Quote:
Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube
Stores are wise to it now -- the wife of a co-worker almost got duped in to this a couple years ago but was stopped by the teller at London Drugs. Like if someone was buying ten or more gift cards or something, their policy was to check for the scam and inform the person.
Probably why they had this girl running around to lots of different stores and kept her on the line for 4+ hours. Kept it to 5 gift cards per store or whatever so that the store wouldn't be tipped off and stop her.
|
I've seen signs at Safeway and London Drugs saying "if you've been asked by someone to buy gift cards to pay a fine, it's a scam"