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Originally Posted by Wormius
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.
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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.