Generous people gathered in Portland this weekend to help some Girl Scout troops recover from a costly prank.
The scouts were fooled by an order of 6,000 boxes that turned out to be fraudulent. But they didn’t find out until after the cookies were ordered.
On Saturday, they sold 3,000 boxes and learned some tough business lessons and some good things about the kindness of their community.
The fraudulent order had been placed via email, from an address belonging to an acquaintance of a troop leader. The emailer turned out to be a girl who used her mother’s email address to pull the prank.
