Police: Man charged in multi-county gift card fraud scheme

Investigators said mobile-wallet “tokenized” purchases tied New York defendant to stolen credit card numbers

Montgomery Township Police have charged a New York man in what investigators describe as a multi-county credit-card fraud operation targeting Wegmans and Home Depot stores across Southeast Pennsylvania.

According to the criminal complaint, detectives began reviewing suspicious activity in early January after Wegmans reported that groups of “Chinese actors” were visiting multiple stores in Montgomery, Bucks, Delaware and Chester counties on the same day, repeatedly buying $125 gift cards using stolen credit-card data…

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