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The mainstream media needs to know what's up with these scammers. Maybe if their picture was postedon the news they might stop asking for money who knows.
I doubt that anybody with the nerve to do what these characters do would be intimidated , or embarrassed , by their pictures being on/in the news. As long as they're making money , they aren't going to stop.
If Newsday was to do a story on these people , it would probably be a sugar-coated , heart-string tugging , load of gibberish about the plight of Long Island's homeless and the high unemployment rate.
Theses scammers seem to be slowly , but surely , moving across the island in an easternly direction. By the time they get to Montauk they'll probaly be able to buy a home there with cash.
I saw them at target in Bay shore and then my wife saw them the next day at Kohls in Deer Park
It's nuts how anyone can stand in front of stores and demand money. I am fed up with people like this as well as pseudo-charities having the nerve to block doorways.
If I want to donate money I want to choose where, not be intimated by people.
I agree with GR8ACTR. I stopped reading the local paper when I lived there because you'd have a story or more a day about poor "so and so" from (insert country here) who has a terrible life and how he is barely struggling to work his 2 jobs...blah, blah.
I doubt that anybody with the nerve to do what these characters do would be intimidated , or embarrassed , by their pictures being on/in the news. As long as they're making money , they aren't going to stop.
If Newsday was to do a story on these people , it would probably be a sugar-coated , heart-string tugging , load of gibberish about the plight of Long Island's homeless and the high unemployment rate.
Theses scammers seem to be slowly , but surely , moving across the island in an easternly direction. By the time they get to Montauk they'll probaly be able to buy a home there with cash.
The picture would be more to spread the word and expose them so that people do not give them money, not to try and embarrass them.
The picture would be more to spread the word and expose them so that people do not give them money, not to try and embarrass them.
A local shopping center employee created a flyer to hand out to her clients.
DH told me he saw one guy who got a tad aggressive with a shopper in the local HD parking lot. He was looking to help load a car for money. The shopper shooed him off, and then he went to another person with a few bags with chatting them up.
People have to stop giving them money. No honey, no bears.
A local shopping center employee created a flyer to hand out to her clients.
People have to stop giving them money. No honey, no bears.
Great idea with the flyer. This is why it might help to flood the area with pictures of these clowns, be it on poles, online, etc, so people stop giving.
This is a group that seeds the Island with "families" .. a van drives various "workers" (typically "families" consisting of varying individuals day to day) usually comprised of a woman and several young children (though the makeup varies) and drops them off through out the metro area. They typically have a cardboard sign that says they've been laid off and need money for food and rent or some variation of the same. This ruse is built on the same scam that the Roma gypsies have been perpetrating in Europe for years [URL="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2051482/Child-beggars-young-making-100-000-year-gypsy-gangs.html"]Child beggars as young as four making £100,000 a year each for gypsy gangs | Mail Online[/URL]
This is a highly organized gang of criminals. If you see them you shouldn’t encourage them but should instead report them to the police for solicitation and child exploitation
If Newsday was to do a story on these people , it would probably be a sugar-coated , heart-string tugging , load of gibberish about the plight of Long Island's homeless and the high unemployment rate.
absolutely.
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