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Possible scam? I had a girl come up to me at wal-mart in anchorage yesterday. She said she needed a couple of bucks to buy some chicken or something. I told her I didn't have any cash. She asked if I was paying with card, I said yes. She said well can you take my 3 dollars and buy it with your card, and I said... I'm not going to do that. She looked super frustrated and walked off. I have no idea if that was a scam, but I've already had the distressed woman in parking lot scam tried to pull on me here. There is also a ridiculous amount of homeless people in Anchorage.
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Aug 24, 2016 00:05
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Maybe. She wasn't holding any chicken. Also, this was way by the back of the store. I was looking at Hawaiian punch drink mixers. This is also the only wal-mart that I have ever seen that has 1. A complete separate section for alcohol, with their own cashier and security gates. 2. Someone checking EVERY SINGLE receipt as you walk out the door.
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Aug 24, 2016 17:02
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Last week I was going through airport security when a middle-aged woman stopped the guy behind me in the X-ray line with some story that her daughter was going off to college for the first time and she forgot her carry-on and she's just on the other side of security and, could you take this suitcase through and give it to her? Honestly I didn't stick around long enough to find out what happened. I don't know if that's a scam, but jesus is that risky. No officer, this carryon full of drugs isn't mine! A random woman gave it to me!
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Aug 27, 2016 15:14
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My friend just had an attempted phishing attempt at his work. Someone registered a super similar name to his company and sent him an email from the "CEO" and asked if they could go pick up something at the store. My friend has to do this occasionally for things like lunches or bagels for meetings and stuff. So he said, okay what do you need? And they replied 1000 dollars in itunes gift cards and they needed the number scanned in and sent to them.  my friend obviously didn't fall for that part.
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Aug 10, 2018 11:57
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Jesus, I just spent like an hour on the phone with my bank. Somehow my debit card was cloned, and I guess they got the PIN because it was used a few states away at an ATM. My bank blocked all activity after the first 400 transaction went through. The weird thing is... It was a card that I literally haven't used in months. It was my backup card for traveling. I guess they even called my bank to try to get them to up the limit. No idea if they succeeded or not, but they locked down my entire account.
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Sep 27, 2018 00:53
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Mister Kingdom posted:I got a call from my bank the other day questioning a potential charge. Someone was trying to use my debit card in another state at a gas station. It was a $1 hold. They blocked the transaction and canceled the card. I have to wonder if the gas station got ripped off or not? A lot of the time, it seems they try to do a small charge, then a big charge. So a gas station with a pump is an easy way to test a card.
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