When Saja Kilani was stopped by a young man in downtown Toronto asking for her help this weekend, she says it was her instinct to help the boy.
“He seemed very desperate and he looked young,” Kilani told CTV News Toronto Tuesday.
Kilani, an actress and model living in Toronto, says she was walking along Bay Street and Yorkville Avenue on Oct. 16 when a boy who appeared around 15 years old stopped her and asked if she could pay for his taxi fare with a card. She says he informed her the cab company only took cards, and that all he had was cash.
“He had the cash on him,” Kilani told CTV News Toronto. “It seemed like a fair situation.”
“And I’d want someone to help me if it were me,” she added.
So, Kilani says she agreed to help the boy and headed to the cab to make the payment.
According to Kilani, the driver asked if she had a card before setting up the transaction on his machine. When she handed her card to the driver, she says the young boy immediately began “fidgeting” and “trying to distract her.”
Within the confusion, Kilani noticed something awry.
@sajakilani Be careful guys!!!
#fyp
#toronto
♬ original sound – saja
“I could see from the corner of my eye that he placed my card between his legs and he pretended to work the machine,” she said.
The driver returned the machine, card inserted, and Kilani made the payment, but when she pulled the card out, she says she noticed someone else’s…
