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Woman Scammed Out of $1,000 For Fake Laptops

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – A scammer was able to swindle $1,000 from a woman who thought she was buying four laptops in the parking lot of a business in Clarksville.

Police said the 24-year-old woman was getting out of her car in the parking lot of a business on Wilma Rudolph Boulevard on Thursday afternoon, when she was approached by a man who had gotten out of a grey Dodge Charger. He showed her a laptop and told her his girlfriend was the manager at Best Buy and he had gotten a great deal on some laptops like the one he had. He then proceeded to tell her he would sell the laptop to her at $350 a piece because he needed the money more than the laptops.

He had four of them in Fed Ex boxes in his car, and opened two of them and she saw what appeared to be laptops. They were packaged nicely in plastic bubble wrap in Fed Ex boxes specifically made for shipping laptop computers. The woman called some of her friends and they all wanted one so she bought all four of them for $1,000 cash.

The man said he would load them into her car and then quickly left.

The woman later opened the boxes and found the "computers" were several packages of notebook paper sandwiched between a black notebook binder and a white notebook binder.

The woman is from Nebraska and travels here at the end of every month for business.