A large number of packages sent to milk and tea shops were sent to Vietnam via California, the shocking case behind this has come to light.

After a two-month investigation, the police uncovered a major fraud case involving stolen accounts and credit cards for online shopping. Investigation revealed that the suspect passedwal-mart About 15,500 orders were placed on the website, and these products were delivered to residential buildings and milk tea shops, and then transferredCalifornia Ready to be loaded into containers and shippedvietnam . Currently, six Asian suspects have been arrested, the amount involved in this case is approximately 1.23 million.

According to reports from Arizona Family, Fox 10 Phoenix and others, the case was initially reported by a Walmart delivery driver. On August 22, the driver told police that over the course of a few days, he delivered 30 to 50 packages to the same residence in Peoria, Arizona, but the recipients’ names were different. A few days later, a consumer reported that his Walmart account had been compromised and used to purchase items. Two reports caught the attention of the police. After a two-month investigation, six suspects were finally arrested on 22 October.

Investigators said the gang used Walmart customer accounts to order items on Walmart’s website and stole credit and debit card information. To avoid the platform’s fraud warnings, the suspect also changed the delivery address and shipped the goods to different locations. The investigation found that merchandise purchased through fraud was shipped to two milk tea shops in Peoria and Tolleson, then loaded into trucks and shipped to California, and then loaded into containers through a freight company for shipment to Vietnam.

Court documents show police linked 11,364 orders to six delivery locations in Mesa, Avondale, Glendale and Peoria, with the value of the orders in question being more than $768,000. Walmart confirmed that the two victims suffered a total loss of 57,501 yuan due to chargebacks and chargebacks arising from related transactions. JPMorgan Chase confirmed that unauthorized shopping transactions worth 8,821 yuan had occurred in the accounts of 203 customers.

Products purchased online include shampoo, moisturizer, denture adhesive fixodent, M&M’s chocolates, as well as baby products, pet products, etc. During the investigation, police seized approximately $25,000 of Walmart merchandise, an additional $35,000 in cash, and gold bars valued at approximately $45,000.

Investigators determined that 30-year-old Hoi Nguyen Nguyen was suspected of organizing the operation, which involved at least nine people. But Nguyen denied any involvement in the crime and said he was just an employee of the trucking company, and investigators believe he may be the company’s owner. The other two suspects reported that Nguyen had recruited them to collect packages on his behalf, requiring them to use different names to sign for and track the merchandise, then loading the merchandise into vans and U-Haul trailers and driving it to California, and paying them according to the value of the merchandise.

On October 22, police executed search warrants at several locations in the Phoenix metropolitan area and detained a total of 10 people. Four of them were released after questioning and the remaining six were taken into custody. Besides Nguyen, the six arrested are 42-year-old Thien Tran, 55-year-old Uy Vu Phan, 57-year-old Minh Nguc Nguyen, 24-year-old Hai Xuan Le and 26-year-old Haley Hang Nguyen.