QUOTE(BrianWeeBengSwee CON @ Jul 4 2018, 08:00 PM)
All sorts of reasons can be used. How he works is he befriends you and gain your trust as a friend, and in normal circumstances where you don't really question a friend, he will use that to manipulate.
1. Brother / father / mother medical emergency and difficulty raising funds on short notice. He is very reluctant to ask for help, reverse psychology you as friend will offer help, any way you don't believe he has any difficulty paying back.
2. He makes a big deal of planning trips, going the extra mile to help, and appearing to have gotten presents / gifts, so his friends return the favor in advance. However the things he promise do not materialize.
3. In one case, he befriended a family at church and took one year to become close enough to be called a family friend. Often visit their home, invited to join their family events etcetc. At the end they discovered he burglarized the house stole spare cash and foreign currency they kept at home, also stole debit cards and credit cards. He had peek the atm pin without the victim noticing, who had let their guard down around a close friend.
4. For the job scams, felt indebted to his help.
ahh...i see
well i have a colleague that tried borrow from me 5k
but considering i jst get to know him 2wks..i told him i can only borrow like RM200..which he declined as the amounts too small to help
till today (been 2 yrs liao), still chat with me once a while tho
so maybe that's a genuine case
on #03, damn if me i think kena liao..after X amount of time..usually i will start trusting that fella d if behavior, attitude and etc is OK.
speaking of which...my fren still owe me rm20k since 2016.. ohwaii