If two women approach you in Target just to chitchat and get your number, its a scam

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think people on this forum are either very sheltered or just don't realize how much human trafficking and crime actually occurs in this area.

Nobody is trafficking adult women in the laundry detergent aisle at target

This is absolutely hysterical. I mean how much money does a mouthy middle aged hausfrau command on the human trafficking circuit these days anyway?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think people on this forum are either very sheltered or just don't realize how much human trafficking and crime actually occurs in this area.

Nobody is trafficking adult women in the laundry detergent aisle at target

This is absolutely hysterical. I mean how much money does a mouthy middle aged hausfrau command on the human trafficking circuit these days anyway?

So funny!! Hope this happens to you some day. Hope they rob you blind, PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not one specific threat or scam. It's a little odd for one person to randomly ask you about bible verses or phone number in Target, and doubly so for two people to. Whenever you've got a second person involved, it makes many of us jump to the conclusion that one person is there as a distraction while the other does something shady--steal a wallet, scan your credit cards from your purse using RFID, whatever. The OP encountered variations of this scenario multiple times, which makes her think it's a something hinky.

If I’m a church lady I’m absolutely bringing backup when I go out to proselytize. If it’s good enough for the mormon guys who canvas my hood, somehow know my name and use it to greet me in a creepily familiar way, and trample my tulips with their bikes it’s good enough for the little Black lady be the little Asian lady.

Come to think of it… maybe those to little creeper Mormon poseurs were actually casing my house and I did catch the short one ogling my mom boobies. I’m calling the police. Little box dogs prob in cahoots with the airdropping human traffickers gangs of Mosaic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not one specific threat or scam. It's a little odd for one person to randomly ask you about bible verses or phone number in Target, and doubly so for two people to. Whenever you've got a second person involved, it makes many of us jump to the conclusion that one person is there as a distraction while the other does something shady--steal a wallet, scan your credit cards from your purse using RFID, whatever. The OP encountered variations of this scenario multiple times, which makes her think it's a something hinky.

If I’m a church lady I’m absolutely bringing backup when I go out to proselytize. If it’s good enough for the mormon guys who canvas my hood, somehow know my name and use it to greet me in a creepily familiar way, and trample my tulips with their bikes it’s good enough for the little Black lady be the little Asian lady.

Come to think of it… maybe those to little creeper Mormon poseurs were actually casing my house and I did catch the short one ogling my mom boobies. I’m calling the police. Little box dogs prob in cahoots with the airdropping human traffickers gangs of Mosaic.

You do know there have been sex trafficking/human trafficking rings recently busted Fairfax county?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not one specific threat or scam. It's a little odd for one person to randomly ask you about bible verses or phone number in Target, and doubly so for two people to. Whenever you've got a second person involved, it makes many of us jump to the conclusion that one person is there as a distraction while the other does something shady--steal a wallet, scan your credit cards from your purse using RFID, whatever. The OP encountered variations of this scenario multiple times, which makes her think it's a something hinky.

If I’m a church lady I’m absolutely bringing backup when I go out to proselytize. If it’s good enough for the mormon guys who canvas my hood, somehow know my name and use it to greet me in a creepily familiar way, and trample my tulips with their bikes it’s good enough for the little Black lady be the little Asian lady.

Come to think of it… maybe those to little creeper Mormon poseurs were actually casing my house and I did catch the short one ogling my mom boobies. I’m calling the police. Little box dogs prob in cahoots with the airdropping human traffickers gangs of Mosaic.

You do know there have been sex trafficking/human trafficking rings recently busted Fairfax county?

So you think the Mormons are behind it? What! someone call CNN!

Trust when I say this no one is trafficking middle aged white women. You are all safe. If you want to see the face of human trafficking victims sidle on over to the multitude of nail shops and rando massage parlors in Vienna. Park your car in one of the low rent apartment complexes in Annandale and look for the unit with men going in and out all night long. Then mosey on in. They will take your cash and not judge and not roofie you and smuggle you out on a cargo ship to the Middle East to be a sex slave to a Saudi prince.

Oh and they aren’t coming for your daughters either, that is unless they have an unsustainable coke, meth, heroin or IG fueled fast fashion habit which brings them into too close an association with the predatory crowd. Even if she’s a raging train spotting dope fiend no one’s snatching her up off of the cereal aisle at Target.

Take this as gospel. There are too many boys, girls, men, women and children in this world, for whom becoming a victim of violent assault and sex trafficking is a true and actual possibility. And the threat is based upon nothing more than unfortunate geography, war, violence, soul crushing poverty and dire circumstance. So much so that your histrionic, hysterical, and looney tune ravings about they are coming for me, me and mine, every single time some Other approaches you in a Target or Walmart parking lot, or every single time some random, bottle blonde, anywhere USA female goes missing are grotesque. (Oh and re missing random — it’s always, with rare exception, when the boyfriend/husband/dad/uncle and not some “Oil Can Harry” other).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not one specific threat or scam. It's a little odd for one person to randomly ask you about bible verses or phone number in Target, and doubly so for two people to. Whenever you've got a second person involved, it makes many of us jump to the conclusion that one person is there as a distraction while the other does something shady--steal a wallet, scan your credit cards from your purse using RFID, whatever. The OP encountered variations of this scenario multiple times, which makes her think it's a something hinky.

If I’m a church lady I’m absolutely bringing backup when I go out to proselytize. If it’s good enough for the mormon guys who canvas my hood, somehow know my name and use it to greet me in a creepily familiar way, and trample my tulips with their bikes it’s good enough for the little Black lady be the little Asian lady.

Come to think of it… maybe those to little creeper Mormon poseurs were actually casing my house and I did catch the short one ogling my mom boobies. I’m calling the police. Little box dogs prob in cahoots with the airdropping human traffickers gangs of Mosaic.

You do know there have been sex trafficking/human trafficking rings recently busted Fairfax county?

So you think the Mormons are behind it? What! someone call CNN!

Trust when I say this no one is trafficking middle aged white women. You are all safe. If you want to see the face of human trafficking victims sidle on over to the multitude of nail shops and rando massage parlors in Vienna. Park your car in one of the low rent apartment complexes in Annandale and look for the unit with men going in and out all night long. Then mosey on in. They will take your cash and not judge and not roofie you and smuggle you out on a cargo ship to the Middle East to be a sex slave to a Saudi prince.

Oh and they aren’t coming for your daughters either, that is unless they have an unsustainable coke, meth, heroin or IG fueled fast fashion habit which brings them into too close an association with the predatory crowd. Even if she’s a raging train spotting dope fiend no one’s snatching her up off of the cereal aisle at Target.

Take this as gospel. There are too many boys, girls, men, women and children in this world, for whom becoming a victim of violent assault and sex trafficking is a true and actual possibility. And the threat is based upon nothing more than unfortunate geography, war, violence, soul crushing poverty and dire circumstance. So much so that your histrionic, hysterical, and looney tune ravings about they are coming for me, me and mine, every single time some Other approaches you in a Target or Walmart parking lot, or every single time some random, bottle blonde, anywhere USA female goes missing are grotesque. (Oh and re missing random — it’s always, with rare exception, when the boyfriend/husband/dad/uncle and not some “Oil Can Harry” other).

But I saw a Facebook post that said women are getting abducted in supermarket parking lots and sold overseas. How can Facebook be wrong? It's on the Internet!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP back again. I didn’t think these two women were going to slip an Air Tag into my purse - but what I was saying is that this is something that can happen. The scammers or thieves, whatever, slip it into your purse or stuff whatever while distracting you by talking to you. Maybe the second or third person working with them, who knows.

If the ones who were asking me my favorite Bible verse/ wanted my phone number to join their “Zoom church” were just evangelists etc - ok fine, but still wildly inappropriate to do to shoppers minding their own business. I’d rather them knock on my front door, where I can make the choice whether or not to answer, than to approach me like that in public… also you’re not allowed to do this in stores at all. So to those of you who are just “whatever” about this, fine. But I’m glad some are taking it seriously, and I’m thankful for the responses reassuring me and to telling me to call the non emergency line next time.

Thanks for getting the word out! I’m going to be on high alert from now on, lest via strategically placed AirTag, those two Target Trollops try their tricks on me. No way their getting their paws on my neatly stacked and garaged lifetime supply of toilet paper and preserved peaches.

[Anonymous]

You all are seriously paranoid. Basically anyone in NoVa who is black, asian or brown and dares to talk to a white woman must be a gypsy scammer like in Rome. SMH.

[Anonymous]

OP here again. I went to the Target on Arlington Blvd this past Saturday and overheard a woman talking to a young unsuspecting kind other woman in the aisle. I didn’t recognize the woman from the other times at the Mosaic location, but she was saying the exact same things with the exact same tone, everything. It’s a literally script. You can call me crazy and not believe me but they’re very obviously some ring and this is not normal. To those of you taking me seriously, thank you. To those of you who aren’t - that’s fine, ignorance is bliss!

[Anonymous]

OP again - also - I’m not saying I think these women in particular are trying to sex traffic or drop an AirTag in peoples bags. Other people - police - have said that this is a common tactic of people that do those types of things, you never know etc. But these women are doing something shady and predatory and have criminal intent behind it. What exactly, I don’t know. I honestly thought it was innocent at first and just annoying, it was other people and a policeman that confirmed this a scam/criminal intent etc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What does the air tag do?

And what is the intended legal use of such a thing? Seems stupid and dangerous to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does the air tag do?

And what is the intended legal use of such a thing? Seems stupid and dangerous to me.

The follow you to your house and rob you/break in later.

[Anonymous]

Can you describe what these women look like?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does the air tag do?

And what is the intended legal use of such a thing? Seems stupid and dangerous to me.

The follow you to your house and rob you/break in later.

No they do not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does the air tag do?

And what is the intended legal use of such a thing? Seems stupid and dangerous to me.

The follow you to your house and rob you/break in later.

No they do not.

These women might not be but it has happened to some young women. Google it.