Zone1 You Find a Wallet with Money and Credit Cards

[Zebra]

When I was in college, I found a wallet with about $600 in it on the Bumper Cars at an amusement park.
I immediately turned it in

Last summer, I was at a produce stand and saw a big roll of cash on the ground. I asked the teenaged clerk if it was hers.
She was very grateful

well done!

 

[Zebra]

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I do my best to return it all to its owner, just as I would hope my belongings to be returned to me if I lost them.


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same here!

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

What do you do?

Return it money and all?
Return it without the money and say that's how you found it?
Take the money and throw out the wallet with credit cards?
Take the money and try to use the credit cards?
Go one step further and steal their identity?

There was a time in my life where I would have taken the money and returned the wallet. Lied and said the money was gone.

There was NEVER a time in my life where I would use the credit cards. I suspect some would say "that's okay the credit card company won't make them pay for what I purchased".

Even worse if they use your debt card. Pure scum.

Identity thieves should be executed. Send a message to other people who would do this.

I had a college roommate once who found a phone back in the 90's. The person who lost it called him and he fucked with this person for days. Told them to meet him and then he would not show up. Talk to them on the phone. Infuriate them. He ended up being a real creep but boy was this an early sign. Sociopath for sure.

Also regarding ethics. I suppose if it's a rich looking person and just $100 or a poor looking grandmother who's carrying around her rent in this purse you just found.

What if you found $30,000? I have to be honest. I might be tempted to keep it. I know that's a scummy thing to do but I'm just being honest.

Why am I posting this? I'm watching "Scary People". Remember those con artists murdering bodybuilders in Miami back in the 80's? The Rock did a movie about these guys. Just horrible people. Do anything to make money.

I found a wallet once with over $600 in it ,credit cards, all the guys I D
It was an out-of-state tourist
Since I had his license I had his address I put in a box and mailed it to him...cash n all

 

[Jarlaxle]

Drop it in the mail. I won't contact the owner or involve the police because that could result in being accused of stealing it.

 

[Clipper]

I found a wallet a week ago today laying on the side of the road as I was walking my dog. How it got there I have no idea because the kid who it belonged to lived about 3 miles away. In any case I got his address from his licence, drove there & rang the doorbell. His mother answered & said he wasn't home & asked me to leave it in the mailbox & thanked me, which I did. There was no money in it, just the licence, a debit card & a credit card. The DOB on his licence said he was 18.

About 25 years ago I was boating & lost my wallet swimming.. A few days later I got a call from the Sate Police who informed me that the wallet had washed up on the beach, & an unidentified person found it & turned it in to them. Everything was intact, including about $100 in cash. I never found who it was that turned it in so I could thank them.