Sen. Daniel Inouye may be one of the victims of a credit card scam, according to the Atlanta Constitution Journal. 

The newspaper reports that a 20-year-old woman is accused of helping two other people buy $12,000 in merchandise using fake credit cards with magnetic strips containing actual credit card numbers.

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