BURLESON (1080 KRLD)- Police in Burleson have shut down a gift card tampering ring.
Thieves figured out a way to make $1.7 million by stealing gift cards, reprogramming them, then putting them back on the shelf. Burleson police say the two men set up shop in a Carrollton hotel. They used computers to reprogram numbers on the back of thousands of cards.
Once the cards were put back on the shelves, the money a customer later tried to put on the card would go into the thieves' bank account.
Collin Gregory of the Burleson Police Department says they found more than 4,000 cards on the two men they arrested.
He says anyone who recently bought a gift card from Target or Home Depot should hang onto the receipt until they make sure the card works.
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