After a Stillwater man's bank alerted him to fraudulent charges, he posted a warning to a Facebook page and within minutes dozens of others reported they were dealing with the same thing.
Ted Koslowski started the Stillwater fan page, which now has more than 8,000 fans.
Tuesday he posted a notice saying, "Just got a call from Lake Elmo bank. Apparently a popular local business had its customers credit card info stolen and its effect has been widespread."
He went on to say his personal checking account had been hit with fraudulent charges from California and Russia.
He told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS more than $1,000 was siphoned from his account in a matter of hours. There were charges from electronics dealers, pet stores and gas stations.
After his Facebook post, at least 60 other people responded that they too were being hit with fraudulent charges.
There does not seem to be a common denominator indicating that all of the victims frequented the same store or made similar purchases. But authorities are in the very early stages of their investigation.
The case is developing so quickly that Washington County deputies had not yet filed their initial police report when 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS reported the story at 10 p.m Tuesday. kstp.com
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