I was beside the love garden(lustgarten) where I saw a crowd of people holding cash in their hand and surrounding a man sitting on the floor saying “one two three” in German
at first I thought it was some sort of performance where people are having fun but I then remembered one of the first things my exchange program professor warned us on the first day… Exactly that
At first I had doubts and tried to convince myself it’s not and everything is good in here. I watched for half a minute then walked away because I couldn’t bear with the discomfort with the reality of what’s happening
As I was walking away, my thoughts started to become more clear and rational and this is when I decided to turn back and put an end to this
when I arrive, I see the same group of ~6 people which confirmed that we’re dealing with scammers
this is where things get juicy
At first I was unsure of how I could stop them, should I tell the people around that they are scammers or should I point at them and stream “SCAMMERS”?
I ended up doing both
As I was doing it, I received several frowns from the scammers. At first that’s all they did. They tried to ignore me
I noticed several people just watching these scammers. I thought they were watching because they were considering to join but when I warn them they give me that nod signifying that they already know. Idk bout them but I can’t bear watching innocent people get scammed right in front of my eyes without doing anything about it.
One person tries to walk me out of the circle as if he was bout to give me a deep talk
I go back and continue to warn people then another one of them starts pushing me away and repeating the statement “what’s your problem” and I repeatedly respond “you’re scamming people”. He continues to ask as if that’s not a valid enough reason. Thinking bout this pisses me off so fkn much. I wanna punch each one of them in the fkn face so that it would permanently leave a mark on their face saying “I’m a scammer”
At some point I had to leave coz I had friends embarrassingly waiting for me lol. I unfortunately can’t stay there all day and night saving people’s money
I ended up doing the same thing the next day while getting recorded and this time the response was even weirder. They started sounding like sheep and clapping and basically made a fool of themselves which helped my case
they thought they would be able to embarrass me by doing that but I ofc was unfazed by anything they did