We tell them that nowadays, there are people out there who will take advantage of them. There have been four pigeon drop scams reported here in the past two months. Two of those occurred during the last week of October. Raymond Lara said. He added that temptation and greed are the underlying factors leading people to fall for the scams.
Nobody gives somebody else a lot of money for nothing.
Pigeon drops are committed in person. There are no exact local or national figures on how many people fall prey to pigeon drops because many victims do not report them to police, and con artists move from city to city. The con artist performing the pigeon drop usually chooses his victim carefully, with victims over 50 especially targeted. Con artists usually work in groups of two or three and are usually not of the same race or gender. Many of those who become victims are exiting or returning to their cars alone at food stores and shopping malls.