A manager at an Iowa Dollar General store steps in to save an 85-year-old customer from being scammed. Earlier this week, an elderly woman came into the Dollar General in Winterset, Iowa to buy a $500 gift card. She looked really worried and was on the phone in the checkout line and this raised the suspicions of store manager Allysa Taylor.
She asked the woman if she was buying the gift card for the person on the phone and the woman whispered, “yes.” Then Taylor asked her if she knew the person and she said, “no, but I’m not supposed to tell you.” The manager had been trained for just such an event and got on the elderly customer’s phone, but the scammer hung up.
Police responded to the store and discovered that the woman had been on the phone with the scammer for two hours. She was told that she needed to send them $500 to collect a $2.5-million prize. Winterset Police Chief Ken Burk praised Taylor’s keen eye, but she says it’s just part of the job. “I’m grateful that I was able to help her,” she says.
Source: KCCI