Friday, February 29, 2008

Credit Card Scam Targets Disney Guests

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Walt Walt Walt Walt Disney visitants autumn victim to recognition card scams.

Detectives said the recognition card cozenage could be the work of just one adult male who contacted people staying in Disney hotels and offered them covers that sounded too good to be true.

"He said something like, 'Your dreaming have come up true,'" victim Linda William William William Clark said.

Clark was staying at Disney's Dad Century resort, when she got a phone call from a adult male posing as a Disney employee.

"I had been chosen to have tickets to the Hoop Dee Doo review for $20 each," Clark said. "And I thought, 'Gee, that's A fantastic thing.' And they said that I would necessitate a recognition card figure to throw the tickets."

There were no tickets waiting for Clark, and she later discovered her recognition card had been used to purchase $1,500 in Walt Walt Disney tickets.

"I couldn't believe that I had fallen for that," William William William Clark said.

Clark is one of nine Disney hotel visitants taken by the scam. Their recognition card game hit up for more than than than $11,000 in deceitful charges.

Most of the victims were targeted between October and last calendar month and were staying at Disney's Polynesian resort.

"White neckband crime, personal identity theft, recognition card fraud -- apparently easy to make and it doesn't take a rocket man of science to draw these law-breakings off," Jim Solomon Islands of the Orange County Sheriff's Office said.

Investigators are strongly considering the larceny the work of a Walt Walt Walt Disney employee.

A company spokeswoman said, "We have got placed information in vacation spot suite to remind invitees to protect their recognition card information while traveling and to inform them that cast of characters members will never reach them by telephone while they are visiting us to bespeak their recognition card information."

The narrative have somewhat of a happy ending.

In each case, Disney helped the nine victims negociate with their recognition card companies to re-credit the more than $11,000 dorsum to their accounts.

The sheriff's business office is tracking hints they trust will take to the individual who is responsible.

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