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And yet two commissioners voted "no". Wanna guess who appointed them?
Some people are philosophically opposed to turning private companies into arms of federal law enforcement agencies. That doesn't mean they are in favor of fraud.
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There was actually a news article with the exact scenario. I showed it to my daughter at the counter as a way to get her to slow down and think.
Can you post a link to the article? I’m having a hard time understanding the scam based on your comment.
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> An auditor over the course of 2 hours convinced her An auditor, or a voice on a phone?
Hi it’s me your irs tax audioter accounter cto manager I need you to buy many Amex gift cards and send me the codes so I can surprise the Ukrainians with them. Sincerely, totally honest guy.
But he never stopped taking and never let her put phone down. Never gave her a moment to think.
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There was actually a news article with the exact scenario. I showed it to my daughter at the counter as a way to get her to slow down and think.
Can you post a link to the article? I’m having a hard time understanding the scam based on your comment.
They convinced the daughter to take cash (from the register? from the safe?) to another store and almost convinced her send it to a green dot card (some kind of debit card?).
Related to this, I do not understand how Green Dot is still in business. I worked for a fintech, and literally every single attempted transaction we got from a Green Dot card was fraud. We wrote special logic in the code that specifically required all Green Dot transactions to get a manual review - I can't remember if we switched this to just outright reject, because I'm not exaggerating when I say we never got a val…
Once as a contractor in the early 2000s I did a few months at tracfone. While not scamming people directly they definitely knew a lot of their business was people needing phones for shady stuff.
Related to this, I do not understand how Green Dot is still in business. I worked for a fintech, and literally every single attempted transaction we got from a Green Dot card was fraud. We wrote special logic in the code that specifically required all Green Dot transactions to get a manual review - I can't remember if we switched this to just outright reject, because I'm not exaggerating when I say we never got a val…
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And yet two commissioners voted "no". Wanna guess who appointed them?
Some people are philosophically opposed to turning private companies into arms of federal law enforcement agencies. That doesn't mean they are in favor of fraud.
There are Republican AGs going after fraud cases all the time, you just don't read about it in national news.
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And yet two commissioners voted "no". Wanna guess who appointed them?
Some people are philosophically opposed to turning private companies into arms of federal law enforcement agencies. That doesn't mean they are in favor of fraud.
> opposed to turning private companies into arms of federal law enforcement agencies.
does not explain this policy
> “If you suspect fraud, complete the transaction.”
If there is suspicion of fraud and yet still direct your employees complete the transaction, sure, maybe you're not literally in favor of fraud. But it does mean that you don't care if there's fraud. There's little daylight between not caring about fraud and being in favor of it at Walmart's scale.
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Some people are philosophically opposed to turning private companies into arms of federal law enforcement agencies. That doesn't mean they are in favor of fraud.
There are people philosophically opposed to laws against facilitating fraud? In many cases, the fraudsters hired on with Walmart and the company profited from these transfers.
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So she still took thousands in cash out the door with her? It sounds like she went right back to work and put it back, but if anyone found out she had taken that money off the property, I doubt she would keep her job. I would recommend not sharing this story with anyone else.
She immediately called her boss. She didn’t get fired. Boss was initially sympathetic. But she lost her promotion. Then had hours cut. So she had to leave.