What looked like routine trips to the fitting room at Alo’s Miami Design District store were anything but, according to police. Investigators say a former employee quietly funneled nearly $11,000 in fraudulent refunds onto a virtual gift card tied to her, then used it to shop before slipping out the door.
Miami-Dade police allege the scheme ran from October 2025 through February 2026 and ultimately cost the company $10,963.48 in losses. The refunds were not customer mistakes or system glitches, detectives say, but a planned setup that turned Alo’s handheld checkout tech into a personal cash machine.
Officers arrested 34-year-old Kleoniki Spyridou in Miami Beach and charged her with organized scheme to defraud and third-degree grand theft, according to NBC 6 South Florida. An arrest report reviewed by the station says surveillance footage shows Spyridou picking out merchandise, taking a portable point-of-sale device into a fitting room, then processing refunds to a virtual gift card linked to her…