
Someone apparently wasn’t satisfied with the employee discount.
NBC New York reported on Tuesday that Apple Store
employee Ruben Profit was arrested and charged with grand larceny after
“allegedly re-coding credit and debit cards” while working at the
retail location in the Queens Center Mall in order to purchase $997,000
worth of Apple gift cards from his own store.
Profit
began working with Apple in 2013, but was transferred to the Elmhurst
location this past July. Allegedly, he began “buying” the gift cards in
question in August. Apple started investigating the issue earlier this
month when notifications of fraudulent transactions began appearing on
the gift cards that Profit had lifted from the Apple Store.
The
report claims that at the time of his arrest, Profit had collected more
than 51 Visa and American Express gift cards with re-coded magnetic
strips as well as seven Apple gift cards, each worth over $2,000. That’s
a lot of MacBooks.
To
make matters worse, Profit also sold several of the $2,000 gift cards
to an unnamed individuals for $200 a piece. With all the evidence
stacked against him, Profit reportedly faces a sentence of 15 years if
he’s convicted. He’s currently being held on $20,000 bail, which I’m
fairly certain he can’t pay for with Apple gift cards.
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