Black offenders target Target Gift Cards - Using stolen credit cards to rip off thousands of dollars from Target Stores

Gift cards are popular during the holiday season, but Chicago police today announced the arrests of two men charged with using them in a large-scale fraud operation against Target stores.

The arrests come as part of an ongoing fraud investigation coordinated with Chicago, Cook County, Secret Service and Target Corporation personnel, Chicago police said.

A group of people used stolen credit card information to produce fraudulent cards and re-encode gift cards, then used the faked cards to buy large numbers of high-end items for later resale, police said.

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