Her Boyfriend’s Mom Stole Her Credit Card At A Funeral, Then Used It To Shop Online
It’s always uncomfortable when a relative or loved one takes advantage of you or takes something of yours without asking. It’s especially awkward when that person is someone related to your partner.
One woman recently decided to call the police after her boyfriend’s mom stole her credit card, and now she’s very upset with her.
She’s 22 and in a relationship with her 25-year-old boyfriend, Greg. She and Greg live together in an apartment. Greg is close with his mom, Lisa, who is 70 and lives nearby.
Recently, she attended a funeral for one of Greg and Lisa’s relatives. Before the funeral, she packed a large bag of miscellaneous things in case Greg and his family needed anything throughout the day.
After the service, Lisa stepped outside to smoke a cigarette. She glanced at Lisa outside the church through a window near the parking lot. At one point, Lisa opened their car and rummaged through her large bag.
She didn’t think anything of it, especially because she packed lighters before the service and figured that’s what Lisa was grabbing for her smoke break. However, she had forgotten that she packed her wallet in the bag as well.
Then, two days later, she was at the gas station getting ready to pay for her gas when she noticed her credit card was missing from her wallet. She’s usually really good about keeping her card in her wallet and putting it back in there anytime she uses it, so she was confused.
She paid for her gas with Apple Pay and called Greg to ask if he could look for her card at his parents’ house. Unfortunately, he didn’t see it anywhere.
“I didn’t find my card, Greg didn’t find my card, and I decided to give it one more day before I canceled it because maybe it would just pop up,” she said.
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“I [also] had not noticed any transactions through my bank app that weren’t from me. The next day, Greg texted me, saying he found my card on top of the washer. He said he didn’t know how he missed it, but it was there waiting [for him] when he went to do some laundry. I told him I’d get it from him in a couple of days when he came back to our apartment.”
Then, the next day, she checked her bank account and noticed someone had placed an Amazon order on her credit card, although she hadn’t bought anything from Amazon in weeks. Greg hadn’t made the order, so she reported the fraudulent charge to her bank.
However, not long after discovering the Amazon charge, she found out who did it.
“It was discovered that Lisa used my card for the purchase because she couldn’t find hers,” she recalled.
“She said she would pay me back soon and that she really needed it. I don’t know what she bought, but I don’t care, considering she stole my card. She also has a history of gambling and stealing. She has taken money from Greg before, and a driving factor of her divorce [from] Greg’s father was that she stole most of his savings while they were separated.”
Because of Lisa’s bad history with money and the nerve she had to use her credit card without permission, she contacted the police and told them what she had done.
Now, Lisa is furious with her and hasn’t stopped insulting her, telling her she should’ve waited until she could pay her back. However, she wasn’t so sure she’d ever get paid back without the cops intervening.
Should she feel bad for reporting her boyfriend’s mom to the police?
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