Complaint Review: Marco Rossi

I was walking in downtown San Antonio when a man (a passenger, he was with another person driving a silver VW SUV) with a heavy accent asked me if I was Italian.  I said I was not, then he asked if I spoke Spanish; I did, so they pulled over to the side of the road and we started talking in spanish.  He said he was in town for a fashion show, had these 4 nice leather coats and that i looked like a medium size.  He showed me the coats, said they were genuine leather jackets from the Armani Emporium collection, even took a lighter to 2 of them to show that they would not burn. He said he was on his way to the airport and was not going to pay export taxes on them, that he would like to give them to me but that they were worth thousands, and that he didn't just want to throw them out.  I said no, it's ok, I don't have thousdands of dollars to spend on these. Then he said just take them, but if I could offer him anything that he would take it. I honestly thought this man was really who he said he was and that his situation was real; i offered him $300 but that I had to go to an ATM; he offered a ride, but I said no, there's an ATM at this Walgreens across the street.  We walked to walgreens, I pulled out $300 cash, gave him the money, he gave me the coats, and a business card, said his name was Marco Rossi (which i later googled is the name of an Italian soccer playr) and off we went our seperate ways.  When I got back to the office (I work downtown), I googled the value of these coats to see if they were worth what he said they were; that's when I found many news stories about these same kinds of scams where people pretend to be travelers with expensive, geniune coats that they want to "give" away.