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at archwellhealth dot com. Hi, everybody, welcome back.
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I'm Joyce Petrowski, founder of Rose Resources Outreach to Safeguard
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the Elderly, and before we begin, I want to thank
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They've thought about every little detail when it comes to
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reinforces your scam prevention habits and keeps at top of mind.
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So when you are contact, you know you're more apt
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to think scam and then go through the steps to
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make a determination if it is a scam or if
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it's legitimate. So today we have our guest with us,
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Gail Barr, who is going to talk about her scam
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experience and also the cryptocurrency ATM refund that she receives.
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So let's welcome Gail. Hello everyone, Hi Gail, how are you?
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I'm good? How are you? Joyce? Good? Good?
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Thank you so much for being willing to share your
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story this morning. I know it can be hard sometimes
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to talk about uh, you know, falling, falling victim to
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a scam, but if you wouldn't mind sharing your story,
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and we can get started.
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Okay, Joyce, Yes, I I.
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Was for sure. Let me just let me just say
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I with it work.
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It was my sevent seventieth birthday, October fifteenth, and I.
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You know, finished my job. I was.
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I'm a nurse practitioner, and I finished my shift and
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was checking my birthday messages in the office and saw
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a that I had a call, and I listened to
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my voice smail was a call from let's see, it
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was from Chief Deputy Derek Elmore. It was a message
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on my on my phone saying he's from the Maricopa
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County Sheriff's Department and there was an important legal matter
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concerning legal documents I needed to address concerning the honorable
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Judge Jennifer Zips, so please call back, and he gave
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me the number and the extension. I immediately looked up
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Derek Elmore. He was indeed a Phoenix police officer, and
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Jennifer's Zips was an a tuc Son judge, so you know.
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And I called the provided number and then they stated
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it was the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department. I was connected
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to Police Captain John Bailey. They gave me his badge number,
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and he said I was hand selected by the Honorable
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Judge Jennifer Zips to be on a grand jury and
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a medical mail practice case scheduled for October fourteenth, a
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day before my birthday, and I didn't show up and
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she didn't take kindly to that. And I also said
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I signed a subpoena which I didn't sign, but I thought, well,
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my son was living with us at the time.
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I thought, well, gee, maybe he signed something.
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So there was a little bit of a yeah my mind,
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yeah wow.
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So you know, it's interesting.
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I have talked to some people, you know, probably two
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three years ago, and they would say, well, scammers don't
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leave voicemails, and I'm like, no, they they're leaving voicemails.
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Whether it's them actually talking or it's a computer that
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they've got, you know that's leaving a voicemail. But they're
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doing it because I think they're realizing that a lot
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of people aren't answering the phone if they don't know
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who's calling. I get a lot of that too, right,
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and you know, making it sound so official, right, using
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sheriff's the sheriff deputy's name and then using an actual
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judge's name. You know, they they they have ways of
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finding all of this information out. A lot of times
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they you know, can look it up on the on
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the website, and you know, higher up people are usually
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listed on there. But it's I think they have other
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ways to find this information. So that that must have
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been pretty scary, you know, talking to them thinking that
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you miss jury duty And did they immediately.
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Go to like threatening you that you're going to get arrested?
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Well not at first.
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They they just said that there were two subpoenas out
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for my arrest and that I had to go to
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the bank and get get a certain amount of money
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out to pay for to pay a post bond amount
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and sixty dollars right away today via and I was
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going to give the money through a federal bonding kiosk.
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Oh they called it a federal bonding kiosk what they
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called it?
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Yeah, wow, okay, all right, that makes it all the
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more believable, right, ye good. Especially during COVID right there
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a lot of like the Maricopa County Recorder's Office had
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these kiosks out there if people wanted to transfer their title.
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They could go to a kiosk instead of having to
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go down to the recorder's office. So I think because
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we you know, I mean COVID's it's been a few years,
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but I think saying that it was a federally bonded kiosk,
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it yeah, right, uh huh, yeah, absolutely so did they
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did they want to stay on the phone with you
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the whole time?
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They wouldn't let me off the phone. They said, you
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have to stay on the phone. You have to talk
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every five minutes. They wouldn't they, you know, they would
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not let me get off the phone.
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Did they give you a reason why you had to
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talk like every five minutes?
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They said, because I could skip town.
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They had to know where I was, and that there
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was a gag order so I couldn't talk to anyone
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about the case. It was called a maintained contact order,
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So I had to stay on the phone. That's what
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they called it, a maintain contact order. I have to
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stay on the phone with them the entire time and
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talk every five minutes.
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Wow, that's that's that's very detailed. That's very elaborate, you
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know what I mean. It's it's yeah.
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Yeah, the length that they go to to make this
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sound so official and so believable.
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Is just they they really do their homework.
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So they you went to the bank, you got the
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money out, and they gave you directions on where to go.
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Yes, and they did.
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It happened to be a circle K, which I thought
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was strange that there that there was, you know, for
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to deposit money and they would have that type of
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federal bonding kiosk in a circle k. Turned out it
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worth a Bitcoin machine at circle k.
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Okay, at the moment, did you did you ask them,
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you know, why they would have a federally bonded kiosk
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at a circle k? Or is that something you thought
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about after the fact.
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It's something I thought about after the fact that I
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knew something was wrong. I knew something was wrong I have.
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I had COVID in twenty twenty one and I was
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pretty sick with it actually, and then I had a
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post COVID pneumonia. After that, I had some memory issues
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that I was diagnosed with a mild cognitive impairment okay,
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amnastic type and they did get better over time, and
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so I thought, but I don't know if that had
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played a part in and my wanting to just take
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care of this problem. You know, here somebody is calling me,
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let me take care of this. Then I'll go home,
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you know, after work. You know, but that possibly could
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play into older people being more vulnerable.
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Yeah, absolutely, right, because the cognitive I don't know what
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the right word is, but uh, cognitive impairment mild modern here, right,
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it's also it's a huge range, right, And I think
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a lot of times, and this is my opinion family members,
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because I went through this with my mom years ago,
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he ended up she had dementia for a number of
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years and then she went into Alzheimer's and and all
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of that was I think as family members, we we
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might notice something, but then we write it off as
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something else because we don't want to think that that there,
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you know, is a cognitive impairment or going on.
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But uh, yeah, it's uh.
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finally start taking note of it and start doing something,
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but it's already become moderate to severe.
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Right, that's my opinion.
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Going through it with my mom, right, you just keep thinking, oh, well,
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they're tired, or you know, they're just not thinking clearly
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or whatever.
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And you know, I think it was one day where I, uh, I.
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Left the house for a half hour and I came
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back and we have a gas stove in and the
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burner was on. There was no pan or anything on
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the stove, right, And it was like, okay, something's not.
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Right here, right.
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Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's definitely a delicate situation.
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It is.
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And you know, mine was mild and it was getting better,
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so I felt I could do a job that wasn't
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too demanding, which I did opine with. But you know,
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it does affect your confidence and and you're the fact
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there's you notice different little things that happened, but your memory, yeah, yeah,
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to use a lot of notes, you.
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Know, right, right.
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So one of the things that you mentioned was they
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said it was a maintained something.
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Order, a maintain contact order contact order. Did you ever
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find out when you after you reported it, if that
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actually is a legitimate thing, a maintained contact order. I
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did not. Oh, I'm just curious if they actually are
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using the same type of things that you know, legitimate
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police officers would use, or lawyers would use and stuff
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like that, or judgments would use. But so so you
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had to stay on the phone, you had to talk.
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They took you to a circle k.
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To go in there and to put the money in,
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and it was nine thousand, two hundred and sixty dollars.
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Is that what you said?
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Okay? It took an hour to put the money in.
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An hour. I was standing there an hour.
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And did anybody from the store, like a clerk or
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anybody a customer, Did anybody come up to you and
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talk to you about, hey, maybe you might be getting
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scammed at all?
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No?
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Int I.
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After the scam, I went to the store and I
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let them know what happened, and suggested that that they
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keep an eye on on people, you know, especially other
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people on that machine, you know, and and that kind
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of thing. But yeah, no, nobody meya.
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It was interesting.
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I saw somebody sent me a video that I watched