A 43-year-old Darien woman received an email receipt from the Saks Fifth Avenue store in Stamford for $228.64 — the cost of an MMJ brand handbag the store said she bought.
She hadn’t bought it. And the last four digits of the credit card account number mentioned in the email was not a number that corresponded to any of her accounts.
The purchase occurred at the store on Sunday, March 13, and the woman reported the matter to police the next day.
It appears that the identity theft was accomplished when the thief had the woman’s name, email address and apparently enough personal information to open the credit card account.