‘A creep in a puffer jacket’: How a confidence trickster is scamming men in Dublin city
While walking through Dublin city, journalist Quentin Fottrell was scammed.
A pleasant sounding, nicely dressed man stopped him and started chatting. Didn’t Quentin remember him? After all, the man said, he had worked on his house some years ago. Not wanting to be rude and a little embarrassed at forgetting a face, Quentin continued the chat which slowly turned to the fact that the man had forgotten his wallet and needed some help to get home. It was only when he had walked away, €40 lighter, that Quentin realised he had been scammed.
He wrote about the experience in The Irish Times and his…
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