I almost fell for an IRS scam yesterday

I used to work at a gas station that had a western union. There was this old lady that would come in wiring money multiple times a week. Everyone thought it was weird but for some reason no one really asked her about it except for one time.

The regular store manager was on vacation for a long enough period of time that corporate sent someone from a different store to fill in for her. After two weeks of him noticing he asked her some questions and then told her that he thinks she's being scammed she got mad and said she knew she was getting scammed and told him to finish the transaction anyway. He told her that he couldn't finish to transaction since she admitted that she was being scammed, I'm pretty sure he called the station down the road to tell them not to process the transaction for her either after she said that she would just go there to do it.

People are weird.

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