Utah Shopper, deceived to buy $ 1,000 in a baby formula in probable scam – KSL Newsradio

Salt Lake City – If you approach a mother who asks you to help feed her baby, you can be moved to do it. A lot of such a request was drawn to the heart of Virginia Beard when it happened to her.

“Can you help me?” Asked a woman who approached Beard while in a store. “I need diapers and milk for my baby.”

Beard agreed, but when she went to hand over money, the woman refused.

“She said,” No, no – your card is good, “Beard said. “And I thought, oh, she doesn’t want to want more than what she really needs.”

It was not milk inside the woman’s cart – more recently some boxes with a baby formula. When he was put on the spot, as it was, Beard had not thought of the price.

“I had no idea they were $ 57,” she said.

Virginia and Bob Beard explain to Matt Geppardt from KSL how a woman in a shop lug Virginia to buy a baby formula worth nearly $ 1,000. (Tanner Siegworth, KSL TV)

She said that what had happened further became a choreographic dance. In self -check, the woman scans the products and asked Beard to insert her card. At that moment, another boy stood in a way that prevented her from seeing the total number. He also continued to talk to her, distracting her.

“” Oh, bless you. Thank you very much. Jesus blessed you “,” she said the boy told her. “I mean I hugged me, kissed me – Woof!”

Then, Puff, they quickly stepped out the door, jumped into a waiting truck, and pulled away. Only at that moment, Beard looked at the receipt and saw that she had just spent $ 948 on a baby formula.

“Sweet, she just shuddered,” she said about how she felt as she explained it to her husband Bob Beard.

“Deer in the headlights,” he told her appearance at that moment.

Virginia and Bob Beard are not alone.

Seeking online, I have found several publications on social media and news articles from all over the country that talk about the same scheme. And last month, a video posted in Tiktok showed a Walmart associate confronted with a woman who is believed to pull the same Rousse to a client.

Such difficult schemes for strangers involving a baby formula have been reported throughout the country. (KSL TV)

As for Bairds, they said they were reporting to a store manager and learned that they were not the only victims here in Utah.

“And she said,” Was he a woman and a little boy? “I said yes. She said, “Oh, yes. They were here yesterday. That’s what they do. “

All this of course is asked; What could an artist want with a bunch of baby formula? The formula is easily resold online, plus many stores will allow you to return unopened cash reimbursement boxes or storage loan.