Police: Walmart Welfare Scammers Photo’s Coming Soon!

Wal-Mart Welfare Scammers Security Footage Coming Soon

MANY, LA – Remember back a week ago when a glitch occurred with EBT cards at Walmarts in Louisiana? The food stamp system accidentally lifted the limits on the cards so people could buy whatever they wanted. So what did they do?

This:

People cleaned out the shelves in Louisiana, taking advantage of a glitch that lasted about two hours. But two hours was all these people needed in order to seize hundreds of dollars of groceries per person.

Wal-Mart was going to have to eat the costs of being scammed, but at least now they may get a chance to catch the people responsible.

The Many Police Department issued a statement that read:

“The MPD is still very active in the investigation of thefts that took place on Saturday October 12th at Wal-Mart involving losses because of malfunctioning EBT Card transactions and other thefts where customers simply left the store without paying for items.”

The MPD were initially called to a local store on October 12th because when the glitch was fixed, people were simply leaving the store without paying for groceries at all! One man was spotted fleeing with a full cart through the garden center as police arrived.

The administrator of the MPD’s Facebook page said, “We hope to have photos of many of these shoppers on our webpage before the end of the week so they can be identified.”

Some parties have already come forward to make restitution and their photos reportedly won’t be publicly displayed.

 

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2 comments

GTP October 23, 2013 at 3:35 pm

I believe that the article said that some people simply left without paying.

Master255 October 28, 2013 at 5:40 pm

Who’s to say someone didn’t use someone elses card? Thats the problem with just going by the cards. It will be funny though to see how much food stamps these people lose during the coming months. As for the thieves well you would need cameras as well to identify them.

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