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Last night my dd and her friend went shopping after work. She is 26 and should have been more careful but this is what happened. They were in Payless and she apparently set her purse down on one of the seats to try on some boots. She was looking at them and later found out someone had stolen her wallet out of her purse. She called me upset. They had checked her car, called her work and had them check her cubicle and they even checked all the trash cans in and outside the store. I told her to call the cops so she had a record in case of id theft.
They said she would have to go to them to file a report. She had credit cards, money and all her id in the wallet. 2 of the credit cards were on our accts, 1 old navy, and a discover she uses for emergency and help with legal fees dealing with her exhusband.
I called discover and cancelled but they had put 100 at a local market (suspect beer and cigarettes) and 65 at a video game store at the mall. Luckily no responsibility for fraud on the cards. She had 45 in cash and one of her cards they put another 65 at the same game store. She now has to get all the id and cards changed.
They did nto try to use the old navy or her target card we think it is because they thought only a store card.
My question is why did the stores not check for id? while they had her id, bet they did not look like her.

They did remember later, that a woman had walked up to them in payless asking a crazy question on what they would call the color of some shoes. We think they were distracting her so someone else could get the wallet.

What a mess. Merry Christmas!