Trying to defraud *police* credit unions?

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

OK, without knowing the details, this still, initially, strikes me as a really stupid 
thing to do.  Even if you succeed, to begin with, you've got a lot of really capable 
and motivated people after you ...

Police have arrested eight people in a two-month-long investigation of at least 
$150,000 in credit card fraud against members of two police credit unions.  The 
fraud ring, which involved seven employees of Chicago-area retail stores, hit 140 
accounts at the Illinois State Police Credit Union and the Chicago Patrolmen’s 
Credit Union, according to Illinois State Police.  The investigation involved state 
police, the U.S. Secret Service, the Illinois Attorney General’s office, and the 
Chicago Police Department.  Police did not identify the retail stores involved, but 
corporate security for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., also assisted in the investigation.  
[Oh, what a giveaway! - rms]  According to police, the ring involved seven 
employees of retail stores who either bought merchandise fraudulently or helped 
other people buy goods fraudulently.  Investigators began their probe after people 
with accounts at the two credit unions found out someone was making fraudulent 
purchases on their cards.  

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2008/12/arrests-in-credit-card-fraud-
against-police-credit-union-members.html  

(On the other hand, it'd possibly be easier to do, initially.  Someone from law 
enforcement once told me that cops are the easiest people to socially engineer, 
because they belong to a very tight community, with a specialized jargon, and if 
you "talk the talk," they automatically assume that you are "one of them ...")

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