$400,000 worth of lobster stolen en route to Costco stores, shipper says

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Someone’s going to need a ton of melted butter.

A whopping $400,000 shipment of lobster was stolen as it was headed for Costco stores, according to the freight company’s president.

Dylan Rexing, the president and chief executive of supply chain company Rexing Companies, said in a statement that he believes the driver was impersonating a legitimate carrier and stole the seafood. The lobsters, which were not alive, were on their way to Costco stores in Illinois and Minnesota, he said.

“This theft wasn’t random,” Rexing said. “It followed a pattern we’re seeing more and more, where criminals impersonate legitimate carriers using spoofed emails and burner phones to hijack high-value freight while it’s in transit.”

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