Attempted in person fuel station scam
So me and my girlfriend were on our way home to Brisbane from Canberra, and we stopped at the Chinderah service station to get some dinner.
Long story short, we were parked in the parking bays right outside the front door for about 20 minutes. I backed out, and started to drive towards the exit. As I was driving, I noticed a car slowly backing out from another parking space. It looked like they weren’t going to give way to me so I stopped and let them back out. Once he backed out he stopped, effectively blocking me. He got out of his car and walked towards me. I rolled my window down to see what he wanted, and he immediately became quite hostile and said the following:
“What is this ticket you put on my car saying I have an outstanding/unpaid fuel balance, what are you trying to accuse us of stealing petrol?”
He then pointed to his car, to which I saw his (I’m assuming girlfriend) in the passenger window holding up a “ticket” as he was saying this. (If it were a real ticket, why not bring it to me lol). My mind immediately went “scam”.
In true Aussie style, I very loudly went off at him and said “Wtf are you going on about, f**k off d*ck head!” among some other things.
As soon as I shut him down he immediately walked off and shook his head as if to say “whatever don’t worry about it” but as he walked away he said “I’ve got your licence plate details”.
I drove off and made it home, and now I’m writing this.
It’s very obvious this was an attempted scam, but I cannot for the life of me work out what the scam was supposed to be. Was he going to threaten to call the cops or something and just ask me for some cash as “a quick settlement to avoid any drama” ?