This story serves to remind us that no one can be trusted with our credit cards, even the owners of seemingly legitimate businesses. According to a recent story I read about recently, a woman by the name of Debra Burkhart was recently sentenced after she plead guilty to making over $25,000 in fraudulent credit card charges.
After getting her customer’s credit card information, Burkhart took it upon herself to charge $26,447 to the woman’s credit card in the form of cash advances from Fifth Third Bank over a 12 month period.
She had the fraudulent cash advances deposited into her business account. How it took the woman who was defrauded so long to notice the bogus charges is beyond me, especially considering she was a customer of Burkhart’s back in the spring of 2006 and, at that time, had only purchased $142 worth of products at the time.
After pleading no contest, Burkhart was ultimately found guilty of her crimes. The grand theft count she was facing, however, was dismissed. Sadly, the judge only sentenced her to three years of unsupervised community control sanctions and she ws ordered to pay $6,780 to the bank. Fortunately for the victim, she was completely reimbursed for the fraudulent charges that were made on her card.
Perhaps the most pathetic part of the story was the rationale that Burkhart cooked up to explain what she did. She told investigators that an unspecified medical condition may have been the reason for her doing what she did.
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