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Calling Card Scam Hits Local Convenience Store

By: Victor Sotelo
Updated: April 10, 2012
A clerk at the new Stripes on Industrial Boulevard was recently scammed.

According to the police report, a caller impersonating someone from corporate headquarters asked for pin numbers for calling cards over the phone.

Before she figured it was a scam, she gave the caller close to $400 in pin numbers.

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