I am having a little trouble understanding how this is news and how this particular credit card theft rates such pursuit and such a reward. I had my wallet stolen in the Burlington Coat factory, midday, by a couple of ladies who presumably just wanted to help me. I am a great grandma….I was shopping for a baby shower gift for friends with whom I worked before retiring. Another lady, appearing to be older like me…approached me, informing me that she was about to become a great grandma and was looking for the perfect gift! I told her I knew exactly what to get but couldn’t find it. She offered to help. We finally located it on a very high top shelf in the store and suddenly a “friend of hers” showed up and said she would climb up and get it. I told her no, that the stores insurance didn’t cover customers climbing on shelving. But she did it and suddenly I was called….”Can you grab this?” So, I left my basket and purse and went to grab the item which I wanted from the gal hanging on the shelving. While I did that, Burlington Coat factories camera caught the other
(soon to be great-grandma) digging in my purse and retrieving my wallet!) I went directly to the check-out and that’s where I discovered I had no wallet. Of course, I went home and cancelled every credit card and my bank card, went to the bank and filled out all necessary paperwork and then went out to try to obtain a temporary driver’s license, etc. I finally ended up in Webster, TX at 8 p.m. reporting the theft to the police there. The policeman with whom I spoke gave me a lecture about carrying my social security card with me and then suggested that I pick up the film from Burlington Coat Factory. He said they wouldn’t do it, but they would keep the film in the file, just in case these ladies surfaced again! At 9:30 p.m. when I was finally through with his paperwork and ready to leave, he suggested that I “run by Academy, which was nearby, and obtain the film of the thieves using my card…he knew Academy had cameras on the registers. I did that…Academy was closing, but the gentleman with whom I spoke informed me that I would need to contact their headquarters office to obtain the film! The theft occurred somewhere between 12:30 and 1:30 and my cards and all were cancelled by 2 p.m. But these ladies had gone just across the freeway and used my card at the Academy…and then tried to use it at a CVS where they were denied because the cancellation had set in! The police subsequently, obtained photos of them in the Academy, but they have not been caught! All that evidence, but nothing has been done! How is my case any less important than the one in this article? Banks and credit card companies usually just write these crimes off and you and I pay for it in credit card costs…insurance costs, etc.

I have had something similar happen to me…beyond putting a venomous smake in your purse, there is no deterent for these bottom dwellers who prey on hard workig citizens . I am purchasing an alarm system for my purse. I am sick and tired of these a- holes and I am about ready to take action myself as the law does not have enough time to deal with these losers.