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IDENTITY THIEF USES NAME/SOCIAL SECURITY CARD OF DECEASED, GETS DRIVERS LICENSE AND OPENS CHECKING ACCOUNT - 7 YEAR SENTENCE
Omaha, Nebraska - May 20, 2008 - A 52 year old man was sentenced by the Honorable Laurie Smith Camp, United States District Judge to seven years (84 months) of imprisonment for his spree of criminal conduct which included fraud and identity theft throughout 2006. The identity thief presented himself to the Social Security Administration [...]
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“WARDRIVE” - IDENTITY THIEVES SCANNED THE AIRWAVES FROM THEIR CARS - DISCOVERED WIRELESS ACCESS POINTS
BOSTON, MA - (September 22, 2008) - A Miami, Florida man was convicted today in federal court of conspiring to electronically break into corporate computer networks, download customers’ credit and debit card information, and fraudulently use and sell that information.
United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan and Steven Ricciardi, Special Agent in Charge of the [...] -
Allegedly Stole Identity Information to Obtain Over $1 Million in Credit, and Over $184,000 in Goods and Services
Baltimore, Maryland - Earlier this year a grand jury indicted six individuals on fraud and aggravated identity theft charges in a scheme in which they obtained credit in excess of $1.15 million, and goods and services worth over $184,000, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein. The indictment was returned [...]
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ONGOING SECRET SERVICE NETWORK INTRUSION INVESTIGATION - MORE INDICTMENTS
(Washington, D.C.)(August 5, 2008) – Indictments were unsealed today in Boston and San Diego against 11 individuals in a U.S. Secret Service investigation into what is believed to be the largest hacking and identity theft case ever prosecuted in the United States. The highprofile cyber investigation by the Secret Service uncovered the theft and sale [...]
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Fraud and Identity Theft in connection with Mortgage Loan
July 18, 2008, San Diego, CA - United States Attorney Karen P. Hewitt announced that a Lake Forest, California man was sentenced today by the Honorable Dana M. Sabraw, United States District Judge in San Diego to serve 61 months in prison for bank fraud, false use of a social security account number, money laundering [...]


