A Walmart cashier from Shreveport, LA was caught copying down customer’s credit card numbers and using them to buy items from the store where she worked. As you can imagine, the police caught on to this brilliant scam pretty quickly. She was arrested when credit card numbers were found in her purse. [KSLA]

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