Thanks to some sharp employees at a Nanaimo Shoppers Drug Mart an elderly woman avoided losing 4,000 dollars in a scam.
The woman, in her 80’s, came into the store wanting to purchase 4,000 dollars in gaming cards, called “Steam Cards”, but the clerk sensed the woman was being duped.
She asked the elderly woman if that could be the case, but the woman responded that she knew of the ITunes scam, this wasn’t it, and she was going to the local Walmart to get the cards if she couldn’t get them at Shoppers.
She had been under the impression she got a call from her son who needed the money to get out of financial difficulty.
The womans’ intentions were reported to police who alerted Walmart and when the woman arrived, she was, again prevented from making the purchase.
It wasn’t until the dispatch centre, and an officer with the Nanaimo RCMP followed up with the victim that she realized she was being scammed.
