Thieves Go On $10K Shopping Spree At Apple Stores With Stolen Credit Card; No One Checked Their I.D.?
BURLINGAME (CBS SF) -- Deborah Leon's wallet vanished in a busy restaurant and within minutes the thieves spent thousands of dollars at Apple stores.
She wants to know why no one at Apple bothered to ask for I.D.?
The victim later found out someone made a whopping $10,000 worth of gift card charges at 3 different Apple stores but it never set off a red flag with a single employee.
She had no idea anything had happened until she left the restaurant and got a call from her credit card company. The damage was done -- $10,000 spent on 5 gift cards worth $2,000 a pop.
"I had to spend hours on the phone with credit card companies and was really concerned about my driver's license being there," said Leon. "It was stressful."
It's left Leon scratching her head as to how Apple employees at the Burlingame, Hillsdale, and Palo Alto Apple stores didn't do anything to stop it.
"It's frustrating because I would think that to make that kind of charge you would need I.D.," said Leon. "That person could have pulled out my driver's license but obviously it wasn't me. So whoever allowed that charge to be made was not checking I.D., or was not checking it properly."
KPIX 5 reached out to Apple about their fraud protection procedures. So far, they have not responded.
Eventually, the credit card companies forgave the charges.
Police have pictures of the 4 suspects who went on a gift card shopping spree, but they are still at large.
Leon said if she's learned one thing from all of this it's to keep a close eye on her purse at all times, no matter where she is.
