Illuminati
Joined: 05 Dec 2003
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Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2003 3:58 pm Post subject: bar code switchers caught
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This appeared in my local paper today, but I can not find any corresponding info for it on the web.
Lowe's, Home Depot are victims of fraud
Atlanta - Secret Service agents arrested three people Thursday on charges of defrauding Home Depot and Lowe's across the South out of $150,000 by switching the bar codes on rugs.
David Oliver, 34, of Hampton Ga., his wife, Mindy Oliver, 38, and Marcus Abercombie, 33 of Duluth, Ga., allegedly too bar codes from cheaper items and affixed them to expensive rugs at Home Depot and Lowe's stores in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
They would go through the checkout lines and leave with rugs worth hundreds of dollars for $29, authorities said.
Investigators said the three would later return the rugs at other Home Depot and Lowe's stores for a refund.
In Home Depot's case, the store routinely gives store credit instead of a cash refund. The thieves would take the store credit vouchers and sell them on eBay, authorities said.
-From wire reports
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