MILTON, Ga. — An asset protection specialist at Walmart on Windward Parkway reported to police Oct. 23 that an employee had sent thousands of dollars in wire transfers.
The specialist said the employee had been asked to come to the front for a phone call about a register not working properly. According to the police report, while the employee had been on the phone for four hours, he sent wire transfers totaling more than $8,000.
One transfer had been canceled, the police report said, bringing the total loss to around $5,600.
In an emailed statement included in the police report, the employee described what had happened. He said a man claiming to be from “field support” gave him a series of instructions which included powering off and starting up a register as well as going through steps “like we were sending money.”
The employee said that he had been instructed to put in the name of a woman with a Georgia address as the sender and a man located in Florida as the receiver. He said the caller told him the exercise was a test for the “Home Office.”
After the transactions, the specialist told police the employee placed his employee card and vest on the desk anticipating his termination, which would happen a few days later.
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