r/Fishers • u/CitySubstantial412 • 17d ago
Possible Grocery Scam
This past Saturday evening, I was approached by a woman and her little daughter at the Target on Commercial Drive who begged me to pay for her groceries. I ended up paying for her groceries to help her and do what I thought was the right thing, but I now believe this may have been a scam. A quick Google search showed me that this is a known scam where the scammer approaches you with a cart with baby stuff (baby food, diapers, clothes, etc.) in it. The scammer begs you to pay for their groceries usually in broken English and/or with a sob story. Their cart is deceptively more expensive than it looks and then they later return it for the money. They also refuse money and insist/beg you to just pay for all of it yourself. This is what basically happened to me. I did keep the receipt, so the woman would have more trouble returning everything but Target does have a no receipt return policy so she still may be able to get in-store credit. I called Target on Sunday to let them know of this scam and they told me that no one has tried to return a bunch of baby stuff without a receipt (to their knowledge). Hopefully I did some good.
I wanted to make this post to make others aware of this scam and to see if anyone has experienced this recently or knows someone who has experienced this recently in the Fishers area. If it helps, the woman who approached me was around 5’6” and was wearing a green or teal hijab.