How many of us have been scammed? Probably every kindhearted soul out there! Thanks for sharing your resolutions to this problem, they're helpful. LOL I just have to share this story because now it's very funny! My late husband and I were scammed quite a few times while he was a pastor, but this one time stands out as the most outrageous of all time. This man met Luke (my late husband) in a grocery store parking lot and gave him this long story about his children needing food and needing a deposit to get a place to live. So, Luke gave him some money knowing there was a high possibility the man was insincere, but felt he was supposed to be generous anyway just in case there really were hungry kids. So the next Sunday DURING THE CHURCH SERVICE this man walks up onto the stage and tells the whole church that we gave him money! He goes on to say that he's a movie producer and just got signed on in Hollywood and will be making a million dollars next month and he's going to re-pay us with so much money that we will be glad we helped him. He then proceeded to try and scam our congregation for MORE MONEY because he needed some cash to hold him over until the filming started. My goodness! It was so hard to get him off the stage! And then, after he left every made a big deal about asking if we were ok financially since we gave him money. (They all knew the pastor salary wasn't very much and we had 3 small children) Hahahaha I was embarrassed for days! But I find it hilarious now. And, as a very important side note, God always provided for us. We never struggled financially.