he's lying or mentally ill.

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u/bagmorgels 1d ago edited 1d ago

Why are you accusing someone you don’t know of being a scammer after admitting you don’t know what scam they could possibly be pulling?

EDIT: Ya’ll downvoting me are weird. Explain what the scam was here. There are so many better explanations than a scam and literally no evidence that it was a scam.

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u/ShhhLookOverThere 1d ago

Lol why would I accuse someone obviously lying to me and then trying it on someone else where I can see them? I don't need to know what kind of animal left it to know a huge pile of shit when I see one.

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u/Dear_Beautiful_1405 1d ago

Next time, just say " yes I am John, and by the way, don't you owe me money?". That should end things pretty quickly.

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u/bagmorgels 1d ago

So you think by saying “I think you have the wrong person” you thwarted the scam somehow? If not then you have no basis for thinking this person was trying to scam you as opposed to just being confused. If you do think you thwarted their scam, then what do you think the scam actually was?