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Man cheats Home Depot out of $300,000 with return scheme

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Kamaji:
Man cheats Home Depot out of $300,000 with return scheme

By Chris Pandolfo, Fox Business
August 4, 2023

A Connecticut man allegedly defrauded Home Depot of nearly $300,000 with a non-receipted return scheme, federal prosecutors say.

Charging documents allege that Alexandre Henrique Costa-Mota, 26, of West Hartford, Connecticut, walked into Home Depot stores in eight states, grabbed expensive doors and then returned them without a receipt in exchange for store credit.

Costa-Morta was detained without bail after a judge in federal court in Rhode Island entered not-guilty pleas on his behalf to charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, the U.S. attorney’s office in Providence said in a statement Wednesday.

An attorney representing Costa-Mota did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The alleged fraud took place between June 2021 and February 2022, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Prosecutors say Costa-Mota entered stores empty-handed, “dressed to appear like a contractor.” He would then collect Andersen doors and bring them to each store’s service department, where he made non-receipted returns of the doors.

Each time he succeeded, Costa-Mota was given a store credit that he later redeemed at other stores in Connecticut and neighboring states. If a store refused to accept the returns, Costa-Mota allegedly took the Andersen doors without paying for them and returned them at other stores for store credit.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/08/04/connecticut-man-cheats-home-depot-out-of-300000-with-non-receipted-return-scheme/

catfish1957:
$300K with one party over 8 months?

I have a feeling that there are probably 5-10 Loss Prevention professionals from HD working on their resume' tonight.

Kamaji:

--- Quote from: catfish1957 on August 04, 2023, 09:30:33 pm ---$300K with one party over 8 months?

I have a feeling that there are probably 5-10 Loss Prevention professionals from HD working on their resume' tonight.

--- End quote ---

Yes indeed.

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