The storefront of Postal Xpress, the transport and mailing service enterprise situated at 4380 67th Drive, Union Grove, is pictured Tuesday morning.
She claimed to be transport pictures wrapped in a bubble mailer to Florida, and was asking for an in a single day cargo which was going to price her $130.
Labrie requested a couple of extra questions and discovered what she was actually mailing was $7,000 money. She had been instructed by a scammer over the cellphone that her grandson was in jail and he or she wanted to bail him out.
Labrie alerted her to the rip-off and helped cease it from persevering with, however the points didn’t cease there.
On Oct. 20, one other buyer got here into the shop with a bubble mailer and was claiming to be sending pictures. Subsequent, it was paperwork.
“She mentioned it was simply paperwork. She couldn’t actually verbalize who it was for or why,” Labrie mentioned. He didn’t want to establish both of the victims.
He gave each clients the well-known Clint Eastwood stare, the look the place he squints and lifts his lip up, “to allow them to know this was severe,” he mentioned, laughing.
Labrie discovered that after once more the client was sending money, particularly $8,000, to California to supposedly pay for somebody’s medical payments. Her “grandson” was allegedly in a automobile crash and induced a supposed harm to another person.
The day prior, somebody had come to the lady’s door and requested for money on the spot. She gave the person $10,000 — a loss she most definitely can’t ever get again.
