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    Stopped A Scammer!

    I'm at my register ringing in 2 girls that are 19ish, at noon, a busy time. Scam Woman, known as SW, approaches them, waving a merchandise return card.

    SW: "Excuse me? Could you help me out? I have this gift card and they won't let me get my prescription at the pharmacy with it. Can I give you this card while you give me the cash so I can buy them? Please?"

    2Gs: " Um..."

    Me: *mouths "no no no no no" and makes hand gestures indicating no*

    2Gs " Um...no. Sorry?"

    SW: "*sigh*"

    Me: "LP Guy, call the front please?"

    LP: *ring ring* "sup?"

    I give a name and description of the woman, and LP guy, as well as other LP guy who's coming in to help us fix our cameras. They go outside and talk to SW and her boyfriend. The prescription is legitimate, they tell LP guys, for antibiotics.

    LP Guy 2 talks to Pharmacist. Legitimate prescription, but for narcotics. Interesting fact: In NH, you are not required to take IDs for narcotics, but Aid of Rite does anyway. So her information is on file.

    Then Manager A tells me this: Boyfriend of SW was in returning things for store credit, adding up to about $10. He turns around and buy $5 worth of junk food, leaving $5 on the card. The particular prescription she wants? More than $5.
    Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.-Winston Churchill
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    Whoo hoo!! Good for you ralerin.

    They say that God only gives us what we can handle. Apparently, God thinks I'm a bad ass.

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    • #3
      Way to go!!! What happened to the scammers? Arrested...banned, what?
      I'm trying to see things from your point of view, but I can't get my head that far up my keister!

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      • #4
        Neither one. They didn't do anything illegal or bannable so they weren't arrested or banned. SW later came in my line for an iced tea, which I had to price check. As I'm leaving, I see LP1 coming down the aisle and I say "she's at my register!" He watched her until she left.
        Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.-Winston Churchill

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        • #5
          Quoth ralerin View Post
          Neither one. They didn't do anything illegal or bannable so they weren't arrested or banned. SW later came in my line for an iced tea, which I had to price check. As I'm leaving, I see LP1 coming down the aisle and I say "she's at my register!" He watched her until she left.
          Attempted fraud is not a crime?

          SW was going to "sell" a $10 card that was worth only $5. That's fraud.
          They say that God only gives us what we can handle. Apparently, God thinks I'm a bad ass.

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          • #6
            Quoth Panacea View Post
            Attempted fraud is not a crime?
            It'd be up to LP and corporate to pursue it. And so long as nothing left the store that wasn't supposed to Rank Aid won't take legal action. Of course if the cashier had gone ahead with it and gave that woman the money, she'd be tossed on her ass so hard her grandkids would have the burn marks, but fortunately ralerin was there.

            But don't worry. These idiots will likely pull something with the wrong person on the wrong day and they won't be at it for long.

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            • #7
              They do seem like professional scammers. Perhaps they have a drug addiction? That does tend to generate it.
              Customers should always be served . . . to the nearest great white.

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              • #8
                Quoth NateTheChops View Post
                Of course if the cashier had gone ahead with it and gave that woman the money, she'd be tossed on her ass so hard her grandkids would have the burn marks, but fortunately ralerin was there.
                If I read the OP right, I think ralerin was the cashier, and the scammer was attempting to sell the card to the customers for more than its actual usable value.
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                • #9
                  My bad. For some reason I thought there was another cashier.

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                  • #10
                    Kogarashi's right -- tho I'm fairly certain that you WERE right about the store throwing Ralerin under the bus if the card HAD been accepted.
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                    • #11
                      Quoth ralerin View Post
                      I'm at my register ringing in 2 girls that are 19ish, at noon, a busy time. Scam Woman, known as SW, approaches them, waving a merchandise return card.

                      SW: "Excuse me? Could you help me out? I have this gift card and they won't let me get my prescription at the pharmacy with it. Can I give you this card while you give me the cash so I can buy them? Please?"

                      Then Manager A tells me this: Boyfriend of SW was in returning things for store credit, adding up to about $10. He turns around and buy $5 worth of junk food, leaving $5 on the card. The particular prescription she wants? More than $5.

                      LP Guy 2 talks to Pharmacist. Legitimate prescription, but for narcotics. Interesting fact: In NH, you are not required to take IDs for narcotics, but Aid of Rite does anyway. So her information is on file.
                      No comments on this - info quoted to provide info for responses to other quotes.

                      Quoth NateTheChops View Post
                      It'd be up to LP and corporate to pursue it. And so long as nothing left the store that wasn't supposed to Rank Aid won't take legal action. Of course if the cashier had gone ahead with it and gave that woman the money, she'd be tossed on her ass so hard her grandkids would have the burn marks, but fortunately ralerin was there.
                      Even if the scam had succeeded, "Ritual Assistance" wouldn't have taken legal action. The scammer was trying to sell a partially-depleted card for full price to a couple CUSTOMERS. "Ritual Assistance" wouldn't have been out any money.

                      Quoth Kristev View Post
                      They do seem like professional scammers. Perhaps they have a drug addiction? That does tend to generate it.
                      Highly probable - note the nature of the prescription.
                      Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.

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                      • #12
                        Quoth ralerin View Post
                        Manager A tells me this: Boyfriend of SW was in returning things for store credit, adding up to about $10. He turns around and buy $5 worth of junk food, leaving $5 on the card. The particular prescription she wants? More than $5.
                        OK, maybe I'm just a suspicious so-and-so. But I used to work at Rong Aid many years ago.

                        Back then store policy was, returns without receipt got store credit. So we had scammers take stuff right out of the aisles, bring it up front, and then try and "return" it for credit. Fortunately for the company's bottom line, my front end manager was a right bastard and would throw these people out so fast they'd bounce twice in the parking lot.

                        So it just makes me wonder. Did Boyfriend of SW actually pay for the stuff he was returning...?

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