*Note: I don't know for certain that this guy was trying to scam the church, I'm just suspicious because of the differences between his voicemail message and my actual phone conversation with him*
Sometime on Tuesday (after the office closed), "Keith" had called asking to speak to the pastor - said he was a single dad with three kids, they were staying at a motel because they'd just lost their home, and he wanted to know if we helped people out with food boxes. I didn't receive his voicemail until I got into the office on Wednesday morning, and wasn't sure how to respond as we have very little in our food pantry at the moment.......but I figured I should call him back anyhow and see what exactly he neeed in the way of food.
However, when I got "Keith" on the phone, his request for assistance changed over to seeming more concerned with cash assistance than food boxes. I explained that we didn't have the resources to help people out financially, but we do have a small, "emergency only" food pantry. (unfortunately, we have to emphasize the last part because of problems with repeat "customers")
Anyhow, I thought it was really strange that "Keith" had initially seemed concerned with help with food, but lost interest in talking to me further once I told him that we were unable to provide cash assistance.
Sometime on Tuesday (after the office closed), "Keith" had called asking to speak to the pastor - said he was a single dad with three kids, they were staying at a motel because they'd just lost their home, and he wanted to know if we helped people out with food boxes. I didn't receive his voicemail until I got into the office on Wednesday morning, and wasn't sure how to respond as we have very little in our food pantry at the moment.......but I figured I should call him back anyhow and see what exactly he neeed in the way of food.
However, when I got "Keith" on the phone, his request for assistance changed over to seeming more concerned with cash assistance than food boxes. I explained that we didn't have the resources to help people out financially, but we do have a small, "emergency only" food pantry. (unfortunately, we have to emphasize the last part because of problems with repeat "customers")
Anyhow, I thought it was really strange that "Keith" had initially seemed concerned with help with food, but lost interest in talking to me further once I told him that we were unable to provide cash assistance.
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