Do you think that this was a scam?

Okay, I’ve been in Washington DC for the past few days on a school trip. However, when we were eating lunch outside of the Air and Space Museum, a man approached our school group and asked for donations to a “homeless charity”. He told us that we would get a free newspaper if we donated. (By the way, the teachers didn’t notice any of this while it was going on) Out of guilt, I gave him two dollars and got the paper. Here’s why I think it may have been a scam. Apparently, in the museum, there were free newspapers… The kind that he gave us. He also told another group of students that he was working for a soup kitchen, not a homeless shelter. I think that the final bit of evidence was when a suspicious student asked him what charity he was working for, and he said “some”.

What do you think? Did I give two dollars to a shelter/soup kitchen, or did I give two dollars to a con artist who takes advantage of children?