I think we got scammed?

So Shantigram ke Shoppers plaza mai a Guy approached me and my dad asking if we spoke marathi and my dad answered affirmative.

Then he gave a story that his and another family was brought here by someone promising work but the person who told them He’d give them work fled and some other dude told em to wait there till he brought them food.

So there were 7 something people with suitcases and my dad gave them 5k

Them i noticed that they said they were from yavatmal or somewhere nearby. We dont have that pune/mumbai/solapur nanded and all wala accent so im assuming they picked up on that?

I remember reading something similar on this sub a while back so i told my dad but he said what if tjey actually needed help and it would keep bugging him that he didn’t help someone in need. Then rn I looked this up again in tjis sub and god so many posts on this. :’) Well anyways be careful yall.