(WSVN) – It seemed like a great deal, and she bought a prepaid card to protect herself in case something went wrong. Something did go wrong, and she couldn’t get help, which is exactly why she turned to Help Me Howard with Patrick Fraser.
When Tashika Brown was young, she knew how many children she wanted to have. She says God had another plan.
Tashika Brown: “My plan was to have three, but I wound up with six, and and I’m happy for it. God blessed me with six.”
When you have a family that big, you have to work a lot, and Tashika does.
Tashika Brown: “I do storage auctions, you know, I buy storage units online.”
Tashika sells a lot of the stuff she buys at storage auctions at the Swap Shop, and she brings the materials in by going online to rent a truck for the day through Google … where recently an ad popped up.
Tashika Brown: “It was a 1-888 number, and I called them, and they were saying, if I get a Green Dot card, I can get a discount for the day. ‘Oh, that’s great.’”
Taskika had never used a Green Dot card, but to rent a truck for $20, she bought the card. When she called the so-called rental company, they told her to put $300 on the card instead of the $20 for the rental.
Tashika Brown: “I’m asking her, ‘Why $300?’ She said, ‘Oh, that’s for the deposit, plus the rental.’”
Then the person asked for the card information.
Tashika Brown: “So I gave the card name on the front, the card number in the back, the expiration…
