ENID — Police in Edmond and Enid are investigating similar claims of fraud that occurred at Walmart stores in each of the cities at separate times on the same day, March 29.
Last week, Enid Police Department took a report of fraud at Walmart, 5505 W. Garriott, where a black woman posing as a store employee used cash cards to abscond with thousands of dollars.
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Sgt. Dustin Albright said the woman entered the store at 7:39 p.m. March 29 wearing a blue shirt, dark pants and a Walmart name tag with the name “Tabby.”
The woman approached a clerk at a register and said she had just finished in the money center, but she had four Green Dot Money Pak cards that needed to be loaded with $1,000 each.
The clerk loaded the cards with cash, which can then be used to load money onto other prepaid cards, transferred to a PayPal account or make same-day payments to companies. The woman took the cards and left the store, getting into a red mini-van.
Albright said a similar scam at a Walmart in Duncan had been reported to law enforcement officials there that same day.
The Edmond Sun reported a similar incident at a Walmart store there earlier in the day.
At 12:30 p.m. an Edmond Police Department officer spoke with a representative at a Walmart at 2200 W. Danforth concerning fraud. They said the suspect had obtained three of the Green Dot Money Pak cards at $1,000 each.
A store employee told police a similar scam had been used at another Walmart store in Edmond and another in Del City.
Officers took a second report of scam March 29 from Walmart at 1225 W. I-35 Frontage Road that occurred March 15.
Enid detectives said they do not want to say the suspects in the stores are the same person.
Albright said information from the Enid case was forwarded to the Oklahoma Information Fusion Center, a information gathering service for law enforcement, and was released as a bulletin to other law enforcement agencies.
