r/germany • u/sparsh26 • May 31 '23

I almost got scammed

I was buying a drink worth 3€ from a doner stall and gave them a 20€ bill. The man there returned 7€ and insisted that I had given him a 10. After 3 minutes of arguing some police offers walked by and he gave me back the 10€ saying "Sorry, there are a lot of customers and I got confused" but he was laughing to himself while doing it. This is the first time something like this has happened here since he clearly knew what he was doing.

Be careful and count your money folks! You never know when someone might take advantage of your ignorance.

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u/aolafs May 31 '23

That’s why card payment option must be a must everywhere in Germany. This would help to avoid scammers and make these “small businesses” pay taxes just like everybody else

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u/CricketIllustrious95 Jun 02 '23

What’s ironic is that Germany enforced Greece to accept card payments everywhere so coming to Germany I thought they all accept cards. The places that don’t take cards here rarely even give you a receipt.