A Massachusetts woman gave $20 to a 'charity worker' in a Trader Joe's parking lot only to discover the scammer pocketed $5,000 from her account instead.
Arianna Billias, 30, was grocery shopping outside of Boston last fall when she unknowingly launched herself into a months-long nightmare.
'It was pretty quick. They were out there, they had their clipboards and gave a lot of information,' she told WCVB.
The scammer claimed to be taking donations for gun violence victims, so Billias happily whipped out her credit card. That's when she started to spot red flags.
'I felt like something was wrong once the card was out of my own physical hands,' she said.
The worker told Billias there had been a 'processing issue' and snatched the credit card from her grasp.
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