Gift Card Scam
Gift card scams are another popular category of scams that many innocent people tend to fall for. This person walked into a Best Buy store to pick up a TV they had ordered. When the staff couldn’t find the order, they demanded to talk to the manager who had supposedly sold the TV to them on Craigslist.
Apparently, the fake seller had instructed them to make the payment by purchasing gift cards for the asking price and then send them pictures of the gift cards and then pick up the TV from this store. Of course, it was a scam. There was no TV. How come they didn’t stop to think why Best Buy would sell televisions on Craigslist?