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 âone two threeâ 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 itâs not and everything is good in here. I watched for half a minute then walked away because I couldnât bear with the discomfort with the reality of whatâs 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 weâre 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 âSCAMMERSâ?
I ended up doing both
As I was doing it, I received several frowns from the scammers. At first thatâs 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 canât 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 âwhatâs your problemâ and I repeatedly respond âyouâre scamming peopleâ. He continues to ask as if thatâs 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 âIâm a scammerâ
At some point I had to leave coz I had friends embarrassingly waiting for me lol. I unfortunately canât stay there all day and night saving peopleâs 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