LAFAYETTE, La. ( KLFY ) — A woman is urging the public to be aware of a possible scam tactic, saying her credit card was stolen when helping a man jumpstart his vehicle.
Darcell Duhon said she was at the CVS off East Broussard and Johnston Street on Thursday when she was approached a man requesting help jumpstarting his vehicle.
“He requested a jump for the vehicle, and he let me know that his battery was in the back of his vehicle in the trunk, and he proceeded to do the jump on his vehicle,” Duhon said.
“He asked to sit in my vehicle to press my gas and one of my old colleagues had come out of CVS she and I were conversing, and he said that he needed a bigger vehicle for his jump at that time, my old colleague let him use her SUV to do the jump,” she continued.
Duhon said the man asked for Duhon to move her car which she permitted him to do so.
“He moved my vehicle and moved her vehicle in the back of his vehicle and after he had done the jump he took off and we got back in our vehicles and noticed our credit cards gone,” she said.