Atlanta Water Boys Rip-off Girl Out of $1,100

Atlanta’s native “water boys” strike once more! They are saying watch out for the youngsters who stroll across the metropolis promoting waters, Gatorade and different chilly drinks…particularly on a scorching summer time day. For many who is likely to be questioning what risk these so-called harmless younger males may probably pose, check out one girl who claimed she was conned out of over $1,000.

Tristen Richardson pulled her automobile to a cease when a bunch of water boys approached her automobile, asking if she wished to purchase a bottle of water from them. Like many of those victims, Richardson figured it could not damage to assist these Black boys hustling below the vicious Georgia solar.

However after realizing she did not have money on her to pay, she supplied to Money App them the $2 as an alternative…rookie mistake no. 1.

“He took the telephone. He was like, nah, let me simply, let me simply sort in the best [username],” Richardson stated based on Fox 5 Information. Now, this was one more rookie mistake. “When he gave the telephone again to me, and I despatched the fee, it was [for] $1,100,” she continued. The boys even labeled the transaction “for hire.”

After realizing she had simply bought arguably the world’s most costly water bottle, Richardson stated she was in complete shock. “My coronary heart sank as a result of I used to be like, oh my God, that is like a giant chunk of cash,” she continued.

The Atlanta water boys have constructed up fairly the repute within the metropolis. Most locals know to method the kids with excessive warning and to by no means hand them your telephone to switch cash… however you would be stunned simply how many individuals nonetheless fall sufferer to the well-known rip-off.

The identical week Richardson obtained conned, one other man filed a police report revealing the identical actual factor occurred to him on the actual… identical… intersection. “I hate to want dangerous on individuals, particularly Black boys as a result of a variety of occasions, they be needing our assist probably the most. However the truth that they only stole from me– a Black girl,” an emotional Richardson stated on TikTok after the incident.

Sadly, Richardson’s story is one in all dozens seen within the metropolis, however though the water boys get a nasty rep, a lot of them aren’t scamming individuals. As a substitute, they’re merely doing what they will to make a fast buck.

“Once we have been on the market on the nook, we have been getting labeled as one factor, and we weren’t on the market doing all of the unlawful issues, we have been making an attempt to make a authorized means,” Mekhai Wilson informed Fox 5 Information. He and two different teenagers reworked their informal water promoting hustle right into a full blown enterprise. Now, they promote their very own water below the LLC “Water Boyz within the Hood.” The corporate was even stamped by Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens.

Because the incident, Richardson stated she filed a police report and a fraud report. Money App informed her informed her she could not get her a refund, however the girl began a GoFundMe, which has helped cowl her loss.