Denison business owner shares scam experience

DENISON, Texas (KXII) – Alex Lyons is the owner of the Denison boutique, Rae of Sunshine Collective.

Since opening in 2022, the business was running pretty smoothly.

Last summer, things took a turn when she got a call from a store in Dallas.

” They were like, hey, we have a check that looks pretty suspicious. So I’m just calling to see if it was you,” Lyons explained.

It wasn’t.

Once she looked at the bank account activity, she noticed a number of checks were taken out.

“She had temporary checks that were from my business account. She wrote a fake name on them, signature, went to my bank and cashed them,” added Lyons.

Close to $800 gone.

She said, “The bank then said that they can open an investigation to look into it. but there was no guarantees I would get my money back until it was done.”

Lyons said she made the best out of a tough situation. once she filed a police report, she turned to social media for extra help

“and I made a little video, just talking about what had happened, and I did a little sale for the week to try and recoup the money. and the fraudulent name that she used was Amanda. So we did an Amanda stole my money sale,” she shared.

People flocked to the store in support of Lyons. buying candle, key chains, sunglasses.

” I was able to make back all the money that she stole, and then after almost a month, they were able to reimburse me the money,” Lyons said.

Last week, 40-year-old Bekki Foster was arrested on felony counts of engaging in organized criminal activity, and fraud.

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