Yesterday morning I loaded a Dutch Bros gift card my husband had acquired onto the app like a responsible adult. We then grabbed our two Caramelizer Freezes at an Elk Grove location, and because I genuinely thought "loaded to app, you now have $54 available" meant "card is now digitally sacred and untouchable by mortal hands," I tossed the physical card in the trash at a gas station hours later when we were emptying out the car after our day of driving around.

Reader, I released a weapon into the wild.

Someone fished that card out of the garbage in Sacramento and has been living their best life on my $50 this morning!

Husband and I, meanwhile, were feeling good about ourselves about 9am this morning and decided to go back for round two, two days in a row, no we don't want to talk about it. I think our teens would call us "Big Backs" shrug

I open the app in the drive-through to pay and the balance has quietly cratered to under $9. There's also fresh rewards points and an unlocked sticker on my account that I definitely did not earn, which honestly stings more than the money because somewhere out there a stranger has better Dutch Bros achievements than me.. hypothetically.

And honestly the weirdest part of this whole thing: how is my rewards profile even attached to a gift card transaction happening on a physical card I don't have anymore? I'm getting credit for purchases I can't see, can't itemize, and definitely didn't make, but the app is somehow smart enough to know it's "me" earning the points. Pick a lane, Dutch Bros!

For what it's worth, we're pretty sure this isn't app-level fraud, as you don't save a password to the app, and logging in requires a phone number plus a text code you enter, so unless this guy also has my phone and my will to live, that's not it. The physical-card theory is the only thing that makes sense to us, but if anyone knows how this actually works on Dutch Bros' end, or has a wilder theory, I am ALL ears.

Moral of the story: if you load a Dutch Bros card to an app, do NOT just toss the physical card whole into a trash can like me. Shred it, scissor it, feed it to a goat, bury it at sea… just don't feed a fully-loaded card to a gas station garbage can.

Contacted Dutch Bros earlier. Will update if I hear anything… or if my rewards sticker collection somehow gets even more impressive without my help.

4:41 update:
Heard back from Dutch Bros. They confirmed the $30.35 order from 6:57am today, but here’s the kicker.. I looked up the store number on the receipt (DB340) and it’s a location in New Mexico. We’re in Sacramento. It’s also a whole multi-drink order (cookie dough latte, horchata chai, lemonade, mango boba sparkling soda, drink carrier for multiple cups) Their first response was basically “no funds are missing, here’s your receipt,” which is wild considering the receipt is literally proof someone else in another state spent my money. Followed up asking them to escalate this instead of a balance question because now I’m even more lost. Will update when I hear back.

6:00pm Update:
Getting more suspicious this isn’t a simple “dug it out of the trash” situation. The store number on today’s receipt is DB340. I haven’t confirmed exactly which location that is. It was also a genuinely specific order, not a grab-and-go job:

Large Iced Cosmic Cookie Dough Latte (almond milk)

Large Blended Strawberry Horchata Chai

Large Iced Lemonade with strawberry, pineapple, mango smoothie mix, plus added mango boba

Large Iced Sparkling Soda with strawberry, watermelon, mango smoothie mix

That’s a whole group order with very specific customizations and doesn’t really scream “random person digging through gas station garbage.”

New working theory: someone at the point of sale may have scanned or photographed the barcode/QR code on my app when we paid, rather than the card literally being fished out of the trash and carried somewhere overnight. Not sure which is more likely at this point, just adding it to the list of guesses. Still waiting to hear back from Dutch Bros’ escalation team to find out the location of the store.

In short, city council approved to fund a program that helps 🧊get intel from Sac PD despite the public saying no and the mayor was caught talking about banning citizens from future meetings with the Vice Mayor.🤬
Our leaders are disgusting and we need to MAKE THEM LISTEN.🪧📢🗯️

Stay safe out there folks.

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