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Originally Posted by puckedoff
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...raud-1.5378917
I thought only old people fell for these scams. Takes a lot of guts to admit that you thought the RCMP would tell you to take cash out from your bank account and go buy iTunes gift cards. Millenials. Sheesh.
Edit: And I know she is a millenial because her 'life savings' was $4,000.
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Although this wasn't a massive amount of money, I don't think it would hurt (especially for older people and people who don't have the experience to ascertain that this is a scam) to double check whether somebody buying a couple of grand worth of gift cards isn't being manipulated to do it.
It would probably make for some feel-good story that Walmart or Superstore saved some elderly person from making a big mistake.