US store clerk recognises woman being scammed, intervenes

While she was on the phone with the conman and preparing to check out, the clerk wrote, ‘Are you being scammed?’ on a piece of paper. — Photo by Simon Kadula on Unsplash

A woman was talked into giving her bank account information to someone pretending to be from an electronics store, a scam that was discovered after a metro Detroit store clerk paused her effort to buy gift cards.

The attempted scam of the Downriver woman was a duplicitous two-step effort, with the scammer acting as if he was helping prevent a scam.