A fraudster confessed to using fake credit cards in a number of states – mainly Connecticut – to take a lot of money from Lowe’s.

New York City resident Larell David, thirty, of Manhattan, pleaded guilty in Bridgeport this week to a pattern through that he defrauded the home improvement store out of around $183,000.

Precisely, David was charged with a single count of access device fraud.

U.S. Attorney John Durham claimed that between July 2017 and March 2018, David created more than hundred counterfeit credit cards of the identity of “Kevin Douglas,” that were encoded with authentic bank card numbers belonging to other individuals.

David then utilized the fraudulent credit cards to produce more than 350 purchases of gift cards and merchandise at Lowe’s home improvement stores in Florida, West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Connecticut .

Durham claimed a normal fraudulent transaction required the purchase of 1 or much more Lowe’s gift cards in the level of $400, as well as retailer merchandise.

In total, Lowes suffered a loss of $183,576.05 through this program, including more than $21,000 in fraudulent transactions conducted at fifteen Lowe’s places in Connecticut before his arrest on Jan. 16 last year.

Federal authorities didn’t release the particular locations of the Lowe’s shops.

David continues to be released on a $100,000 connect. He’s scheduled to be sentenced on Tuesday, Dec. eight, when he is going to face roughly ten years in prison.