Darien Identity Theft 2020
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Store Employee’s Wallet Stolen, Credit Cards Taken, Used at Electronics, Luxury Stores

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An employee at a downtown store recently got a call from her husband, who told her that there had been fraudulent purchases on one of her credit cards. When she checked her purse, which was in the back room of the store, she found her wallet was missing. Along with money, it had the credit cards in it that were charged for the purchases she hadn’t made at Nordstrom and Best Buy with the couple’s American Express card and at Target with a Target credit card. She told police that she had been working at her job at House of Needlepoint, 839 Post Road, when two females entered the store at about 12:45 p.m. the day before (Sunday, March 15). The two asked the employee for help and at some point the victim brought them into the back room, where some items were kept.

Darien Identity Theft 2020
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After Bank Cards Stolen from SUV in Country Club Parking Lot, Woman Finds $2,764 Charge

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Cash was stolen from a purse in an SUV, apparently unlocked, parked at the Wee Burn Country Club on Wednesday, Sept. 2, and bank cards were also taken, resulting in a $2,764 charge to the victim’s account, police said. The money was used to buy an item from the Apple store in New Haven. The victim parked her Lexus RX350 in the club’s parking lot at 8:15 a.m. and returned at 1 p.m., when she found all her cash and bank cards missing from the purse. At some point, she called banks to cancel her cards, but discovered that the single, large purchase had already been made.

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Darien Woman Reports Identity Theft From a Credit Card and Other Online Accounts

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A Darien woman found that her credit card was used to buy food at a Darien restaurant earlier this month and that many of her other online accounts had been compromised and someone else had been logged into them. The McLaren Road resident said her credit card was also used to charge $1,500 for her Uber account. Police didn’t say when the theft was discovered, but the woman reported it on Monday, May 11. The compromised accounts included her Facebook, Amazon and Venmo memberships. Police didn’t say whether or not the woman was using the same password for the compromised accounts, an obvious way for an identity thief with one password to get to the others.