Fw: [UC] Re: Scams In General - Welcome to my crisis

[Joe Clarke]

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From: "Joe Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "William H. Magill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: [UC] Re: Scams In General - Welcome to my crisis


> Two indicators that I use, and I've learned them from repeated
experiences,
> are 1: if I am approached suddenly in a gas station or a parking lot.
People
> are more vulnerable in these places of transit because they are there a
> brief time, don't know anyone and they can't deny that they have money.
> And 2: the more elaborate the tale the less likely it is to be true.  I
> offered once to pay the tow company with a check in order to transport the
> broken down vehicle, etc...  I received the same response as Bill did to
his
> offer of a token.   Now that I think of it there is one more indicator and
> that is when the con-artist approaches you with "I'm not a bum; I'm a
> college professor (btw who says a college professor can't be a bum?)"  Or
> also the quick, "Yes my name is _ and my sister lives across the
street
> and I."...and he acts very familiar with you and the neighborhood.   I
find
> the faster the transaction the more likely it is a fake.
>  I've seen a man/woman team who would have their car broke down, with
> hood up and all on an exit ramp or on the side of a busy road.  The second
> time I saw them do this I drove by and watched the expressions on their
> faces as they tried to flag down the next unwitting soul to drive by.
> As a social worker, I've learned that crises are usually the result of
> other long standing difficulties that will not yield to an 11th hour quick
> fix.  It is a temptation to fly into crisis mode with a client, but it is
> usually ineffective and further supports the crisis-fix-crisis cycle.
>
> Joe C.
>


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Re: [UC] Re: Scams In General - Welcome to my crisis

[Wilma de Soto]

Love, Love, LOVE La Lupe!

Unfortunately for those of us who want to stick to our diets, they deliver
to the school where I work.  Chilaquiles, anyone?


On 1/2/05 1:06 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Tokens in certain parts of the city that is a scam, too. If memory
> serves I recall being at Taller Puertorrique~no when somebody came in
> asking for a token "to get home." Someone started digging and a staff
> member was very firm, "No, no tokens here."
> 
> When the hustler left we were informed that the tokens were sold at a
> discount to anyone with cash to support the hustler's habit of choice.
> 
> Last night I was sitting outside at La Lupe's -yes! al fresco on New
> Year's Day! bliss!- that's at 9th and Federal. This one fella marched up
> and down from Lupe's to Geno's asking the same folks over and over for a
> dollar. Then he was joined by a female companion who sounded like a
> hard-sell pro: do you have a dollar for the bus? no?? Despite the fact
> that she had no luck with it, he also tacked on the same spiel.
> 
> It was irritating but the pierna adobada and warm weather was worth it.
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Fw: [UC] Re: Scams In General - Welcome to my crisis

[maruca]

Tokens in certain parts of the city that is a scam, too. If memory
serves I recall being at Taller Puertorrique~no when somebody came in
asking for a token "to get home." Someone started digging and a staff
member was very firm, "No, no tokens here."

When the hustler left we were informed that the tokens were sold at a
discount to anyone with cash to support the hustler's habit of choice.

Last night I was sitting outside at La Lupe's -yes! al fresco on New
Year's Day! bliss!- that's at 9th and Federal. This one fella marched up
and down from Lupe's to Geno's asking the same folks over and over for a
dollar. Then he was joined by a female companion who sounded like a
hard-sell pro: do you have a dollar for the bus? no?? Despite the fact
that she had no luck with it, he also tacked on the same spiel.

It was irritating but the pierna adobada and warm weather was worth it.





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