Man charged with making $3,000 Zelle transfer during Millennium Park robbery

Cwb Chicago ^ | 07/21/2024 | CWBChicago

[ChicagoConservative27]

Nobody's transferring anything from my phone..

[bigbob]

This level of stupidity ain’t cheap

[Scrambler Bob]

Hand me your wallet, and I will take $1 from it.

[DocRock]

What a bargain! They got a degree from the School of Hard Knocks at only three grand? Cheap graduate in a useful subject.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

My wife and I got shaken down like this 40 years ago in a downtown Palo Alto parking lot at night. Two large, menacing black men asked for $20. We gave it to them. No tech needed back then.

[JParris]

I gotta say, anyone that would hand a phone with open bank app to a stranger deserves anything they get (or lose).

Stupidity should be painful.

[lee martell]

Why would you ever surrender physical control of your phone, so that a street Bum could transfer money to himself?
Just say No!

[Bobbyvotes]

My bank app requires me to enter my password.

[Indy Pendance]

You have to watch this short video, a guy steals a phone, then gets hit by a bus. The commentary is great!

https://rumble.com/v57qh1v-a-thief-in-so-paulo-brazil-gets-hit-by-a-bus-after-snatching-a-phone-from-a.html

[Indy Pendance]

This is a great clip of a guy stealing a phone then getting hit by a bus. It's short.

A thief in São Paulo, Brazil gets hit by a bus after snatching a phone from an elderly man

[bigbob]

Sure, but you didn’t hand them your wallet expecting they’d just take a 20 and hand it back.

[Paladin2]

My phones do NOT have anything related to money loaded on them [as far as I know anyway].

[lee martell]

Wow! Talk about poetic justice,

Or
Being Thrown Under the Bus by Fate.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Lol…good point.

[know.your.why]

This level of stupidity ain’t cheap

If yer gonna be dumb you gotta be tough...

[dadfly]

no one, no where *could* transfer anything from my dumb phone.

[AnonymousConservative]

Hi, I’m a homeless street bum with nothing to my name. Can you use your cell phone banking app to transfer some money to mine?

[VTenigma]

I don’t have a “phone”.

[lee martell]

Apparently, that worked, and morevthan a couple of times.
The phone owner must have been afraid to say no, or didn’t want to be called negative, ugly names by a Doper.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

One first order rule of thumb is not to interact with people whose skin tone doesn't match your own.