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August 8, 2014
A local woman is swindled out of her wallet when an apparent good Samaritan offered her a ride.
Josephine Lupo, 74, was angry to the point of tears describing how she became a victim of credit card fraud.
“I had to call everybody,” Lupo said.
She said it was a giant hassle to deal with the identity theft.
On July 5, Lupo was walking to her car in the Walmart parking lot at 4980 East Silver Springs Blvd. when a woman approached and offered Lupo a ride from her husband to her car.
Lupo had her purse and wallet when she got in the vehicle, but a short time after the woman and her husband dropped Lupo off the senior citizen realized her wallet was missing.
“Bad! Very bad. I would not do that to anyone. I would not do that to anybody,” Lupo said.
While police try to figure that out, big developments came in the case. A woman who was not involved in giving Lupo a ride tried to use the stolen American Express and Macy’s cards.
She bought high-priced weaves at the Looking Good beauty supply store at 1971 West Silver Springs Blvd.
“It costs about $200 per pack,” said Abdel Kaasem, who owns the beauty store.
The owners took a picture of the woman that they describe as a regular customer when she showed suspicious-looking identification.
“So just because it looked sketchy I said, ‘Let me take your picture and if you have no problem with that, then everything should be OK,'” Kaasem said. “She was like, “‘Yeah, sure, go ahead and take the picture.'”
The woman also used Lupo’s credit card at a Citgo gas station at 1517 SW 10th St.
“Put them in jail! They deserve it,” Lupo said.
Ocala police posted the store owner’s photo on the department’s Facebook page. Investigators said they have received several calls since posting the photo.
Arrests in the case are expected.
