Victim Location 37214
Total money lost $2,196
Type of a scam Phishing
A person called a manager of one of the branches of the retail corporation. The caller self-identified as a member of that same corporation, and the caller knew a lot about the store. The caller said that the store was knowingly under federal investigation, but that this needed to remain confidential. Somehow, the caller also had access to the personal information of the manager whom the caller called. The caller knew the manager’s name and employee ID. The caller instructed the manager to purchase Green Dot gift cards, read off the information from those gift cards, and then destroy the cards. When calling the number above (the number with which the caller contacted the manager), it initially appears to be the Tillys Loss Prevention department (though the recording heard when calling the number changes daily to resemble the Loss Prevention Centers of different companies).