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Fraud victim unable to save Birkenstocks

US newspaper the Baltimore Sun this week reported a bizarre occurrence involving a 54-year-old woman, a pair of Birkenstock shoes and some very ineffective credit monitoring.

IT specialist Denise Stanco called a credit-monitoring service upon discovering charges she was not responsible for on her credit-card, hoping to stop the theft in its tracks.

The charges in question were by no means negligible, involving an $872 pair of Birkenstock shoes, as well as airline tickets worth more than $3,000.

However, instead of cracking down on the ambitious thief, Ms Stanco was told to file a police and fraud report, with funds in her account frozen from her usage but not in a way capable of stopping the thief's transactions.

Credit service operators insisted that the fraudulent transactions had to be completed in order to process the complaint, serving to render Ms Stanco's speedy action useless.

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