Wal-Mart parking lot
Pigeon Drop Fraud Targeting Elderly Women in Parking Lot

This is not a complaint about Wal-Mart, but about a repeated fraud attempt in the Wal-Mart Grapevine parking lot. The fraud is a pigeon drop.

As an elderly woman gets into her car, a woman approaches her excitedly, and asks "Did you see that? A green pickup almost hit me, gunning out of the parking lot."

Then, the woman confides that a makeup kit was thrown out of the pickup truck, and tells the elderly mark that the kit might contain something valuable (dope, so far, but it could be jewelry, money, or whatever). The fraudster asks the mark to be a witness as the fraudster opens the makeup kit.

Don't do it. Tell her to get a Wal-Mart manager to be a witness, then slam the door on her hand if necessary to get away. The fraudster is very pushy and imposes herself physically upon the mark making it difficult for her to close her car door.

Company: Wal-Mart parking lot
Country: USA
State: Texas
City: Grapevine

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