DO-SI-NO! OREGON GIRL SCOUT TROOPS FALL VICTIM TO $24,000 HOAX COOKIE ORDER... BUT THEY MANAGE TO SELL ALL 6,000 BOXES TO SYMPATHETIC LOCALS

Nice: Sympathetic residents have chipped in to buy the cookies and ensure the girls can still afford to go to summer camp

Two Girl Scout troops in Portland, Oregon, have fallen victim to a $24,000 bogus cookie order - but sympathetic residents have chipped in to ensure they can still afford to go to summer camp.

Someone posing as a Hilsboro company employee requested 6,000 boxes of the tasty trademark treats through a parent of one of the scouts over email earlier this week.

But when the time came to pay up, it became clear the huge corporate order was a hoax, potentially ruining the girls' chances of making enough 'cookie credits' to attend summer camp and to help out the homeless.

However, since word spread about the nasty prank, people have come in droves to support the scouts.

Yesterday, crowd swarmed around the Girl Scouts headquarters to purchase the towering boxes of unsold cookies yesterday - and by today all 6,000 had been bought.

 

'I expected a few people to come down,' Girl Scout spokesman Sarah Miller told KATU News. 'Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine this many.'

'I've been a Girl Scout for 23 years. I've never seen anything like this.'

Girl Scout cookies generally stop being sold on March 10, but the two burned troops arranged yesterday's sale in an effort to make up some of the loss.

'I was like "wow,"' said 11-year-old Terra. 'People actually care about stuff like this.'

Betty Englert told KATU News she drove down from Vancouver after hearing about the hoax on the news.

'I thought it was a dirty trick to play on them, and this way they get their money back,' she said. 'I'm so glad to see this crowd.'

Miller said the kind-spirited people wanted to show the children that the world is a good place.

Miller told the news station that the Girl Scouts organization didn't plan to press charges against the person said they were sorry and the girls managed to sell all the cookies.

Sales: Girl Scout cookies generally stop being sold on March 10, but the two burned troops arranged yesterday's sale in an effort to make up some of the loss

Scam: Two Girl Scout troops in Portland, Oregon, have fallen victim to a $24,000 bogus cookie order