Cab driver prevents further damage in gift card scam involving 87-year-old woman

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Boston 25 News - 2/7/2019 - A Quincy Police officer helped to prevent further damage in a gift card scam involving an 87-year-old victim. The Quincy Police Department posted on Facebook about a driver named Richard Spencer, who had picked up an 87-year-old woman who had asked to be taken to Walmart.The driver, working for Yellow Cab, was told during the ride that the woman needed to buy more gift cards for her grandson, who was supposedly in trouble. "She was an elderly woman and she purchased two $2,000 gift cards," Spencer said. "I think it's the most reprehensible scumbag crime you can do." Another driver told Spencer that the woman had gone to a store earlier and bought two gift cards, each with a value of $2,000, and Spencer immediately brought the woman to the Quincy Police Station with the belief that the grandmother had been scammed. Read more @ https://www.boston25news.com/amp/news/c ... /916319100