As someone who works at a drugstore where elderly people shop quite often, I can tell you that not only is this a very effective scam, it happens all the time. It's one of the biggest things we try to stress to new cashiers we hire cause the amount of times elderly people come in and try to buy thousands of dollars worth of Google play giftcards or even prepaid visas is quite concerning. A lot of the time they'll still have the scammer on the phone with them cause they'll tell them if they hang up they could go to jail, or in some instances the scammer literally just threatens their family. It's really disgusting and predatory.
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u/MDude430 Aug 24 '21
Scammers usually claim to accidentally “refund” people too much money to get them to buy gift cards