SO listen up, this is how they scam you: They give you the clothing, and leave. In the meantime, they're keeping an eye on you. A few minutes later the guy returns and tells you that he made a mistake and gave you the wrong jacket / dress and askes for them back since they actually belong to an important client. When you give them back, they inspect the jacket / dress and point out that there's damage )a pre-existing rip or stain) and they demand that you take responsibility for damaging the clothing. They will argue and argue with you, saying that the jacket / dress costs like $5000 and that you ruined it. They ask you for the money to pay for it. After more argument, they tell you something like "Ok, it's my responsibility too, I will assume the cost of this. But at least give me part of the cost, say $500." And that's how they try to get you. If this happens to you, don't argue, or try to negotiate. Just tell them: No problem, I'll call the police and we'll wait here for them. We'll let the police settle this. If you do that, they will try to weasel their way out, ask you for at least $200 and if you don't budge and wait for the cops, they will take their garbage clothing and scram.
I thought it was a scam like stolen property from their fake company (anyone can have a business) then they'd report it to the cops and somehow got paid for the stolen jacket. They really are fucked up and basically if they give it to you, you gotta pee on it and call the cops whenever you receive the jacket
@@rodzandz yeah and the scam can actually get people two ways. One is people who believe the clothing is great, and the other is people who are simply too nice to say no. Pretty shameless either way.
@@FirstnameLastname-my7bz he has no degree and it will be hard for him to find a job without one. He obviously is qualified and deserves a job, just unfortunate that’s often how it is. Probably in a better position now than 10 years ago but still, difficult.
@@FirstnameLastname-my7bz well I'm not positive because I don't know him personally but I imagine if he had a degree in sales/business he wouldn't be scaming people like this. What is your point though?
Meanwhile they were mad expensive clothes the dude felt like giving away out of the kindness of his heart before heading back to his mansion in Rome to talk about the loss of trust in the world over spaghetti with his brother Luigi
You are a sensitive man. In real life we are daily scammed by our feeling of guilt. Real life is full of worst issues they are not upset, they are disappointed.
@@bobafett5838 He is definitely not Ukrainian or Russian, his accent is the wildest. I say this as a Russian. His face isn't Russian at all :) Even if a person lives in another country for a long time, his pronunciation does not change soooo much like this (if he was a Russian). In the comments above some people wrote that he is from Italy cause his accent is clearly Italian.
It's a pretty normal thing in Europe to be able to speak 3+ languages. I don't know if in America or in Brittain it is enough to get a decent job, but defintly not here
@@narthex1681 No, it is not at all. In Africa it's normal but in Europe if we know English and our country language, it's a LOT. To know more than that, you should be kind of a linguist or smth.
@@narthex1681 In defense of Americans/British I would say t's not "a pretty normal thing", Europeans are bilingual at most on average, if they happen to speak English to varying degrees, only some regions in Europe encompass multiple languages/dialects, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands/Luxembrug/Belgium area, Balkans, etc 3+ languages on average it's a crazy lie to shame Americans or Brits even further, and I'm a Catalan (European) myself, just saying. Also because 99% of Europeans who are bilingual or more than 2, are simply because these languages are all native to their land, like myself who spoke Spanish and Catalan natively since I was a toddler, and learn English and Portuguese on my own. Americans and Brits don't have any more native languages than English, which is the lingua franca of this century, unless they want to go abroad to live they literally have no incentive whatsoever to learn any other languages.
This exact same thing happened to me in Paris in 1996. In my case, the charming Italian guy gave me a leather Ferrari jacket, because of course, he was the head designer of Ferrari. Anyway, I accepted it because the jacket was actually really nice. He then gave me another one for my girlfriend -- all for "free." So I accepted after he assured me there were no "strings attached" and I gladly accepted. After that, he asked me if I could give him some gas money cause he had no cash, was out of gas, and of course -- late for his flight at Charles De Gaulle to Milano. When he realized that I literally had no cash on me except for a few francs, and I wasn't willing to give it to him, he took the jackets back and left. Basically, they guilt you into giving them cash for garbage products. For me, it's a lot of work for very little profit, but the truth is, there's a sucker born every minute...
english: - do you live in moscow? - no, i live in a small city - st. petersburg? - yes, st. petersburg this is a russian equivalent to the part in the video where the italian scammer asked him if he comes from odessa, tourist said no, he lives in a small city, the scammer then asked kharkov? And the tourist just said yes, yes, kharkov. The thing is that kharkov isn't a small city at all, it has over 1mio inhabitants and is the second largest city in whole of ukraine, so the scammer had no idea about the ukraine at all. just like st. petersburg, which is the second largest and very famous city in russia after moscow, not quite a "small city".
The "dress" is what threw you off and not the totally ridiculous excuse for a car ? A fashion director who drives a 45 km/h vehicle that doesnt even require a liscence. Yeah, right...
You would think that speaking French, Italian, Russian and Lord-knows how many other languages, that there are thousands of great-paying legitimate jobs that do not involve scamming. What a waste of top-tier language and interpersonal skills! Penny wise and £ foolish.
Found quite weird as well. The man has politician-like persona and is at least trilingual. He could work in an embassy or as an interpreter or some shit.
Hey! I met this same guy in october 2008, same name, Gaitano! haha. Very nice guy (even being a scammer). He said that he went to Paris during the fashion week but he lost his wallet, then he asked me for 50 eur to get some gas for his car (it wasn´t a smart in that moment, just a white sedan), and showed me that "suede" jackets as a gift for my help. Of course I laughed and kept walking, but it was a little funny moment, can´t believe some people buy their stories.
Yeah but mugging is a good honest trade , you know where you are with a mugger and what to expect, imagine people's disappointment when they get home and their designer jacker falls apart - that kind of experience sticks with you
Also they would never come to a stranger begging to people on the street for advertisements. If he really owned a store in Lafayette which I've been many times as my mother buys stuff there, it is extremely expensive and not for everyone, so if he had a store there he even wouldn't bother to go to strangers, there is advertisement and agents for this. Some people are so dumb that's crazy, but what should we be surprised after all ?
He seems like someone who has genuine sales talent, gifted in being very charismatic and is multilingual. Definitely could have been very successful if he didnt....you know, try to scam people for a living.
He probably was working in sales most of his life but for some reason no longer and I assume could not find another job so he was left no choic3 but to scam people using his professional talent
On the continent multilingualism is common. More people speak two languages than only one, and being conversational in 3+ isn't rare, especially in somewhere like Paris. It doesn't set you apart as having a unique skill like in the Anglosphere.
This guy is known for going around Paris asking to sniff everybody’s butts & farts as well. that’s why he got so mad at the end , he was gonna ask the guy to fart in his face but he wouldn’t even take his gift. His name is Cletcho Kova. Notorious.
@@echoecho5244 you mean when in fellowship of the ring frodo goes to rivendell and his uncle bilbo is there and whilst frodo is taking off his shirt to put on the mithril shirt his uncle gave him, bilbo sees the ring and goes a bit nuts over the ring?
These scams go two ways. You accept the "free" items at which point the scammer asks for some gas money as a gift since he was "nice" enough to give you some designer gear for free. As a decent human being, 9/10 they expect you to cough up. The second way is that there are accomplices of the scammer nearby who will accost you when the scammer drives off and either mug you or harass you until you give them the items or some money to leave you alone. Never accept stuff like this when it is offered freely, especially if you are a tourist. They are scammers and you can get in all kinds of trouble. Politely decline and have them move on. If they persist, remain polite and make up an excuse that you have to be somewhere and someone is expecting you. At this point you will be too much effort for them and they will move on to the next person.
If you logically think about it, giving a gift could be considered just as rude as not accepting one. Why is it rude to not accept a gift?: maybe you don’t value the gift which then translates into a lack of value for the person. Maybe it’s the emotional response of rejection that is being imposed upon the gift giver. I believe that either way you look at it the gift giver is putting the burden upon the one receiving the gift. How can you think you are burdened by receiving a gift? My response to that is why do you think the world must continue to operate in a manner that is consistent with materialism. At the end of the day is it really all about the plus or minus of things? I don’t believe so. With that in mind you could reasonably say that it is rude to try and give a gift to someone expecting them to have the same values as you ( this puts pressure on the one receiving and who are you to impose that upon them?) sadly we live in a world where hidden intention or personal gain is always present, aka this video ( even if it wasn’t obvious you can almost always assume that there is gain of value somewhere ). So why is it rude if the person receiving the gift rejects when the person who is presenting the gift is the one imposing the situation in the first place? (The person receiving the gift could say how dare you make me feel uncomfortable in this situation, that is rude.) I would think that in an ideal world a person would be logical enough to realize that they might not want it and that is okay, but sadly we live in a world of illogical people. I think at the end of the day if people in general stepped outside of their own interruptions of the world around them and realized it’s not about them then this world would be a better place.
@@mimikaka1039 I just figured out it's possible to love and hate someone you have never met. I clicked on this to make this exact same comment just to find it already here. With your name... Bravo. Take care like minded stranger
@Bam The Secularist plus also, hopefully that next person who ends up with the fake bill just scams another one of these random crooks back, like you did. And then when that new scammer scams another tourist with that fake bill, then that tourist scams back another different of these crooks as well. And so on and so on. The cycle continues.
It happened to me in 2015 in Berlin (I live there). Unluckily for the guy I am italian and knew the trick. It was really funny pretending to be a german tourist and having a friend calling the police meanwhile. Unfortunately I couldn't keep him for as long as they needed to arrive. I only manged to tell him "good things" about his mother, his grandmother and his sister in the end, but it was worth the while... Haven't seen them around for many years now.
Yesterday i got an email, saying that i have an unknown rich uncle in Dubai, and that for only 150 USD, i will receive 500 million USD from him. Oh what a bargain!
"You know what Toby? When the son of the deposed King of Nigeria e-mails you DIRECTLY asking you for help, you help!! His father ran the freakin' country... Okay??"
Something like this happened to me in Colombo, Sri Lanka. A well dressed retired airline pilot struck up a conversation with me on the street, soon wanted to mail my parents some tea from his plantation. The catch was that he wanted me to pay the postage in advance. Sri Lanka was chock full of scammers.
Well yeah if u in Colombo you’re gonna encounter scammers. Big cities = number of scammers. It’s common sense, not the country’s fault. Come to Kandy and tell me if u find any scammers
Happened to me in Paris as well. I'm French but I don't live in France so when I'm going to Paris I'm a tourist as well and they are quite good to spot it. Similar guy gave me 3 shirts like that. I knew it was a scam but I accepted the gift and right after I pretended to receive a phone call. I said thank you to the guy and left. He parked his car and ran after me asking for money. Told him to fuck off and went on my way with his shit gift.
LOL. shit scam then...they are basically giving away free shit...then asking for money after telling you to walk away with it free of charge. What mug would pay up? you'd either give it back or like yourself, tell them to Fuck off.
That's what I don't get. I hear about these scams all the time and wonder how the hell they could possibly work. Do the innocent people they get pulled on somehow have the inability to tell the scammer to go fuck themselves?
Found elsewhere, this is how they do it. We were in Rome last week. Had just left our B&B to walk to the Colosseum when a car pulled up next to us and the well-dressed driver asked if we spoke English (yes) then asked for directions to the Colosseum. Then he started telling us how he is a manger for Giorgio Armani in Florence, showed us a folder of the latest designs and asked where we were from (Australia). Then he started on about his wife being from Australia etc etc. Then he gave us 2 coats ("leather and silk") telling us they were worth heaps of money, but we weren't to sell them. Then ... he asked for some petrol money ... €100 or €150. Fortunately we were also on our way to a bank and didn't have much cash with us, but foolishly we just handed over about €40 and he drove off. We went back to our B&B to leave the coats. Of course they are made of polyester and are very ugly - we can't believe how gullible we were and feel quite foolish about the whole episode. So as a warning to others - just be aware that this is happening in Rome. We can laugh about it now and are treating it as a story to relate when we get home!
Sounds like being absolutely foolish. To take some shit from a suspiciously nice guy at the street and give him any money in return just because he told you a story about his fancy shop and said that his shit is very expensive and has a good quality. Heard a thousand of stories like that.
@@saurabhbhalla90 The thing is these guys are locals, so if you take their things without giving any money they'll harass you and call the cops on you. Because you don't speak the local language you'll have an extremely hard time explaining the situation. The only way to get them clean is by taking videos like these and being fluent enough to explain yourself in a local language.
LMAO, this could have totally become a comedy sketch like from Key and Peele where two scammers try to scam each other. Maybe next time, you bring along your 'suede' jacket and trade him and say we are doing each other good.
OMG!!! I just saw this SAME GUY this summer. He stopped in front of my hotel and started talking to me. He offered me THE SAME “suede jacket”. Anyways, I took it and said good bye... he didn’t get to scam me though because i was right in front of my hotel. 20 steps and I was inside the lobby... he probably tried to follow me but couldn’t find me... i still have the “gifts” haha
Although I see your point, I must also say that's a narrow vision... What does the car you are driving has to do with how much you make? Plus, that car is much better fit for a busy city than many others. As long as it works fine, I don't see the problem. It's not like he was driving an old beaten 1990s BMW.
@@zxth yes, but you may actually record that bc the guy may plea that you stole those, and since he is the owner and probably carry the receipt, you could get in trouble
They probably ask you to pay for the suit once they give it to you. I can tell he was trying to build your trust with those jokes about French people and his Italian brother that has a spaghetti restaurant. It's a lot like that string scam where they tie a string to you and then you pay to have it removed.
No they wont ask you to pay for the suit, they ask money for petrol, which makes more sense since they just gave you "free stuff" practically worth nothing just to build trust. So they ask for an amount of petrol money worth more than the actual stuff they gave you.
Imagine walking with a bag of jackets yourself and when these scammers pull up about to do their thing, you tell them you are a fashion director giving out jackets, that would be hilarious to see their reaction.
"I’m a fashion director and since I see you holding a camera in this tourist area i’ve got just enough spare time in my busy schedule to chitchat and try to stir interest in you to accept this free gift all because i love my fellow ukrainians and santa claus."
I presume they get someone to approach you and say that you stole them, then demand money so that they don’t call the police. As a foolproof rule, never allow anyone to hand you anything or put anything on your wrist. Just ignore them and keep walking.
*I have encountered “fashionistas” like this in America. There are from “clothing and perfume” industries. They say they were in a convention and they have high end stuff left over, very very expensive and they don’t want to take it back to Italy. So they are selling it for a couple of bucks to you out of kindness. They show you something that in fact is legit and expensive as bait and if you agree to buy they give you a bag with worthless rags. Any deal too good to be truth is because 99% of the time always is so apply common sense and you’ll be ok. Is easy to pass the high linguistic skills this dudes have to tangle you up if you stand your ground just like the guy in this video.*
Me and my friend had met this exact same guy along with same two jackets same clothes, just he was driving a green mini Cooper this time in Feb 2017 in Paris. Unbelievable!!
I'm amazed at how multi-lingual these scammers are. Once long ago I was sitting by myself in a train station in rural Finland in midwinter at about 4 am. I was the only passenger in the terminal. A dude walked in, sat next to me and started talking in Finnish. I gave him a shrug. He immediately switched to German. I shook my head. Then, in a polished Oxford accent, he asked me for money in English. I got up and moved away. He glowered at me for a while, then he left. Who thinks about panhandling at 4 am in freezing weather? And if he took time to learn 3 languages, why can't he get a good job and stop scamming?
Had one of these on the M6, Knutsford Services ten years ago, ended up buying a 'suede' jacket for £20, I still keep it and wear it occasionally to remind me not to be so stupid in the future!
It's not Armani and definately not suede, what we used to call 'suedette' back in the day. I deliberately parked some way away from the building to stretch my legs after driving up from Bath, that's why yer man zeroed in on me, he had all the spiel about having to catch a ferry back to Italy and he had to move the gear on to avoid paying 'import tax', even had a LHD car to complete the illusion. As I had just got out of my car, I couldn't clock the reg. plates. Walking to the building I thought to myself 'you've been 'ad mate!'. When I was getting back in my car having used the facilities another 'Italian' drove up and tried the same patter. My reply was a masterclass in finest West Country Industrial English!
lol, i was fooled by 4 welsh guys in Birmingham, they showed me 8 phones in a a bag sitting inside their car, and ask for just 100 pounds, i was suspicious BUT my frind want me to pay as the phones were worth 1000 pounds, i apid and quickly they grb the money and gve me bag and shoot off, when i open the bag....................
Im french and i met 3 times this type of scammer and they all start to say me : " Are you Italian ? " I think it's a scammer organization and not an isolated act
Man, I fell for this scam, haha. It happened to me in 2015 in Paris. I was studying abroad in Madrid, Spain, for a year, and my sister from the states came to visit me and we decided to meet up in London and then fly to Paris. We were walking down the street looking for a place to eat when suddenly a guy pulls up next to us in a car. We spoke to a guy in Spanish because I didn’t want to be identified as an American. He sounded Italian. Anyways, he tells us he’s some fashion director on his way back to the airport to go back to Italy and needs money for gas for his rental car. He said he’d give me a free leather jacket for whatever money I can spare. I think I gave him like £20-£50 because I didn’t have any euros on me. I was planning on keeping those pounds as a collection of foreign currencies I wanted to start. I legitimately fell for his scam and thought I simply got lucky to meet a fashion director. I’m usually very self-aware of scams but for some reason I didn’t think this was one. I ended up giving that leather jacket to my dad when my sister went back to the states and I went back to Madrid. It looked and smelled like good quality leather, but what do I know - I ain’t no fashion or counterfeit expert? It’s probably garbage for all I know. My dad liked the jacket, though, haha. After watching this video, I’m kicking myself in the butt for being so gullible and giving him so much money for probably a low-quality counterfeit leather jacket.
You learned a great life lesson and didn’t loose much in the process. You’re now able to share your experience with others in hopes they don’t fall victim. And have a great/funny story to tell.
Can clearly tell this guy isn't Italian after he talked about eating spaghetti and lasagna at a restaurant in Rome. No real Italian can be this stereotypical...
I've experienced something like that with my father at a gas station here in Germany. Scammer: "Sorry, may I ask you something? I'm Italian." My father: "Italian? Not my failure." / "Italiener? Kann ich auch nichts für." That was priceless, Clint Eastwood couldn't have had delivered this line cooler.
This scam works like this they give you a bag, tell you its free, and as soon as you accept the gift they will park a car near by, and come to you, and ask you for money, you try giving them the gift back, they won't take it, they will continually follow you until you either decide to given them money, or run like hell, or punch them in the face
I would just stab them and walk off. Men following me and acting intimidating is a threat to my safety, and I must act fast to defend myself, and acting fast is stabbing and running.
juankenon Pretty different situation, the average American lives probably like a thirty hour drive from an area where a different language is spoken. Just not as much motivation to spend the time and resources learning a skill they'll use for one two week vacation.
ClosestToTheSun That is not exactly true. The average American very often lives near an area where a different language is spoken as a first language even if that area is within the country. When I watch a crime show like The First 48 Hours for example, I am quite shocked at the number of policemen in Miami, Dallas (or other cities with areas where Spanish is the first languages) who don't even speak Spanish yet are supposed to solve murders committed in areas where most witnesses only speak Spanish. That, said British people also often only speak one language so it is not specific to American people but more to the fact that English speaking people rely on the fact that most foreign people have some kind of English. I am glad I am able to speak several languages myself not only because it is useful when traveling but also because when listening to the same news but from countries, you realise that each country has some kind of" tunnel vision" and a very biased and self centered view of the world.
juankenon i totally get your comment man! I myself am a lover of languages, and i am fluent in a couple. BUT...know this.....there is a good reason this occurs. Not only Americans are this way, but so are Brits, Aussies and Kiwis....its because our native language happens to be the dominant/business language for the world at the present time...thus creating no real need to learn other languages unless its for your own leisure or interests
Can you Imagine that this happened to me in Montreal, Canada? A fashion director wanted to "give me" his fashion clothes before his flight to Milan, for $1500. Their scam became a global international racket.
@siwuz84 The race is the same in the real word, in the head of the racist it's not. It's literally the definition of the word. So yes, an italian can be racist towards a french, if the italians believes he is of a better and different race.
Rule number one: Always assume its a scam when someone you don't know approaches you, until proven other wise. Rule number two: If something seems to good to be true... its almost always to good to be true. I have been scammed in the past and its an awful feeling of humiliation and anger. Although i went through it like that, its a lesson i will remember for the rest of my life.
yakikadafi - If a stranger approaches you for any reason and you are being pressured into accepting a gift or invitation - it’s a scam (or worse). The more uncomfortable you feel about simply saying “bye” and walking away, the more you know it’s a scam.
About 20 years ago my husband was stopped by a guy in a car just near our house,he told him about the leather jackets he had for a tradefair and offered him five jackets.My husband said he didn't want five jackets but the guy said he could have one for £20.He bought it and brought it in to show me,I was sure it was a scam but couldn't think how.Anyway the jacket was beautiful inside and out,he still has it and it is as good as new.
Yeah, when i was in Paris I'm also encountered by them, they tell me that their stuff is worth 1,000 euros but "i will sell this only 25 euros JUST FOR YOU, don't tell anyone that you can get this cheap because you are my best friend" (sure... "Best friend" because i meet him just 5 minutes ago)
Funny story. My Dad once redirected a genuine lost Italian sales representative to an airport he couldn't find. Guy didn't speak English, he did speak French. I got a real cashmere coat as a present out of that act of kindness. :)
@@ademiravdic This happened about 2006. GPs told you where you where, it didn't tell you how to read a map written in a foreign language. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone#Form_factor_and_operating_system_shifts In the UK, if you overshoot your turn on a main motorway, you cannot make a right hand turn and come back until the next junction roundabout. Driving on the "other" side of the road didn't help.
I experienced this twice, they tell you they have leftover clothes from the fashion week and will sell them to you for cheap before heading back to Italy.
”Hi im a complete stranger and wants to offer you free clothing because you are ukrainian and my wife is. ”Who is actually stupid enough to believe this crap
Not exactly the same thing, but when I was in Rome, there were these guys that would come up to my group because we were tourists and ask if we were from England. When we told them no, they would get confused and ask where we're from. When we said Wales they would be even more confused. Then they would insist on trying to give us bracelets that they would wrap around our hands under the guise of a gift, but would keep us talking, then try to get money from us, then when we wouldn't give any, they'd take the bracelets back. I also had something similar happen in Cardiff with a guy trying to give me a CD because he saw me wearing headphones (he thought I was listening to music and when asking what I was listening to and me saying I was listening to an audio drama, he described the CD he pushed into my hand as containing real drama, probably not even knowing what an audio drama is). He said it was free and then started asking for donations, which I wouldn't give him, so he took it back and walked off.
"You know what Toby? When the son of the deposed King of Nigeria e-mails you DIRECTLY asking you for help, you help!! His father ran the freakin' country... Okay??"
Here in Portugal they do the same thing but with fake replica perfumes. They say they are in town for a few days in some kind of fake perfume showroom and say they have only a few examples left for sale then they try to sell like two for the price of one and if you refuse they get real mad.
I never got approached by scammers in Paris. I’m German & lived there a few years. I still travel there quite often. My tip: Don’t dress like a tourist. Parisians would never leave the house dressed like going to a gym. Learn to have a non- interested look in your eyes. And as a girl in certain areas, don’t look young north african men in the eyes while walking on the streets. They sense unsecurity& may harass you verbally. But you know, Europe is quite pleasant . I made a cross country trip through Egypt recently. There you can’t walk 3 meters in peace. Especially in Cairo. 😡
i would love to see how the scam technique ends. imagine: you take the gift in your hand, and ask him 3-4 times "is this for me, for free?" after admitting. you take it, then run to the next trash can and throw it in, right before his eyes. would be priceless
I've seen another scam like that. Usually they build a sense of trust with the tourist and then ask for money (for oil for exemple). It seems like a good deal because you got a special 'designer' item that seems priceless for 40 euros. I found the other scam on youtube: ua-cam.com/video/_eo2smClH5U/v-deo.html
Never trust a guy that drives a washing machine as a car
never trust a guy that imedietly when meeting you wants to be your best friend, thay are scaming you 100%
@@Erik3E no one is that nice.
Fraud is theft with a smile.
a microwave*
He hates the french and drives a french car... genius
Never trust a guy that drives a car that doesn't need a driver's license
SO listen up, this is how they scam you: They give you the clothing, and leave. In the meantime, they're keeping an eye on you. A few minutes later the guy returns and tells you that he made a mistake and gave you the wrong jacket / dress and askes for them back since they actually belong to an important client. When you give them back, they inspect the jacket / dress and point out that there's damage )a pre-existing rip or stain) and they demand that you take responsibility for damaging the clothing. They will argue and argue with you, saying that the jacket / dress costs like $5000 and that you ruined it. They ask you for the money to pay for it. After more argument, they tell you something like "Ok, it's my responsibility too, I will assume the cost of this. But at least give me part of the cost, say $500." And that's how they try to get you. If this happens to you, don't argue, or try to negotiate. Just tell them: No problem, I'll call the police and we'll wait here for them. We'll let the police settle this. If you do that, they will try to weasel their way out, ask you for at least $200 and if you don't budge and wait for the cops, they will take their garbage clothing and scram.
what a cunning scam.
but hey by logic who in the right mind would give a free jacket out of nowhere ? that's a red flag for sure
@@beaconing7689 Gullible people are a dime a dozen.
I thought it was a scam like stolen property from their fake company (anyone can have a business) then they'd report it to the cops and somehow got paid for the stolen jacket.
They really are fucked up and basically if they give it to you, you gotta pee on it and call the cops whenever you receive the jacket
@@rodzandz yeah and the scam can actually get people two ways. One is people who believe the clothing is great, and the other is people who are simply too nice to say no. Pretty shameless either way.
Sounds similar to a law firm trying to get money from me this way for a copyright issue online.
When you reject his offer and all his enthusiasm leaves his face. Priceless.
What was the scam here ? I didn't understood anything besides giving jackets for free
He tries to look friendly and offer a gift and then asks for gas money because he dont have money or something like that
@@mikemm5920 you are right. He is just a nice man handing out free jackets. If you ever come across such person, accept their priceless gift.
@@Nostalgia_Addict You have absolutely no clue lol
Every scammer is like that, they are really friendly until you refuse their offer and then they look at you like you just wasted their precious time
If this man applied only 50% of his marketing skills on a legitimate job, he would have been filthy rich.
No degree though
@@DJ-sn2wn what
@@FirstnameLastname-my7bz he has no degree and it will be hard for him to find a job without one. He obviously is qualified and deserves a job, just unfortunate that’s often how it is. Probably in a better position now than 10 years ago but still, difficult.
@@DJ-sn2wn u sure?
@@FirstnameLastname-my7bz well I'm not positive because I don't know him personally but I imagine if he had a degree in sales/business he wouldn't be scaming people like this. What is your point though?
Meanwhile they were mad expensive clothes the dude felt like giving away out of the kindness of his heart before heading back to his mansion in Rome to talk about the loss of trust in the world over spaghetti with his brother Luigi
Hahah, made me giggle.
What a plot twist...
@NibiruLives Soviet this soviet that
spaaaaghetiiiii and he noooo comeeee!!! he haaaaateee the spaghetttti and lasangha maayaabe XP
@@FirasTeinz i like to imagine they speak broken english even when they're home.
Yeah this doesn't look suspicious at all! We always keep spare leather jackets on the front seat just in case we meet some lovely ukranian tourist
It doesn't indeed. If he'd said he were the owner of Amazon, not Lafayette it would look a bit suspicious.
It is amazing that criminals like this get upset when you are not willing to be scammed. It is as if you have done something wrong.
Homeless in America are the same way when you don’t give them money when they demand it. Scum bags have jobs too..this is their job…hahaha
You are a sensitive man. In real life we are daily scammed by our feeling of guilt. Real life is full of worst issues they are not upset, they are disappointed.
That's part of the scam - a last-ditch effort to try to get you to change your mind.
His love for Ukrainians has finished very fast when he refused the gift... Ajajai
He is faking to be Italian. He is in fact Russian/Ukrainian Jewish himself, try Googling him out he was exposed numerous times.
@@bobafett5838 his accent is terrible though..and grammar. doubt he's ukrainian or russian.
Romanian
@@bobafett5838 He is definitely not Ukrainian or Russian, his accent is the wildest. I say this as a Russian. His face isn't Russian at all :)
Even if a person lives in another country for a long time, his pronunciation does not change soooo much like this (if he was a Russian). In the comments above some people wrote that he is from Italy cause his accent is clearly Italian.
@@BVLTIC_PORTER вот вот
"I know a little Russian" meanwhile speaks better Russian than me and I've been learning it all my life.
Rebecca Tumblr Are you Russian?
Macy Chocker I'm half Russian. Sorry late answer
is your name actually tumblr????
lol
It's Ukrainian
Alcatraz Kistin no... It's Russian.
So does that mean you can't have spaghetti with his brother in Rome?
What about the LaSaGnA?!?
What about the lasagna Jon? Did you forget about the lasagna Jon?
@@nothingleft3473 bich lasagna
There's vomit on your sweater already,
Bros spaghetti
@@oneill765 smh
He's really putting his multi-linguistic talents to good use.
Right? Speaks English, Italian, Russian, probably French and is doing a cheap scam trick.
It's a pretty normal thing in Europe to be able to speak 3+ languages. I don't know if in America or in Brittain it is enough to get a decent job, but defintly not here
Hes a scammer, learning lenguages is a part of his job
@@narthex1681 No, it is not at all. In Africa it's normal but in Europe if we know English and our country language, it's a LOT. To know more than that, you should be kind of a linguist or smth.
@@narthex1681 In defense of Americans/British I would say t's not "a pretty normal thing", Europeans are bilingual at most on average, if they happen to speak English to varying degrees, only some regions in Europe encompass multiple languages/dialects, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands/Luxembrug/Belgium area, Balkans, etc
3+ languages on average it's a crazy lie to shame Americans or Brits even further, and I'm a Catalan (European) myself, just saying.
Also because 99% of Europeans who are bilingual or more than 2, are simply because these languages are all native to their land, like myself who spoke Spanish and Catalan natively since I was a toddler, and learn English and Portuguese on my own.
Americans and Brits don't have any more native languages than English, which is the lingua franca of this century, unless they want to go abroad to live they literally have no incentive whatsoever to learn any other languages.
This exact same thing happened to me in Paris in 1996. In my case, the charming Italian guy gave me a leather Ferrari jacket, because of course, he was the head designer of Ferrari. Anyway, I accepted it because the jacket was actually really nice. He then gave me another one for my girlfriend -- all for "free." So I accepted after he assured me there were no "strings attached" and I gladly accepted. After that, he asked me if I could give him some gas money cause he had no cash, was out of gas, and of course -- late for his flight at Charles De Gaulle to Milano. When he realized that I literally had no cash on me except for a few francs, and I wasn't willing to give it to him, he took the jackets back and left. Basically, they guilt you into giving them cash for garbage products. For me, it's a lot of work for very little profit, but the truth is, there's a sucker born every minute...
Yes, I'm convinced that most directors of Italian fashion houses drive a 'smart' car around Paris giving their work away to total strangers.
yea, kinda remind me of those "fake instagram art" pages, they use those crappy free aps and filters, etc.
Wrapped in cheap plastic!
Ligier not Smart.
It's a Ligier car and it doesn't require a driver's license in france and the top speed is 45km/h or about 30 miles an hour lol
@@accio4260 So it's technically a moped? Is it true you can drive these at 14 years old in France?
My friend met this exact guy and said he couldn't stop burping while he was talking. Maybe he ate one of the suits?
wAnNA *burp* bUY oNe oF mY *burp* cLOThES thEY'rE *burp* fAShIOn
Lool
Wtf 🤣🤣🤣
He had snail soup
At least the guy was nice, not too pushy and kinda funny
-Ты из Москвы?
-Нет, маленький город.
-Санкт-Петербург?
-Да, Санкт-Петербург.
Так разве нет?
@@fairnut6418 Харьков - второй по населению город Украины
🤣
english:
- do you live in moscow?
- no, i live in a small city
- st. petersburg?
- yes, st. petersburg
this is a russian equivalent to the part in the video where the italian scammer asked him if he comes from odessa, tourist said no, he lives in a small city, the scammer then asked kharkov? And the tourist just said yes, yes, kharkov. The thing is that kharkov isn't a small city at all, it has over 1mio inhabitants and is the second largest city in whole of ukraine, so the scammer had no idea about the ukraine at all. just like st. petersburg, which is the second largest and very famous city in russia after moscow, not quite a "small city".
лел
Whenever someone's story is so overly convoluted you know to be suspicious
right? Like I just tell em common man get to the scam! For whatever reason they just swear in Romanian and leave though...
Whenever any stranger is talking to you it's suspicious.
The KGB test is to make him talk about "rybalka" - "Париж-столица Италии " ua-cam.com/video/uDpf_GmaYLQ/v-deo.html
@@liampett1313 What do Romanians have to do with this? This guy is Italian.
Cause most Romanian try this in the state. I'm romanian and can vouch
The scam happened when he was sold that car 😂
He's just trying to make his money back now 😂
Worst part is that these cars that dont require driving licenses are at least 10k € new...
@@cookie3072 I don't know who told you they don't require driving licenses for those, but they told you a lie
@@stepans2167 i litteraly owned one before obtaining my driver license but sure bud
@@cookie3072 which country doesn't require a license for driving a Smart?
I love how he still couldn't keep in his hatred for the French. A good Italian man.
Italians are truly convinced of the contrary.
Is there a particular reason Italians hate the French?
@@alexandercrush
Everyone in Europe hates the French
@@justicewarrior9187 It's ok since we are proud to be hated. It's making us more unique 😂.
@@ScottMccain117 je suis anglais et j’aime les français et la France haha
Wasted potential could have been a really good salesman
No way that guy is a fashion director by the way he dresses. He’s more of a bankrupt car insurance agent🤣
The "dress" is what threw you off and not the totally ridiculous excuse for a car ? A fashion director who drives a 45 km/h vehicle that doesnt even require a liscence. Yeah, right...
He is not Italian, he is faking his ethnicity. He is in fact a Russian Jew from Odessa/Crimea. Google him up.
A broke 70's private Eye
"I own a largo clothes store, I can give you these very expensive gifts" homie you in a go cart with some aluminum around it
Just getz worse. Beyond Racism...
@@cutree476 i don’t understand your joke because that is definitely not a fiat 500 abarth
@@somethingsock6707 can you explain it to me? I can't really understand why giving another person a gift is called a scam?
@@anbiabohlam5468 idk they probably ask for money after or sumn
i like your picture sir
You would think that speaking French, Italian, Russian and Lord-knows how many other languages, that there are thousands of great-paying legitimate jobs that do not involve scamming.
What a waste of top-tier language and interpersonal skills!
Penny wise and £ foolish.
Found quite weird as well. The man has politician-like persona and is at least trilingual. He could work in an embassy or as an interpreter or some shit.
Yes, he could easily work as a banker and legally scam all customers as they usually do.
@@lfarru he isn't Jewish.
@@ethnicleanserberg7975 he is
His Russian is quite bad tbh.
lol I immediately understood Kolya wasnt taking him serious when he confirmed he lived in the "small" city, Kharkov
is Kharvov large? or
@@Mistysfedora Well it has a few million people yeah...
I think he meant near Kharkov
Hey! I met this same guy in october 2008, same name, Gaitano! haha. Very nice guy (even being a scammer). He said that he went to Paris during the fashion week but he lost his wallet, then he asked me for 50 eur to get some gas for his car (it wasn´t a smart in that moment, just a white sedan), and showed me that "suede" jackets as a gift for my help. Of course I laughed and kept walking, but it was a little funny moment, can´t believe some people buy their stories.
I love street scammers. The performance, the effort, the inventiveness. Much better than mugging tourists
Yeah but mugging is a good honest trade , you know where you are with a mugger and what to expect, imagine people's disappointment when they get home and their designer jacker falls apart - that kind of experience sticks with you
@@davebryan1890 bruh you cant do shit if you are mugged, but you can save yourself from being scammed by not being an idiot
@@RyanGosring he is describing another dimension of it
Wait if they were free how come he didn’t take them??
Imagine that some people spend all day making stories and trying to figure out how to cheat people. Thats real work.
A fashion director would not drive a car like that... lol
Yeah....simple eyesight lul.
it is not electric car. it's 0.5 liter "mopedcar". I think it is new Ligier. its price is about 15000€ :D
Still low price small car.
yep
Also they would never come to a stranger begging to people on the street for advertisements. If he really owned a store in Lafayette which I've been many times as my mother buys stuff there, it is extremely expensive and not for everyone, so if he had a store there he even wouldn't bother to go to strangers, there is advertisement and agents for this.
Some people are so dumb that's crazy, but what should we be surprised after all ?
This guy stopped me in London. I happen to be italian. We ended the conversation with some unpleasantries.
god he gets about
@@jf7075 yeah lol
@@jf7075 I want to meet him 💀
From Paris to London! Businesses goes well.
More context, please.
He seems like someone who has genuine sales talent, gifted in being very charismatic and is multilingual. Definitely could have been very successful if he didnt....you know, try to scam people for a living.
He probably was working in sales most of his life but for some reason no longer and I assume could not find another job so he was left no choic3 but to scam people using his professional talent
On the continent multilingualism is common. More people speak two languages than only one, and being conversational in 3+ isn't rare, especially in somewhere like Paris. It doesn't set you apart as having a unique skill like in the Anglosphere.
he when he denys the "so called gift" his mood changes instantly.
CAT mEOW yeah.. because he invested a lot of time talking with this dude thinking he's got a deal.. you have to be free of the outcome lol
RSD?
What happens if he accepts it? And leaves like nothing
CAT mEOW right it was almost scary. He looked pissed as hell jaw locked up and everything
@@DRKALX One of two things he'll either guilt him into giving him money or he'll notify the police claiming the guy robbed him.
This guy is known for going around Paris asking to sniff everybody’s butts & farts as well. that’s why he got so mad at the end , he was gonna ask the guy to fart in his face but he wouldn’t even take his gift. His name is Cletcho Kova. Notorious.
His real face
classic psychopath
ikr they get so pissy when people dont want to fall for their stupid scams.
Like in lord of the rings when the older hobbit from The Hobbit wants to see the ring one last time from the younger hobbit.
@@echoecho5244 you mean when in fellowship of the ring frodo goes to rivendell and his uncle bilbo is there and whilst frodo is taking off his shirt to put on the mithril shirt his uncle gave him, bilbo sees the ring and goes a bit nuts over the ring?
These scams go two ways. You accept the "free" items at which point the scammer asks for some gas money as a gift since he was "nice" enough to give you some designer gear for free. As a decent human being, 9/10 they expect you to cough up. The second way is that there are accomplices of the scammer nearby who will accost you when the scammer drives off and either mug you or harass you until you give them the items or some money to leave you alone.
Never accept stuff like this when it is offered freely, especially if you are a tourist. They are scammers and you can get in all kinds of trouble. Politely decline and have them move on. If they persist, remain polite and make up an excuse that you have to be somewhere and someone is expecting you. At this point you will be too much effort for them and they will move on to the next person.
Imagine this guy was really the owner of lafayette and just tried to keep it low key, doing something nice
well the owner of Lafayette in a car like this ? The owner of Lafayette doesn't have such a car ahaa and doesnt ask for directions ...
"that guy doesn't want my free gift, I hate him now"
@Expanse Here is a box of my poop. I made it just for you.
@Expanse no offence but i think it's insult in culture of muslim people usually, europeans in my experience never done that
@@Matthew-ko3me declining a gift is disrespectuful in almost all cultures
@@-crosby I always decline gifts. lol
If you logically think about it, giving a gift could be considered just as rude as not accepting one.
Why is it rude to not accept a gift?: maybe you don’t value the gift which then translates into a lack of value for the person. Maybe it’s the emotional response of rejection that is being imposed upon the gift giver.
I believe that either way you look at it the gift giver is putting the burden upon the one receiving the gift. How can you think you are burdened by receiving a gift? My response to that is why do you think the world must continue to operate in a manner that is consistent with materialism. At the end of the day is it really all about the plus or minus of things? I don’t believe so.
With that in mind you could reasonably say that it is rude to try and give a gift to someone expecting them to have the same values as you ( this puts pressure on the one receiving and who are you to impose that upon them?) sadly we live in a world where hidden intention or personal gain is always present, aka this video ( even if it wasn’t obvious you can almost always assume that there is gain of value somewhere ). So why is it rude if the person receiving the gift rejects when the person who is presenting the gift is the one imposing the situation in the first place? (The person receiving the gift could say how dare you make me feel uncomfortable in this situation, that is rude.) I would think that in an ideal world a person would be logical enough to realize that they might not want it and that is okay, but sadly we live in a world of illogical people.
I think at the end of the day if people in general stepped outside of their own interruptions of the world around them and realized it’s not about them then this world would be a better place.
Would be fun to give him a counterfeit $100 bill. That'll fix it.
Scamception
@@mimikaka1039 I just figured out it's possible to love and hate someone you have never met. I clicked on this to make this exact same comment just to find it already here. With your name... Bravo. Take care like minded stranger
@Bam The Secularist but atleast you still get a cheap free jacket
@Bam The Secularist plus also, hopefully that next person who ends up with the fake bill just scams another one of these random crooks back, like you did. And then when that new scammer scams another tourist with that fake bill, then that tourist scams back another different of these crooks as well. And so on and so on. The cycle continues.
@@josephblanchard6248 well if a fake bill actually deceived all of those people, maybe it was actually worth something... right?
if he's the director of italian fashion then I'm batman.
It happened to me in 2015 in Berlin (I live there). Unluckily for the guy I am italian and knew the trick. It was really funny pretending to be a german tourist and having a friend calling the police meanwhile. Unfortunately I couldn't keep him for as long as they needed to arrive. I only manged to tell him "good things" about his mother, his grandmother and his sister in the end, but it was worth the while...
Haven't seen them around for many years now.
these ppl are honoring their familys by their actions. good thing you reminded him xD
Yesterday i got an email, saying that i have an unknown rich uncle in Dubai, and that for only 150 USD, i will receive 500 million USD from him. Oh what a bargain!
😂😂😂
So now they got offices in Dubai. I had a lot of these letters from Nigeria.
Thats a good deal
"You know what Toby? When the son of the deposed King of Nigeria e-mails you DIRECTLY asking you for help, you help!! His father ran the freakin' country... Okay??"
@@PatrickWagz classic Michael Scott. Student of comedy
Dah
Evilmane! Random to see you here
I know a place.
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Dah
damn what's up
After giving you the “gift” he asks for some gas money because he’s running out of fuel
Something like this happened to me in Colombo, Sri Lanka. A well dressed retired airline pilot struck up a conversation with me on the street, soon wanted to mail my parents some tea from his plantation. The catch was that he wanted me to pay the postage in advance. Sri Lanka was chock full of scammers.
Well yeah if u in Colombo you’re gonna encounter scammers. Big cities = number of scammers. It’s common sense, not the country’s fault. Come to Kandy and tell me if u find any scammers
Happened to me in Paris as well. I'm French but I don't live in France so when I'm going to Paris I'm a tourist as well and they are quite good to spot it.
Similar guy gave me 3 shirts like that. I knew it was a scam but I accepted the gift and right after I pretended to receive a phone call.
I said thank you to the guy and left.
He parked his car and ran after me asking for money.
Told him to fuck off and went on my way with his shit gift.
+kopoo33 LOL.
LOL. shit scam then...they are basically giving away free shit...then asking for money after telling you to walk away with it free of charge. What mug would pay up? you'd either give it back or like yourself, tell them to Fuck off.
haha, nice
You done well.Stealing from a thief is one of best thjngs ever.
That's what I don't get. I hear about these scams all the time and wonder how the hell they could possibly work. Do the innocent people they get pulled on somehow have the inability to tell the scammer to go fuck themselves?
Found elsewhere, this is how they do it.
We were in Rome last week. Had just left our B&B to walk to the Colosseum when a car pulled up next to us and the well-dressed driver asked if we spoke English (yes) then asked for directions to the Colosseum. Then he started telling us how he is a manger for Giorgio Armani in Florence, showed us a folder of the latest designs and asked where we were from (Australia). Then he started on about his wife being from Australia etc etc. Then he gave us 2 coats ("leather and silk") telling us they were worth heaps of money, but we weren't to sell them. Then ... he asked for some petrol money ... €100 or €150. Fortunately we were also on our way to a bank and didn't have much cash with us, but foolishly we just handed over about €40 and he drove off. We went back to our B&B to leave the coats. Of course they are made of polyester and are very ugly - we can't believe how gullible we were and feel quite foolish about the whole episode. So as a warning to others - just be aware that this is happening in Rome. We can laugh about it now and are treating it as a story to relate when we get home!
What if you take the coats and say no to lending the money. Will he ask for the coats back lol?
Sounds like being absolutely foolish. To take some shit from a suspiciously nice guy at the street and give him any money in return just because he told you a story about his fancy shop and said that his shit is very expensive and has a good quality. Heard a thousand of stories like that.
@@saurabhbhalla90 The thing is these guys are locals, so if you take their things without giving any money they'll harass you and call the cops on you. Because you don't speak the local language you'll have an extremely hard time explaining the situation.
The only way to get them clean is by taking videos like these and being fluent enough to explain yourself in a local language.
You actually thought a director at Armani needed petrol money, ha your thick
@@MiguelSantini19-57 you're your yaw sensor
LMAO, this could have totally become a comedy sketch like from Key and Peele where two scammers try to scam each other. Maybe next time, you bring along your 'suede' jacket and trade him and say we are doing each other good.
He’s such an amazing fashion director that he’s even driving a shoe 👞
I like how his facial expression changes instantly when the guy denies his "gift" 😅
Psycho showed his true colors from 0-100
Also police was in the background in this moment!
OMG!!! I just saw this SAME GUY this summer. He stopped in front of my hotel and started talking to me. He offered me THE SAME “suede jacket”. Anyways, I took it and said good bye... he didn’t get to scam me though because i was right in front of my hotel. 20 steps and I was inside the lobby... he probably tried to follow me but couldn’t find me... i still have the “gifts” haha
i'm going over there to try to get free jackets. say thanks and bolt
Nicely done 🤣
So was the quality of the jacket At least decent or was it Trash
God job man, but can you show it to us?
fake
Give the man a break. He had lost all his savings to pro scammers on Wall Street and now he's trying some kiddies scams on tourists.
Plot twist : they're actuallyfashion designer 🤣 giving free stuffs
This guy should become an actor... or a politician!
he would be a perfect politician in Ireland....we always elect sleazy scumbags promising the world.
What's the difference? :/
NO..... there are enough thieves in politics already
I thought an actor was a politician.
With his language skills, it's a waste to be a small-time crook.
Lol....the owner of Lafayette driving around in a crappy toy pedal car.....??
No credibility issue there then at all!
its a voiture sans permit (VSP). anyone over 14 can drive them without a a license I think (and possibly while drunk)...
just say 500cc
no 500cc is not 50cc
Although I see your point, I must also say that's a narrow vision... What does the car you are driving has to do with how much you make? Plus, that car is much better fit for a busy city than many others. As long as it works fine, I don't see the problem. It's not like he was driving an old beaten 1990s BMW.
I wouldn't say crappy - those things can cost up to 20,000 euros
The true demon surfaces when you catch them out.
I want to be stopped so when I take the clothes, I'd be like "Thanks man, really appreciate it. Gotta go, take care!" and walk off... lol
I wonder how far that guy could run. It would be almost worth taking the jacket to see
how does the scam even work if its a gift cant you just walk off with it?
@@zxth yes, but you may actually record that bc the guy may plea that you stole those, and since he is the owner and probably carry the receipt, you could get in trouble
*Those Italians are so nice. They even get mad, when you don't want their present. Lovely*
I love how u wasted his time
He needs to start the scam with "My name is Giovanni Georgio, but everybody calls me Georgio)
They probably ask you to pay for the suit once they give it to you. I can tell he was trying to build your trust with those jokes about French people and his Italian brother that has a spaghetti restaurant. It's a lot like that string scam where they tie a string to you and then you pay to have it removed.
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He was building trust oh shit glad you told me
No they wont ask you to pay for the suit, they ask money for petrol, which makes more sense since they just gave you "free stuff" practically worth nothing just to build trust. So they ask for an amount of petrol money worth more than the actual stuff they gave you.
Travel Rule Number One: Be aware of strangers coming out of a crowd to greet you like a "friend". Seriously.
Alyways and everywhere!
Imagine walking with a bag of jackets yourself and when these scammers pull up about to do their thing, you tell them you are a fashion director giving out jackets, that would be hilarious to see their reaction.
No fashion director would be caught dead in that cosplay outfit
Had this exact scam tried on me in Rome. Had seen this video and was aware because of it. Thank you.
Typical scammer behavior : Once they realized you won't be conned, all the chit-chat vanishes and they leave almost instantly.
"I’m a fashion director and since I see you holding a camera in this tourist area i’ve got just enough spare time in my busy schedule to chitchat and try to stir interest in you to accept this free gift all because i love my fellow ukrainians and santa claus."
it might sound legit to someone with dementia
I presume they get someone to approach you and say that you stole them, then demand money so that they don’t call the police.
As a foolproof rule, never allow anyone to hand you anything or put anything on your wrist. Just ignore them and keep walking.
*I have encountered “fashionistas” like this in America. There are from “clothing and perfume” industries. They say they were in a convention and they have high end stuff left over, very very expensive and they don’t want to take it back to Italy. So they are selling it for a couple of bucks to you out of kindness. They show you something that in fact is legit and expensive as bait and if you agree to buy they give you a bag with worthless rags. Any deal too good to be truth is because 99% of the time always is so apply common sense and you’ll be ok. Is easy to pass the high linguistic skills this dudes have to tangle you up if you stand your ground just like the guy in this video.*
or just dont talk to strangers. always works for me.
I get the same feeling when I got into an Apple store with my broken iphone.
Me and my friend had met this exact same guy along with same two jackets same clothes, just he was driving a green mini Cooper this time in Feb 2017 in Paris. Unbelievable!!
wow that's crazy!
W OMEGALUL W
@@theplayer178 W OMEGALUL W W OMEGALUL W W OMEGALUL W
Tushar Bhardwaj he probably scammed others of their money to get this car in the video lol
Ok
Great salesmanship. He should open an actual store and be a legitimate business man.
no
or maybe he should be put to jail...
This guy reminds me of childhood traumas while playing Mario Cart, oh the memories of betrayal!
Mama mia
I'm amazed at how multi-lingual these scammers are. Once long ago I was sitting by myself in a train station in rural Finland in midwinter at about 4 am. I was the only passenger in the terminal. A dude walked in, sat next to me and started talking in Finnish. I gave him a shrug. He immediately switched to German. I shook my head. Then, in a polished Oxford accent, he asked me for money in English. I got up and moved away. He glowered at me for a while, then he left. Who thinks about panhandling at 4 am in freezing weather? And if he took time to learn 3 languages, why can't he get a good job and stop scamming?
Begging is not scamming..?
Had one of these on the M6, Knutsford Services ten years ago, ended up buying a 'suede' jacket for £20, I still keep it and wear it occasionally to remind me not to be so stupid in the future!
It's not Armani and definately not suede, what we used to call 'suedette' back in the day. I deliberately parked some way away from the building to stretch my legs after driving up from Bath, that's why yer man zeroed in on me, he had all the spiel about having to catch a ferry back to Italy and he had to move the gear on to avoid paying 'import tax', even had a LHD car to complete the illusion. As I had just got out of my car, I couldn't clock the reg. plates. Walking to the building I thought to myself 'you've been 'ad mate!'. When I was getting back in my car having used the facilities another 'Italian' drove up and tried the same patter. My reply was a masterclass in finest West Country Industrial English!
Hahah that's what you want though mate. Bit of clobber with a story behind it not a label eh?
@James Sempy Good to know. I guess different countries have different laws.
lol, i was fooled by 4 welsh guys in Birmingham, they showed me 8 phones in a a bag sitting inside their car, and ask for just 100 pounds, i was suspicious BUT my frind want me to pay as the phones were worth 1000 pounds, i apid and quickly they grb the money and gve me bag and shoot off, when i open the bag....................
Jesus! you still remember me. I told you that jacket was a belter.
Im french and i met 3 times this type of scammer and they all start to say me : " Are you Italian ? "
I think it's a scammer organization and not an isolated act
Thanks for the description, I almost thought it's Paris, Ohio!
Man, I fell for this scam, haha. It happened to me in 2015 in Paris. I was studying abroad in Madrid, Spain, for a year, and my sister from the states came to visit me and we decided to meet up in London and then fly to Paris.
We were walking down the street looking for a place to eat when suddenly a guy pulls up next to us in a car. We spoke to a guy in Spanish because I didn’t want to be identified as an American. He sounded Italian. Anyways, he tells us he’s some fashion director on his way back to the airport to go back to Italy and needs money for gas for his rental car. He said he’d give me a free leather jacket for whatever money I can spare. I think I gave him like £20-£50 because I didn’t have any euros on me. I was planning on keeping those pounds as a collection of foreign currencies I wanted to start.
I legitimately fell for his scam and thought I simply got lucky to meet a fashion director. I’m usually very self-aware of scams but for some reason I didn’t think this was one. I ended up giving that leather jacket to my dad when my sister went back to the states and I went back to Madrid. It looked and smelled like good quality leather, but what do I know - I ain’t no fashion or counterfeit expert? It’s probably garbage for all I know. My dad liked the jacket, though, haha. After watching this video, I’m kicking myself in the butt for being so gullible and giving him so much money for probably a low-quality counterfeit leather jacket.
20 - 50 pounds is not too much money. And you got a jacket. It's incredible you even get bothered by this memory.
Thats not so bad, dude. People that buy iPhones fall for bigger scamms than you do
You learned a great life lesson and didn’t loose much in the process. You’re now able to share your experience with others in hopes they don’t fall victim. And have a great/funny story to tell.
@@dollazNzentz hahahhaa exactly!! It’s a fun story to tell! Thank you for your comment.
He preyed on your greed - this is how most con men operate
Can clearly tell this guy isn't Italian after he talked about eating spaghetti and lasagna at a restaurant in Rome. No real Italian can be this stereotypical...
@Sal Dimarchese that guy probably isnt low IQ , he speaks possibly 4 languages
He's surely Italian from Naples or there about,.The real stereotype is that best scammers are from there.
He is, he even speaks with a Neapolitan accent
Emperor Palpatine well, I‘m German and eat Schnitzel and Bratwurst on Holidays soooo....
@Sal DiMarchese truth my friend. Exactly what i was thinking
I've experienced something like that with my father at a gas station here in Germany. Scammer: "Sorry, may I ask you something? I'm Italian." My father: "Italian? Not my failure." / "Italiener? Kann ich auch nichts für." That was priceless, Clint Eastwood couldn't have had delivered this line cooler.
He could literally make good money as a tour guide cause he speaks multiple languages
This scam works like this
they give you a bag, tell you its free, and as soon as you accept the gift
they will park a car near by, and come to you, and ask you for money,
you try giving them the gift back, they won't take it, they will continually follow you until you either decide to given them money, or run like hell, or punch them in the face
I would just stab them and walk off. Men following me and acting intimidating is a threat to my safety, and I must act fast to defend myself, and acting fast is stabbing and running.
I would choose punch this fucker in the face
You wouldn't stab anyone kid, you'd shit yourself and cry.
just dump the bag and walk away
fight them or go to a public place and talk to a police officer
That's what I love about Europe, even the hustlers are polyglots. Meanwhile in North America people can barely speak their native language properly.
juankenon what you saying about us
juankenon Pretty different situation, the average American lives probably like a thirty hour drive from an area where a different language is spoken. Just not as much motivation to spend the time and resources learning a skill they'll use for one two week vacation.
ClosestToTheSun That is not exactly true. The average American very often lives near an area where a different language is spoken as a first language even if that area is within the country. When I watch a crime show like The First 48 Hours for example, I am quite shocked at the number of policemen in Miami, Dallas (or other cities with areas where Spanish is the first languages) who don't even speak Spanish yet are supposed to solve murders committed in areas where most witnesses only speak Spanish. That, said British people also often only speak one language so it is not specific to American people but more to the fact that English speaking people rely on the fact that most foreign people have some kind of English. I am glad I am able to speak several languages myself not only because it is useful when traveling but also because when listening to the same news but from countries, you realise that each country has some kind of" tunnel vision" and a very biased and self centered view of the world.
letsyit Good points all around!
juankenon i totally get your comment man! I myself am a lover of languages, and i am fluent in a couple. BUT...know this.....there is a good reason this occurs. Not only Americans are this way, but so are Brits, Aussies and Kiwis....its because our native language happens to be the dominant/business language for the world at the present time...thus creating no real need to learn other languages unless its for your own leisure or interests
Can you Imagine that this happened to me in Montreal, Canada? A fashion director wanted to "give me" his fashion clothes before his flight to Milan, for $1500. Their scam became a global international racket.
when he said "спасибо, нет спасибо." i can feel how disappointed the scammer is.😂
Neapolitan accent, classic robber.
Discriminating other people based on prejudices, classic racist.
@siwuz84 human race.
@joe hayes and just who the fuck are you? If you came just to insult, that's a weak effort, I dare you to try harder, moron.
@siwuz84 he wasn't referring to a french though.
@siwuz84 The race is the same in the real word, in the head of the racist it's not. It's literally the definition of the word. So yes, an italian can be racist towards a french, if the italians believes he is of a better and different race.
Rule number one: Always assume its a scam when someone you don't know approaches you, until proven other wise.
Rule number two: If something seems to good to be true... its almost always to good to be true.
I have been scammed in the past and its an awful feeling of humiliation and anger. Although i went through it like that, its a lesson i will remember for the rest of my life.
would you mind sharing details of what happened? I'm going to Paris in 2 weeks and want to know what to look out for
yakikadafi - If a stranger approaches you for any reason and you are being pressured into accepting a gift or invitation - it’s a scam (or worse). The more uncomfortable you feel about simply saying “bye” and walking away, the more you know it’s a scam.
liar fighter what's a moonie🤔🤔🤔
@@kadafi4lyf No stranger can get into my arm's length without my alarm, with my readiness to punch him or her at any time
someone who loves daphne moon
About 20 years ago my husband was stopped by a guy in a car just near our house,he told him about the leather jackets he had for a tradefair and offered him five jackets.My husband said he didn't want five jackets but the guy said he could have one for £20.He bought it and brought it in to show me,I was sure it was a scam but couldn't think how.Anyway the jacket was beautiful inside and out,he still has it and it is as good as new.
This scam never gets old. Similar scam happens to me over twenty years ago in Rome.
Yeah, when i was in Paris I'm also encountered by them, they tell me that their stuff is worth 1,000 euros but "i will sell this only 25 euros JUST FOR YOU, don't tell anyone that you can get this cheap because you are my best friend" (sure... "Best friend" because i meet him just 5 minutes ago)
Don't be so cynical! To someone like that, you probably ARE their best friend... :)
Funny story. My Dad once redirected a genuine lost Italian sales representative to an airport he couldn't find. Guy didn't speak English, he did speak French. I got a real cashmere coat as a present out of that act of kindness. :)
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Really, in the world of internet and gps he couldnt find airport?
@@ademiravdic This happened about 2006. GPs told you where you where, it didn't tell you how to read a map written in a foreign language.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone#Form_factor_and_operating_system_shifts
In the UK, if you overshoot your turn on a main motorway, you cannot make a right hand turn and come back until the next junction roundabout. Driving on the "other" side of the road didn't help.
lol sure you did
Nice fake story you dipshit
This guy looks straight out of a dream. A magical dwarf living inside a washing machine, who gives you free clothes, whenever you pass by
I experienced this twice, they tell you they have leftover clothes from the fashion week and will sell them to you for cheap before heading back to Italy.
Next time , tell him that you are Russian gangster and you just got out of the prison for beating up an Italian mafia guy !!!
Excellent hahaha
..🤭🤭😂😂😂😂
Lol he just drives of without saying bye
The sociopath scammer knows his cover is blown and acts accordingly.
he actually said bye at 3:09 says "cià, statti bene",
which means "bye, take care" xd
His buttwhole hurts
”Hi im a complete stranger and wants to offer you free clothing because you are ukrainian and my wife is. ”Who is actually stupid enough to believe this crap
Roronoa Zoro Lol I wouldn’t care if he said bye, scamming ass
I live in Paris for 2 years now and I've never seen this kind of scam. It seems I blend it in well haha
Not exactly the same thing, but when I was in Rome, there were these guys that would come up to my group because we were tourists and ask if we were from England. When we told them no, they would get confused and ask where we're from. When we said Wales they would be even more confused. Then they would insist on trying to give us bracelets that they would wrap around our hands under the guise of a gift, but would keep us talking, then try to get money from us, then when we wouldn't give any, they'd take the bracelets back.
I also had something similar happen in Cardiff with a guy trying to give me a CD because he saw me wearing headphones (he thought I was listening to music and when asking what I was listening to and me saying I was listening to an audio drama, he described the CD he pushed into my hand as containing real drama, probably not even knowing what an audio drama is). He said it was free and then started asking for donations, which I wouldn't give him, so he took it back and walked off.
"You know what Toby? When the son of the deposed King of Nigeria e-mails you DIRECTLY asking you for help, you help!! His father ran the freakin' country... Okay??"
It is a pyramid scheme Michael 😂
@@balajimohan3990 Who uses *calling cards* anymore???? haha
@@balajimohan3990 how is it a pyramide scheme jim?
Damn. I was really curious to see how he "asks" for the money afterwards.
He will ask him to help with gas money saying that his card got froze or something.
@@WTFan Ah okay.. thanks.
Should of just took the clothes and took off outta there lol
Yeah just take it, leave and give it to a homeless
@@emilecarette8993 nobody:
homeless: it's a not even cloth, it's a scam!
XD
By the way, as an Italian, he is no way from Rome, he has the thickest Neapolitan accent...birthplace of scams.
Here in Portugal they do the same thing but with fake replica perfumes.
They say they are in town for a few days in some kind of fake perfume showroom and say they have only a few examples left for sale then they try to sell like two for the price of one and if you refuse they get real mad.
I spoke with this guy in Rome!!! after the gift he will ask you for money for gas...
Man from the middle door how much would he want?
Fashion business can't be doing well then. Pin stripe suit may of given that away.
Ya exact same happened to me in Rome in around 2002
@@_Junkers What's wrong with a pin stripe suite? I have one, it was expensive but I love it!
I never got approached by scammers in Paris. I’m German & lived there a few years. I still travel there quite often.
My tip: Don’t dress like a tourist. Parisians would never leave the house dressed like going to a gym.
Learn to have a non- interested look in your eyes.
And as a girl in certain areas, don’t look young north african men in the eyes while walking on the streets.
They sense unsecurity& may harass you verbally.
But you know, Europe is quite pleasant . I made a cross country trip through Egypt recently. There you can’t walk 3 meters in peace. Especially in Cairo. 😡
That's "diversity" and multiculturalism for you.
A promised fairyland from our politicians.
@@slavnat8446 says the disgusting orc
@@realkingtv7885 Yes, we disgusting orcs live in our own countries, while you want to live among us orcs. Amusing, isn't it?
I was in Paris in 1984 and was approached by one of these guys. It's been going on for a long, long time.
i would love to see how the scam technique ends. imagine: you take the gift in your hand, and ask him 3-4 times "is this for me, for free?" after admitting. you take it, then run to the next trash can and throw it in, right before his eyes. would be priceless
but what's the point of taking the suit for free?
@@llVIU read your comment again, but slowly…
I've seen another scam like that. Usually they build a sense of trust with the tourist and then ask for money (for oil for exemple). It seems like a good deal because you got a special 'designer' item that seems priceless for 40 euros.
I found the other scam on youtube: ua-cam.com/video/_eo2smClH5U/v-deo.html
he asks you for gas money (like 50 euro) after you accept the gift (which he'll claim is worth thousands, when it's worth close to nothing).
Just take the jacket than and tell the guy ur broke...