Bonnie McGregor didn't mind giving a man money when he approached her car claiming he had been mugged and needed to get home.
But she doubts she'll ever give cash to a stranger again after the same man made a similar move the following night.
The Titirangi resident was in a takeaway drive-through outside LynnMall at about 6.30pm last Tuesday with her one-year-old son Presley sitting in the back seat when a man knocked on her window.
"He told me he'd been mugged and I told him to go and report it to the police but he said there was no point because the culprit had already run away.
"I believed him anyway because he was speaking very fast like he was distressed and he was quite well dressed."
McGregor says the man looked to be in his 40s and of Indian descent, dressed in cream coloured trousers and a windbreaker jacket.
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