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The original was posted on /r/scams by /u/Exotic-Virus-3385 on 2025-10-25 01:33:15+00:00.

Hello everyone! 💖

I got scammed at work (even though it was just ~ 100€ and I didn’t get in any trouble). And I feel SO stupid because I knew it was a scam!

Let me explain, a man comes to buy some stockings that cost 5,99 he holds up a 100 then says he has a 1 and drops it, I pick it up for him. I ready the return-cash for when he will hand over the 100 but nothing!!!..

So I say: “Sir where is the 100€ bill?” And he says he gave it to me. I deep down knew he didn’t (since I glanced to the scan machine where we are supposed to put the bills, unused for 5+ minutes and I usuakly don’t miss scans) so I tell him sorry, the manager will need to count the cash desk if he insists he gave it to me.

I call the manager but the manager couldn’t come downstairs to count the cash desk. (She was busy with many returns) So I muster him for a short while and hand him the money because I doubted myself and the kids behind were stressing me out, I gazed into his wallet too, and didn’t see the 100, so I concluded I somehow must have messed up and he must have given it to me.

The manager comes downstairs many minutes later, and it turned out he really scammed me because I was lacking the exact sum. She was very friendly and I only had to fill out a form that explained it, it was my first real mistake after more than 3 years of working here and I feel so STUPID because usually I am a person with a lot of backbone. And we couldn’t even get a hold of the security footage because apparently our store doesn’t save the footage, this really hurt my feeling of justice.

That’s the short version. And now I don’t know how to deal with this intense stupidity I feel. I have always been someone who has prided herself with a big sense of justice and a good feeling of when someone is suspicious or harmful in any type of way. Now I feel such shame for not acting onto my gut feeling and even having to bother the manager because of it.

Thank you for reading, it means a lot. Maybe someone else had a similar experience? 😔