Impersonator pretends to be relative in urgent need of money. A Russian student named Valentin Mikhaylin pretends to need financial assistance to heat his apartment, buy food, and provide medical care for his ailing mother. Stranger pretends to need cabfare to get to a hospital or money to buy gasoline or baby formula.

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