Poshmark suspends account of fraudster who resold $823K worth of designer duds
Poshmark has suspended the account associated with a Michigan woman who allegedly stole $823,000 worth of clothing and resold the designer duds on the online secondhand marketplace.
Brandalene “Brandy” Horn, 42, was arrested Wednesday over the alleged scheme that netted her more than $750,000 in profit, according to federal prosecutors.
She allegedly peddled the stolen clothes from her Poshmark account, where she went by “cashhorn,” between April 2022 and February 2024.
On Thursday, Horn’s Poshmark profile was suspended, a company spokesperson confirmed to The Post.
For years, Horn allegedly resold stolen designer and luxury items from three unidentified rental companies, and even bragged about her high earnings in a private Poshmark sellers Facebook group.
“My closet insights for the current year,” she wrote alongside a screenshot, obtained by The Post, showing she had made $110,507 between January and May 2023. To make the whopping amount, she had sold 609 items.
In June, the alleged fraudster even bragged about how a “stalker” accused her of reselling stolen pieces from Rent the Runway and joked that if that was true, she’d “be in jail for grand theft.”
“I had a lady stalk me to social media last week [in June 2023] and accuse me of theft because I used a bunch of Rent the Runway photos in my listings,” she wrote. “I was like, ‘Lady, if that’s true, don’t ya think I’d be in jail for grand theft?'”
Horn allegedly created hundreds of accounts across the three websites, prosecutors said, and after she would receive the clothing, she would refuse to return the items.
The companies would try to charge Horn for the stolen items, but were unable to because she either disputed the charges with her credit union or canceled the card the purchase was associated with, prosecutors said.
Investigators learned about Horn’s alleged scheme after placing several orders from her and finding residue on the tags, which is suspected to be from where she had removed the heat-sensitive tag that allowed the companies to track the clothes.
Horn allegedly sold 1,063 stolen items between April 2022 and February 2024.
She was charged with one count of mail fraud, one count of wire fraud and one count of interstate transportation of stolen property, and faces 50 years in prison, if convicted.
