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Apple Store Employee Charged With Stealing Nearly $1 Million in Apple Gift Cards
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He should change it to Nebur Profit, because crime doesn't pay.
Not sure about the Queens location, but the stores here in the city are always full of customers (the Fifth Avenue one does about a million a day). And $2000 is not an unusual amount if you want to buy a Mac for a relative as a gift, but don't know exactly what to give them.
Good that they were able to correlate chargebacks to the employee selling them.
His name would have been perfect if it were Larson E. Profit
Crap, I bet it's going to start getting harder to find discounted cards on eBay.
No. The issue was that they were off the clock during the mandatory searches.
He must be a smooth talker. You don't just walk in and get hired on the spot. It's quite the process and he managed to fool everyone. This wasn't a crime of opportunity. This took planning.
Seriously, I would imagine after the first 3 it would trigger a flag.
I worked in Apple retail for just over a year and the amount of GCs I sold I can count on both hands. Most of them were $50-$100 - a few that were $199 for the iPhone.
I did have a guy come in around early December, drop his Amex black card and told me he's 23k short on meeting the annual spend. So I helped him buy a few things. But he was somewhat a regular and never had issues.
It seems to me that it would have been a little strange for one Apple Store to have $997,000 worth of gift card purchases in just two months -- especially when most of the gift cards had $2,000 on them. I'm sure that was a red flag. How many people walk into one Apple Store and buy a $2,000 gift card? My guess is not many.
Helped him buy a few things, eh? I would've loved to have been a fly on the wall when this was transpiring...
Customer: How much are we up to now?
You: $18,542
Customer: Ok, I'll take one of those Mac Pros too...
15 years of tax paid prison. That'll surely benefit society.
It’s strange how massive sentences get handed out for theft and a not so great ones for physical crimes.Where's there's smoke...
Good for him. 15 years no rent, fed and loved.
This would have been solved if Apple didn't miss the chip and PIN deadline! For some reason Walmart beat Apple here. And even Target. Cloned cards wouldn't be a problem.
Off to check the Marketplace forum to see if we had anybody selling $2000 Apple Store gift cards... 
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