B.C. Girl Guides has issued a warning after a number of social media users complained about getting scammed while trying to purchase their popular mint chocolate cookies online.
Users in a Facebook group in Campbell River, B.C., highlighted posts that showed users saying their daughters — purportedly part of the Girl Guides — needed to sell cookies and were willing to deliver them.
But once the users accepted an e-transfer payment — sometimes for as many as three or four $6 boxes of cookies — they would simply stop replying.
With the volunteer-run Girl Guides organization saying their cookie fundraisers are critical to their activities, the scams are leading to warnings about how
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