Begging for return scams

[wolfie]

There has been a recall of fruit due to listeria contamination. When I read the story in a newspaper today, it said that purchasers of the fruit in question should discard it at home and go to the store to get a refund - no receipt needed (just give the approximate number and type of fruit you had bought).

Anyone working in a grocery store - have you started getting suspicious "no product, no receipt" returns on contaminated fruit?

[sms001]

I'm going to guess that Wanona(?) is going to be cutting huge checks to retailers anyway, and that the percentage of fraud will be written off against a quicker recovery and assurance of good-will. It really is a scammer dream come true though. Let's hope that the more outrageous ones run into the rare spined manager who calls them out on their "I bought four thousand of them - I wants my moneyz."