Man Walked Into Walmart With $2300 But Cashier Would Not Let Him Spend It

Jun 28, 2019 by apost team

Technology has helped improve our lives in so many different ways, but not all the changes brought into our lives are good ones. The internet has caused a rise in the number of scammers and con artists who target well-meaning people. Scammers will often go after older people who have a harder time keeping track of all the new opportunities for fraud that the internet has created.

The amount of information available online now allows scammers to learn a lot about their potential victims. Senior citizens are less likely to realize just how much information is available online for those who know where to look. Using this information, scammers will often create believable lies about a potential victim's family being in trouble.

They prey on kind-hearted individuals who just want to protect their family. Cecil Rodgers was one of those people who got caught up in a scammer's web of lies.

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Cecil got a call around Christmas time from a scammer pretending to be his eldest grandson. The scammer said that he had been jailed for causing a car accident. He said that he needed $2,300 in order to be released on bail. Cecil, who was worried about his grandson, agreed to make the transfer. The scammer told him not to tell anyone else about the transaction. Cecil dutifully went to Walmart to make a store-to-store transfer.

Luckily for Cecil, Audrella Taylor was working on his check-out lane at the time. In her five years as a cashier at Walmart, Audrella had encountered a lot of people in similar situations and had learned the warning signs of fraud. When Cecil told her the full story she recognized that it was a scam and refused to complete the transaction.

She told Cecil to call the rest of his family to make sure it really happened. Cecil followed her advice and found out that it was in fact a scam.

Audrella is a real hero for stopping the incident. The internet has caused a dramatic increase in the number of scams and how believable these scams are. Our parents and grandparents are at a higher risk to be targeted for scams.

Watch what Cecil had to say about the incident:

It is important that we teach older people in our life about the warning signs for scams. Talk to your older loved ones about this story in order to make sure that they do not fall for one of these scams.