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Over a four-day period, Oberg bought a total of $32,000 in gift cards from various major retailers and read the card numbers to the scammer over the phone. She said only two cashiers asked her why she was spending so much money on gift cards. And even when she bought $8,000 worth of cards at one retailer, the cashier said nothing. Download our NBC Washington app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. News4 visited seven major retailers and saw that all had signs warning about scams on their gift card displays, although some were more obvious than others. Those ...
Vera Oberg of Germantown, Maryland, lost her life savings to a gift card scam. Oberg is a registered nurse with a degree in healthcare administration and said she can’t believe she fell for this scam. But unfortunately, even the savviest of consumers are no match for these thieves. The scammer claimed he was an FBI agent and told her...