Most of the scams here are Internet based so if this isn't appropriate let me know.
My dad, who's 75, was on a rare trip into town yesterday and decided to have a pint and read the paper in a pub he used to go into when young (off Grafton St). Anyway, there was only one other person in the pub and he appeared very distressed as he purported to be a tourist who couldn't contact his friend to pick him up as he had no phone to call him. He had a full pint of Guinness, and said he'd never had a pint before. So he asked if my dad could lend him his, and my dad noticing that the guy was drinking the pint extra quick (and if it was your first pint I'd assume you couldn't!) said he didn't have one. He just felt there was something not quite right. And the guy left. Anyway the barman (who had been upstairs) came down and when my dad told him the story described the guy to a tee. Turns out he's a scam artist all over pubs, posing as a lost American tourist, asks for your phone, uses it in front of you - but the number won't connect, because what he's actually getting is your IMEI number to clone the phone and access your bank records etc. But you feel like a good helpful person, your phone is visible at all times and you get it back.
My dad, who's 75, was on a rare trip into town yesterday and decided to have a pint and read the paper in a pub he used to go into when young (off Grafton St). Anyway, there was only one other person in the pub and he appeared very distressed as he purported to be a tourist who couldn't contact his friend to pick him up as he had no phone to call him. He had a full pint of Guinness, and said he'd never had a pint before. So he asked if my dad could lend him his, and my dad noticing that the guy was drinking the pint extra quick (and if it was your first pint I'd assume you couldn't!) said he didn't have one. He just felt there was something not quite right. And the guy left. Anyway the barman (who had been upstairs) came down and when my dad told him the story described the guy to a tee. Turns out he's a scam artist all over pubs, posing as a lost American tourist, asks for your phone, uses it in front of you - but the number won't connect, because what he's actually getting is your IMEI number to clone the phone and access your bank records etc. But you feel like a good helpful person, your phone is visible at all times and you get it back.