Hotel Employee Unwittingly Gives Credit Card Info to Fraudster

`The following is an excerpt from the Woburn Police Department log. Please note that this is a sampling of activity in the log, not a complete account. We report all arrests included in the daily police log.

Featured Incident- 

August 8-

At 9:01 a.m. police responded to the Extended Stay Hotel on a report of credit card fraud. Police spoke to the manager who said an employee unwittingly gave a customer’s credit card information to an unknown party over the phone. The manger said that at about 3 a.m. a male called the hotel and said he was from corporate headquarters and needed a customer’s credit card information to run a test of the system. The caller gave the information of a previous customer.

The manager said she called corporate headquarters and realized the phone caller was a fraud.

Police spoke to the customer who said he had been notified by American Express of the issue. He also said someone used the card to purchase an item worth about $300 from Best Buy’s web site. 

Other Incidents- 

August 7-

At 7:29 a.m. police responded to a Brandt Drive residence on a report of vandalism. Police spoke to the caller who said that sometime the night before someone destroyed the accent landscape lights on her property. The lights had been ripped out of the ground, torn away from the electrical wires and thrown into the street. The lights were worth about $250.

August 8- 

At 9:04 a.m. a woman came to the station to report vandalism to her motor vehicle. The woman said that sometime between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. the day before someone cut the catalytic converter off her vehicle. She said it was parked at 12 Alfred Place while she was at work and on her way home the night before her Toyota Highlander was very noisy. Her husband checked the vehicle when she got home and noticed the converter had been cut out.