What would you make of this?

[prettycrabbies]

We've just moved in, and have said hi and briefly chatted to one of our neighbours a couple of times. I'd say she's around 30's and lives with her primary age son. She's friendly enough.

She just came round and knocked on the door saying her internet banking is down and could she give me cash and have me transfer it to her cousin through my account, please?

My gut felt off, so I made my excuses. Partly because she has friends in and out of her house; and has a few in there at the moment, and doesn't know me at all - so if things were literally as she described, why ask me? Also why the urgency?

But the more I think about it, I can't work out what an alternative explanation would be? She wouldn't have been scamming me out of ££ if she was giving me the cash up front...?

So I need some equally cynical and suspicious vipers to help me theorise what she's up to, please?

Some sort of money laundering?

Paying him for drugs or something illegal but with a trail to her account. It sounds dodgy though so god you made excuses and if it’s not dodgy then I’d be wondering what the next favour was she was going to ask

could be counterfeit cash and as shops are not really taking cash now by the time a shop picked it up- it would be weeks ago and she would be able to say you couldn't tell it was her that gave you it.
She has stolen cash that she wants to get rid of.
Alternatively, could be something to do with getting hold of your bank account number. Most definitely dodgy though- at the very least she has terrible boundaries!

Hmm. She doesn't strike me as the criminal mastermind type. We've been watching the Ozarks so money laundering did occur to me 😂.

Maybe buying something dodgy without a trail to her account...that seems plausible.

I'm a bit sad about it tbh, I was hoping for some friendly neighbourly relationships but now I have this weird yuck feeling that she's tried something, but I don't know what and I have no real evidence!