Houston store hit hard by stolen credit card ring

Monday, August 8, 2016
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- The women came in looking presentable and they had the credit card to match. They came in a Mercedes, and they looked the part.

But Matt Stacy, the owner of Houston Flooring Warehouse says these women ended up being thieves.
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"I remember the customers because I was in here that day, " he said.

The women had expensive taste.

"They found the floor that they wanted, went to one of the more expensive floors, just nice because we have a lot of people who buy a lot of nice things, " Stacy said.

Stacy says the woman's ID matched the name on the American Express credit card she used to buy the flooring.
The price came out to a whopping $34,000, but a good sale turned bad when an American Express investigator paid a visit to the company's headquarters in Dallas.



"He told us about what was going on, that he suspected it was a credit card ring, a group that was doing this and they were a whole group of the stolen cards."
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But the ID matching the credit card, and the woman's car tag seemed legit.
Yet, police say it was all fake, Stacy said.
The real credit card belongs to a company in California.

Now, these women are nowhere to be found, and this business is out a lot of money. The store is offering a $5,000 reward, and taking measures so this doesn't happen again.

"Unfortunately, this was a heavy hit to the corporation. However we're getting smarter."
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