The boy allegedly said that proceeds from the gift card sales would benefit his youth baseball team.
, the boy was selling “buy one, get one free” gift cards for Domino’s Pizza, stating that the proceeds would benefit his youth baseball team.
The boy was last described as “wearing a dirty pink baseball uniform with a Southern accent,” police said.Tom Eilers, a victim of the scam, said he did not care about losing the money but was concerned about the child.Eilers said the boy walked into his office at about 9 a.m. on Tuesday and was selling peel-away Domino’s Pizza coupon cards, according to the television station.
The cards read “delivering the dough, $10″ on one side, with 16 peel-off “Buy 1, Get 1 Free” stickers on the other,“I thought to myself, a little boy wouldn’t know what he’s doing when he’s selling these,” Eilers told the television station. Domino’s officials confirmed that victims were trying to use the cards at the pizza chain’s locations in the Illinois cities of Troy, Maryville, Edwardsville, Mount Vernon and Salem,There are legitimate fundraising cards being sold, and they contain the slogan, “Slice the Price” along with a redemption code on the front, lower left-hand corner of the cards.
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