A local man wants to warn the public after he was scammed out of more than $200 from a scammer.
“He had a badge on and he had receipts, and he just didn’t seem like a sketchy guy,” Hunter Jackson, who purchased a broken pair of speakers from a scammer in the Home Depot parking lot, said.
Jackson said he was approached by a man in a white van who offered to sell him expensive speakers for cheap.
“So I went and looked at them, and he told me they sell them at the store for like $3,000,” Jackson said.
Once Jackson got home, he attempted to use the speakers, and that’s when he found large pieces of granite glued to the bottom of several of the speakers.
“We couldn’t find anything on the company. We started looking inside and some of them had granite and some of them had hot glue, and so it was fake, it was a scam,” Jackson said.
It’s a common scam, according to Sound Wave, a locally owned speaker/audio store.
They stressed that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
