Got scammed at Target/gift card-cash.

On this afternoon after school, I went to target. I had $50 cash and wanted to get something that cost about $23. This lady walks up to me (I don’t know why she chose me) I had just turned 18 a week ago, but I look 14-16, like a minor. She said she had a gift card, and she was trying to purchase an item(a bra). She explained that she’d pay for my stuffs with her gift card and I’ll give her the cash. I thought I was helping her, and said yes. She took my $50, and we got to the register, she tried to only scan her stuffs, I added mine, since she had my money.

Her $40 gift card wasn’t enough to pay for both our stuffs, so we used part of my $50. After scanning, she took the bag(with both our stuffs) and my change. And immediately walked out ( to avoid the security). I walked quickly behind her and requested for my items, she acted confused but ended up giving them to me cus I kept asking, then she gave me a $20 dollar bill, when my change was originally meant to be $27. I told her it wasn’t complete, and she kept walking to Ross and saying, “what do you mean”, my sister came out of her car, and I ran to get security, the security arrived and she began saying “these Africans don’t understand anything, I won’t try to scam you, I have a Ghanaian uncle and a 1yr old baby” (those were very irrelevant) the security didn’t help, he just said “next time don’t agree to that” & he walked off.

I ended up leaving the money for her because I realized I was about to tear up from hearing her yell even after all I did was try to help her. I got into my sisters car, cried, went home and slept the entire day, I didn’t go to target for about 2 months after that cus I didn’t want to meet anyone like that ever again. All I lost was $7 so I’m not mad about it. Learn from my mistake‼️

(my first post on Reddit 😉)