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

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Anonymous wrote:There’s also the target scam where poor women approach you and ask you to buy them food or something. You feel generous and then they turn around and return it all for cash. A Target employee said they return stuff all day long for cash and that they’ve done this to a lot of people. Wtf. Why wouldn’t Target shut that down?

If products were paid for with a credit card then refund is made to that card. If I were doing this, I wouldn't give them the receipt.

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Anonymous wrote:Not in the DMV: I was approached at a grocery store by a young 22-25 year old woman, I'm mid-50's. She wouldn't stop asking me about my running shoes. Errrr.....they're nothing special. Brooks.com look it up. Then proceeded to ask me if I run, and where I like to run. I told her I like run with my DH and rottweiler, and got the hell out of there. I had my head on a swivel the entire walk from the store to my car.

Wow. The world is totally f’d. Make friendly small talk with someone and they call the cops on you. SMH

You are all insane. Real criminals are either too sophisticated to waste time stalking people with Air Tags in Target or they are strung out and give zero fcks about just punching you in the face and stealing your bag. Consider how lucky you all are to be so naive.

Where did I say that I "called the cops"? a 22 yr old chatting up a 55 yr old about her old Brooks running shoes and where she likes to run is odd, suspicious, and out of place. So what, I was supposed to ignore my instinct like so many other women do and end up regretting it?

You need to stop being so naive as to think this stuff isn't happening. You do you though. I could not care less.

+1 In Atlanta yesterday, a 77 year old woman living in a gated community was stabbed to death by a young man determined to steal her car.

By someone who placed an air tag in their purse at Target? Nope. By someone who chatted about sneakers? Nope.

You are all paranoid. Car jackers and muggers don’t chat with you they come out of the blue and surprise you and threaten you directly with violence.

I agree with pp who thinks you guys are crazy and paranoid. Are any of you who posted your “getaway” stories wondering how you ALL managed to get away from the secretly dangerous but very innocent looking people who were talking to you in public? Could it be, perhaps, that they were just innocent people?

Come to where I live and witness the larger stores and parking lots limping woman, the man playing a violin, the couple with a stroller, etc-- all of whom try to strike up "innocent" conversations before you see them the following week getting into cars with their cohorts and their day's profits until they get caught. I don't choose to "lose" my bags and wallet that way.

. Unless these limping, violin playing, stroller pushing people approach you at gunpoint (which is highly unlikely) mind your business and keep it moving. You are less important to them than you believe yourself to be.

PP here. No guns but get very close-- almost in your face and curse you if you don't give money or follow you around the store. You may be finr with that kind of behavior and maybe even grew up with it. I don't want any stranger that close to me.

The real question is where do you live? I am in Rockville, Bethesda, potomac and have never experienced this. Not used to before or now. Never.

Come visit Atlanta.