Thief and Money: Smooth criminal

Smooth criminal

By omgfmlhard - 11/05/2009 23:14 - United States

Today, I walked into Best Buy to buy a 42" widescreen TV I'd been saving up for many months. As I walked in, a man stopped me and handed me my wallet that I'd accidentally dropped. I thanked him. Five minutes later at the checkout, I opened up my wallet to realize it was empty. He had stolen everything. FML

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By whyymee - 05/03/2010 07:50 - United States

Today, I helped a "blind" man across the street. He kindly said thank you and patted me on the back. Then, I went into a store and realized my wallet was missing. FML

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By Recon - 17/03/2009 12:16 - Switzerland

Today, I had gone to the store and bought a new wallet. 5 minutes later a security guard asks for my receipt. Turns out I had dropped my receipt. Some guy had picked it up and pretended I had stole his wallet. The guard confiscated my wallet because the guy had "his" receipt to prove it. FML

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Minus one Karma

By Frasier - 10/08/2024 16:00 - United States - Portland

Today, I lost my wallet while out shopping. Panicked, I retraced my steps and found it at a store, turned in by an employee. Grateful, I opened it to find a note that read, "We left the money but took one dollar for karma." I checked. They did actually take one dollar. FML

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By clip_kate - 01/07/2016 02:36

Today, I went to the store, but after I'd selected my items, I saw that I'd forgotten my wallet. When I tried to explain to the cashier, he thought that I was trying to steal and called the cops. My roommate had to come to the store to save me. FML

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By life_suxxx - 06/12/2009 07:43 - United States

Today, I went to the store to buy some groceries. Several hours later I realize that I can't find my wallet. After looking all over my house and then the store parking lot, I had my credit cards cancelled. On the drive home, I feel something under me. It was my wallet. FML

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The cat's out of the bag

By Anonymous - 26/03/2024 14:00 - United States - Milwaukee

Today, I was shopping with my husband. At the self-checkout, one of the items I was buying for him as a gift didn’t register. As we were walking out, I get stopped and escorted to the loss prevention office, where I was accused of stealing. FML

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By whaaaaat111 - 09/03/2013 12:04 - United States - Vienna

Today, while at the mall, a lady dropped her credit card while in line to buy something. I came over, picked it up and gave it to her just for her to shove it in my hand and scream, "She's stealing my wallet! My wallet!" The police came. FML

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Stars of CCTV

By lobotomized - 13/07/2009 03:15 - United States

Today, a couple came into the gas station where I work to ask for directions. While I was giving the woman directions (and even writing them down to be as helpful as possible), the man stole my wallet out of my purse that was sitting on the other end of the counter behind a display. FML

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By Anonymous - 16/05/2013 04:39 - United States - Cleveland

Today, at the supermarket, a man collapsed. I gave CPR while the cashier called for help. During this, the other patrons were complaining that no other register was open. Once the ambulance arrived, I returned to my cart to find items removed and 40 dollars taken from my purse. FML

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Smooth criminal

By Anonymous - 28/04/2012 01:55 - United States - Darien

Today, I was walking down the street, when a little old lady bumped into me and fell over. I helped her up and she thanked me for being "such a nice young man". It was only an hour later as I was in line at the store that I realized she'd pickpocketed my wallet. FML

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jakkal 0

Tuesday 12 May 2009 9:47

So after losing your wallet you waited until you were at the cashier to check if all your cash was still there??

vxjazz 0

Tuesday 12 May 2009 9:43

Uh... do you mean you were carrying all that money in cash? If it was a card then it wouldn't matter, he couldn't use it...

Comments

Lisasimpsonfan 0

Tuesday 12 May 2009 18:39

sorry you had to learn such an expensive lesson that you should never carry that much cash on you. Debit cards are the way to go.

that_guy01 0

Tuesday 12 May 2009 18:58

As a general rule never carry more than about 100 bucks on you in cash (unless 100 bucks is a lot to you, then even less). Debit card or a check (just remember the check # so you'll know if it's used if stolen). Sucks you had to learn the hard way. I'll also have to add that guy has the biggest balls of all of us to clean out your wallet and hand it back to you. If it wasn't so ****** up i'd say props, but yea. Wow.

ZuraLasgeon 0

Tuesday 12 May 2009 19:11

That's why you check it when they hand it back to you....

kellster 2

Tuesday 12 May 2009 19:45

How did you accidentally drop your wallet? Were you carrying it in your hand? A loose pocket? That just seems strangely careles to me. I can safely say that I've never dropped my wallet ever before, unless it slipped from my hand and I grabbed it within the next two seconds. You would think that you would be more careful, especially on your way to making a major purchase.

FBIWarning 0

Tuesday 12 May 2009 20:16

YDI for not checking your wallet when he gave it back.

baffles 0

Tuesday 12 May 2009 20:30

#19: You can call your bank to have them lift your spending limit for a day. It's just there to protect you in case somebody steals your card. Anyway, debit/credit cards have fraud protection. Even if your card was stolen and your account drained (or credit maxed out), you're only liable for $50 on a debit card or $0 on a credit card (provided you alert them as soon as possible after losing the card - if they can prove that you delayed in alerting them and in the time you delayed they could have prevented the damage, you start to be liable partially).

birds_fml 7

Tuesday 12 May 2009 20:46

YDI. Who carries that much cash?

FoundManyLemons 0

Tuesday 12 May 2009 21:25

At least you could call the banks/CC companies and freeze/cancel your cards. Because you weren't carrying cash enough to buy more than your lunch, right? I mean, that would still suck, but it would also be really dumb or your part. FYL anyway.

hanszy 0

Tuesday 12 May 2009 21:30

2 rules: keep as few valuables as possible on you, and always carry a knife.

mattmag 0

Tuesday 12 May 2009 21:30

#60, it's called an ATM. You can deposit cash and checks on Sunday, during the night, etc. #33, true, but if you have bad credit YDI anyway. With a debit card, you call the bank to cancel, and they reverse any fraudulent charges. This just happened to my friend a couple of months ago. The bank takes the loss, and this is why banks are always warning you about potential fraud. They stand to lose by it.