Lisa’s bad day

Part 1 : ( 0.00 - 0.24) Predict: How do you think Lisa’s bag got stolen?

Listen again and answer the questions:

1. Where was Lisa?

2. What did the couple ask her to do?
3. What happened while she was distracted?

Part 2 ( 0.24 - 0.45) Predict: What did she do next?

Listen again and answer the questions:

1. Who did she speak to?

2. What did the man ask her?
3. What did the man do?

Predict: What will happen next? What would you do? Would you trust the guy?

Listen again and answer the questions:

1. How was Lisa feeling?

2. Why did Lisa think the phone number was genuine?
3. What did the woman ask Lisa to do?

Predict: What do you think will happen next?

Listen again and answer the questions:

1. Why does Jeff say it’s a double scam?

2. How will the man get Lisa’s PIN number?

Part 5 Predict: Who do you think stole the bag? Why?

Listen again and answer the questions:

1. Why doesn’t she think it was the couple?

2. Who does she think stole the bag?
3. What does she think happened to the bag after it was stolen?

Discussion (with Eli)

1. What is your opinion of Lisa? Why did she fall for the scam?
2. What do you think of the scam? Would you fall for it?
3. What would you do in this situation?
4. Have any of your friends or family been scammed?
5. Have you ever been scammed?
6. What scams have you heard about in the news?
Transcript
Lisa: So what happened was, I was sitting in a café and this young couple – they looked like tourists –
_________________________________________________. And I took the photo, they thanked me
and left and then I looked at my seat and realised my handbag ___________________, with my
mobile, wallet, credit card, keys everything.

Jeff: No! What did you do?

Lisa: Well, there was a guy on the next table and he saw I was really upset and I explained about the
bag and ____________________________________________________________ and he said he
worked for that bank and gave me a phone number and let me use his mobile to phone them and
stop my credit card.

Jeff: And you believed him?

Lisa: Yeah, I mean I was in a real panic. I was really grateful for his help. Anyway, I phoned the
number and talked to a woman from “the bank” and gave her my name and address and credit card
number.

Jeff: She sounded genuine?

Lisa: Yeah, completely. I could hear the sounds of the call centre behind her. And she asked me to
key in my PIN on the phone and she said they’d stop my card.

Jeff: Wow. So it was a double scam. They got your bag and your bank account details.

Lisa: Yeah, unfortunately. Of course, the guy could get my PIN from his phone.

Jeff: So who actually took your bag?

Lisa: Well, ___________________________________________ when I wasn’t looking.

Jeff: Right.

Lisa: So __________________________________________the young couple because I was looking

at them all the time I was taking the photo. Their job was just to distract me.

Jeff: Was it the guy at the next table, then?

Lisa: I think so. ________________________________________my bag when I wasn’t looking. Then

he _____________________________________________in his case or _______________________

______________________________ to another member of the gang.

Jeff: And then he gave you a fake number.

Lisa: Yeah, and they must have used a recording of a call centre so that it sounded like the real bank.