Jennifer Hart, or whatever her name is, is back. She got me at 15th and K St NW. Car accident, moved from Atlanta, has cancer, needs cab fare to get back to Charles County, MD to pick up her daughter from daycare. Cries and shakes and tells you she'll get you money back next day. Feel like an idiot. I should know better. If you get caught, call the MPD Financial Crimes Unit at (202) 727-4159.
"Jennifer Hart" is maybe late 40's, heavy set (size 18 to 20), perhaps 5'6" tall. Hair is pulled up onto head in a chignon, and she is using a cane at this point. If she approaches, tell her you will help her find a police office. Don't get suckered like me.
The exact same thing just happened to me, almost verbatim, to the other stories on here: Jessica Mathews, pregnant and alone in the city because she had just come here from Atlanta, approached me for cab money to help her get home to LaPlata to get her daughter after she had been in an accident. I gave her more than I would like to admit, but something in me was suspicious, and I should have listened to that. I called the number she gave, and it just rang. That's when I Googled and found this board. I called Metro PD to report it, and was told, essentially, too bad, so sad, you're too nice and she didn't break any laws. I made a big deal with the lady about how it was Christmas and time to help others, I guess hoping to appeal to a conscience if she was a scammer...guess there isn't a conscience there. I actually feel sick.
Just for the record, it just happened to me as well. I even helped her into a cab when she cried about her daughter. I probably need the money more than she does, after reading these other experiences. This woman needs to be apprehended before she hits more gullible fools like myself. And we should all form a support group.
Sad to say, I got scammed last week.
Someone needs to put and end to this soon.
I wish I had seen this site earlier.
No more Mr. Nice Guy, I've been burned 2x now.
Just got scammed for $180 last night. Exact same thing. Feel like such an idiot...I'm a college student who can't really afford it.
There doesn't seem to be much one can do...I reported it to the cops. Someone really does need to stop this.
Saw her at Metro Center two nights ago at about 8:45 pm- she needed $69 cab fare to get to Maryland, she had just been in a car accident and needed to pick up her daughter. She said her Mom was a Metro cop, and she would pay me back on Monday at noon, near the law office where she just started working after moving here from Atlanta. She was well-dressed, wore her straight hair in a small bun, had a cane, wore a white plastic rosary and was crying for 20 minutes while she went on about how she was a Christian woman and was just hoping she could do something like this for someone else one day. She even hugged me. What an evil and sick woman to manipulate and take advantage of people in this way. I will definitely be reporting this to the police.