Three gift cards at 1,000 each. A few hours later the scammers called dr. Tomasini to get the code numbers from the back of the cards and then the reality hit. I was at work and my sister called and said oh, my god, dad just got scammed out of 3,000. Reporter her father then filed a Police Report with the Oakland Police department and his case is not the first. In fact, best buy has posted warnings about this scam on its web page, but inside the emeryville store at the register we found no such warnings. Best buy knows about the scam and the real corker is best buy keeps the money because the cards cannot be converted to cash. They can only be used at best buy. So my money goes back to best buy. They buy goods and then they sell them on the black market for whatever they can get. Reporter best buy says it works closely with Law Enforcement once a crime has been reported and its employees have been trained to spot seniors buying large dollar amounts of gift cards, but no one stopped dr.
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Georgia Today. I m Virginia Prescott, in for Steve Fennessy. As the nation celebrates Black History Month, we re taking you back to an often-overlooked chapter in Georgia s civil rights history. Before the Selma to Montgomery march, before the “I Have a Dream” speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was sentenced to four months of hard labor for an outstanding traffic violation. It s October 1960, just weeks before Election Day. Dr. King is arrested for taking part in a lunch counter sit-in at Rich s department store in Atlanta. He was then transferred to DeKalb County, sentenced, jailed and then taken in the dead of night to a Georgia state prison. Thanks to some back-channel, even rogue moves by the Kennedy campaign, Dr. King was released.