Con Man In KLCC? Or Not?

A tall guy with yellow teeth, clothed fully in black, carrying a bagpack on his shoulders and holding a plastic bag that is filled with newspapers and a book approached SlowCatchUpKuan, KidCheng and I while we were for the train to arrive in the KLCC station. He asked in Mandarin if we are locals because he "overheard" that were speaking in Cantonese to each other and he then eventually told us the rotten luck story that he encountered.

This is his story :-
He is a Singaporean, who hasn't been visiting Malaysia for six long years. He was careless enough to not take care of his small black bag that contains all his important documents including passport, identity card and his wallet. He complained that Malaysian policemen were no help to a foreigner like him. A police report on his lost was made and was charged RM4 for the whole procedure. He was frustrated by this because his wallet was stolen and he doesn't even have a penny to make a call back home. He then tried to ask around for directions to the train station that could take him back to Singapore but different people have been telling him different ways. As usual, a lot don't know the way also won't admit wan! He had been walking for 3 hours till he met a girl who is kind enough to buy him an LRT ticket to KLCC station. He was telling us how grateful he was that he does not have to walk the distance that is as long as 6 LRT stations. But on the other hand, he was basically criticizing about the unkind people that he met. He hoped that he could tag along because we were heading to the same station. He said that his brother will be coming down from Singapore and asked him to wait in KFC. He reconfirmed a few times with us whether there is any KFC in KL Sentral to make sure he got it right. When he reached, he straight point to the KFC and happily thanked us!



We don't feel right leaving him alone with no money to eat, so we walked back to find him to offer him RM10. It felt so right at first to do that. But we get suspicious as the more we think! He said (in Mandarin), "I wanted to ask for some coins to make some calls just now but I dare not. Thank you! How should I repay you? I go back Singapore I donate this money to charity, ok?" Ok, this is the part that got us thinking. Sounded so fake! Or maybe he was sincere. Only god knows.

Why we got suspicious on his honesty? Well, first of all his Mandarin doesn't have the Singaporean slang like those in the dramas and we can't figure out why would anyone travel carrying a plastic full of newspapers. Now I suspect he's from China! He managed to point out the location of KFC even before I could ask SlowCatchUpKuan where it is. And from where we stood, KFC is kind of hidden from our sights. What do you think eh? Are we stupid? Did he just cheat us?!

Hmm.. Maybe we were analysing too much. Maybe he was sincere about donating our money to the charity. Well, you can't blame us for being suspicious. There are too many con men around nowadays, which makes it so difficult to differentiate. It's just a small amount of money but I just hope we really did help a person in need, instead of being cheated.

p.s: KidCheng must still be thinking about this in her sleep! She said something about KTM!! Haha!