The technique claimed several victims in Sarthe last week. So much so that the gendarmes and the CCI saw fit alert traders of the department on the "meeting flight". The scam is quite simple, and always starts with the same scenario: a person goes to a store and “pays for a purchase of less than 15 euros using a 100 or 200 euro note”.Once the change has been returned, often in 20 or 50 euro notes, the false customer retracts...
