Safeway employee rescues senior from gift card scam

Safeway employee rescues senior from gift card scam

[jamestan]

I give props to this young woman you're a hero.❤

[thejrc]

I’m touched and grateful for the training the employees receive. It’s nice to know they care.

[ZZ-lyjf]

God bless you, Sophia and the staff at Safeway. Thank you for looking after our elderly.❤

[andyjackson]

Literally dealing with this today with my mom. We need to talk about this more and openly to protect our vulnerable elderly population. I am so glad some people are taking action.

[kylepearson]

Something like this happened to my grandma about five or so years ago with the scammer saying that my older brother was being held by authorities in some other country. The scammer knew my brothers name and said he needs like $5, 000 or so to get get him out. My grandma said I need to speak to my financial advisor which was her son, my dad. She called my dad and asked where my brother was and my dad said he's sitting right next to me. So glad my grandma still had the smarts not to fall for this.

[DarkSim]

Damn, Sophia is really pretty. Kudos to her for recognizing the situation and for being so helpful. We need more people like her.

[Mattea]

this happened to my 84 y/o mother about 4 yrs ago but she caught on quick. She had a phone call saying your Grandson is in Jail and needs so $$ for bail, My mom responded I DONT HAVE ANY GRANDSONS and the caller abruptly hung up

[seekingtruth]

I don't understand in todays time how people don't understand a scam by now. Bless her heart, we need to have something to educate people on this.

[susanstancliff]

Thank you to all who are being prepared to help people who are being scammed and don’t realize it or what to do.🙏❤️

[shelbyvillerules]

Honestly, whenever an elderly person comes into a store and tries to buy hundreds and hundreds of dollars worth of gift cards it should immediately set off a bunch of red flags. Ideally all supermarket employees should be trained specifically to spot potential victims of scams like this.

[SuaveBolo]

Wonderful cashier and lead cashier at this location are angels to the customers.

[YvetteJirsaraie-gpoi]

Great job and great customer service!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 This is a true patriot. God bless her for still respecting the elderly. 🙏

[DOLfirst]

Kudos to this employee! Well done 👏 and thank you

[philipmartin]

Sophia is beautiful in more ways than one. God bless her.

[theHAL]

Great job. Some of these scams are so far-fetched that its hard to believe anyone would fall for them, but the scammers just play the numbers until they can hook someone.
Terrific this young woman and her associates stepped in and helped. Unfortunately the scammers will just continue on until they get another hit. Just complete low-lifes.

[christinehunter]

They need bigger warnings signs at the gift card sections, and put a 24 hr hold on gift cards

[skipperlilo]

Sophia good work for looking out for this lady and I want to give you a compliment your very beautiful young lady

[virgie]

There’s this older man who always comes in my store and buys hundreds of dollars worth of eBay gift cards... I never wanted to be nosey, but I’m definitely asking him next time what he buys them for. Especially since we’ve got a bit of a cashier/costumer friendship now.

[gailwebb]

A cashier at Walgreens and I helped stop an elderly lady from buying 1, 000 dollars worth of ITunes cards to help get her grandson out of jail. We gently encouraged her to call her son and make sure grandson was ok....which he was. It was a scam and she was terrified for her grandson, thinking he was in jail. We both talked to her son who promised to monitor her accts for scammers. She was very grateful that her grandson was that we stepped in to help her.

[dinakarsoul]

Great pro active work like Sophia is what we need 🙏🙏🙏🙏👍🏻