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IDENTITY AND CREDIT CARD THIEF SENTENCED TO 70 MONTHS IN PRISON
LAS VEGAS - Tuesday August 5, 2008 - A man who used stolen personal identification information and fraudulently obtained debit and credit cards to finance his lavish lifestyle was sentenced today to 70 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $370,819 in restitution, announced Greg Brower, United States Attorney for the District of [...]
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EURASIAN ORGANIZED CRIME TASK FORCE MEMBERS ARREST 12 INDIVIDUALS FOLLOWING FEDERAL CREDIT CARD FRAUD AND IDENTITY THEFT CHARGES
LAS VEGAS - December 9, 2008 - Twelve persons have been arrested and charged with federal credit card fraud and identity theft crimes following a two-year long investigation by a joint federal, state and local organized crime task force, announced Greg Brower, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
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ALLEGED THAT WAITER RECORDED NAMES AND CREDIT CARD NUMBERS OF CUSTOMERS, THEN MADE ONLINE PURCHASES
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – December 11, 2008 - John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former Kansas City, Mo., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for stealing identity information from customers at A restaurant where he worked, then using that information to [...]
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MAN SENTENCED FOR IDENTITY THEFT - SEARCHES THROUGH TRASH DUMPSTERS, THEN OPENED CREDIT CARD ACCOUNTS OVER THE INTERNET
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – March 4, 2008 - John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Blue Springs, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for stealing the identity of an Army major who was stationed in Kuwait.
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MAN CHARGED WITH FALSE PASSPORT APPLICATION AND AGGRAVATED IDENTITY THEFT
BOSTON, MA - October 30, 2008 - A Worcester man was charged today in federal court with making a false statement on a United States passport application and aggravated identity theft.
United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan; Daniel Petrole, Deputy Inspector General, Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Labor; Bruce M. Foucart, Special Agent in [...] -
MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO USING FAKE 1-800 NUMBERS TO STEAL CREDIT CARD AND PERSONAL IDENTITY INFORMATION
November 24, 2008 - Terrence Berg, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, announced today that a Detroit resident, who used fake 1-800 numbers to steal hundreds of credit card numbers and other personal identity information, entered a plea of guilty to the charges of credit card fraud, mail fraud, and aggravated [...]
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JUVENILE COMPUTER HACKER PLEADS GUILTY
Boston, MA. - November 18, 2008 - A male juvenile, who has been widely known in the hacker underground by his online moniker, “Dshocker,” pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to computer intrusion, interstate threats, and wire fraud, stemming from hacking, botnet and “swatting” activities. In accordance with federal law, the juvenile was [...]
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FORMER INMATE ARRESTED FOR HACKING PRISON COMPUTER TO ACCESS PRISON MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
BOSTON, MA - November 6, 2008 - A former inmate of the Plymouth County Correctional Facility in Plymouth, Massachusetts was arrested late yesterday in North Carolina, on an Indictment charging him with damage to the prison’s computer network and identity theft. The inmate is alleged to have obtained the password to a prison management program [...]
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HACKER CHARGED WITH PROVIDING DATA THEFT TOOL IN NATIONAL IDENTITY THEFT CASE
BOSTON, MA - October 29, 2008 - A New York man was charged today in U.S. District Court with providing a “sniffer” program used to monitor and capture data including customers’ credit and debit card information as it traveled across corporate computer networks.
United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan and Steven Ricciardi, Special Agent in Charge [...] -
MAIL FRAUD - FRAUDULENTLY OBTAINED DRIVER’S LICENSES AND LICENSE PLATES - POSSESSION OF DOCUMENT- MAKING IMPLEMENTS
BOSTON, MA - October 8, 2008 - A Springfield man was convicted today in U.S. District Court of mail fraud and possessing document-making implements.
United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan, Jerry Carmody, Acting Inspector in Charge of the United States Postal Inspection Service and Bruce M. Foucart, Special Agent In Charge of the United States Immigration [...] -
JURY CONVICTS FORMER POLICE OFFICER FOR MAIL FRAUD AND CREDIT CARD FRAUD
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – September 4, 2008 - John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Springfield, Mo., police officer was convicted by a federal jury today for using his ex-wife’s identity in a scheme to defraud a credit card company and an online payment service.
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STUDENTS WARNED ABOUT INTERNET PREDATORS
Middle School Internet Safety Program Reaches 147 Schools in 49 Counties
Contact: Bob Teig
“Be safe online.” That is the message being conveyed this school year to more than 40,000 Iowa students by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa and others in the District. That also was the message conveyed by United [...] -
Former Employee of Healthcare Company Steals Identifying Information of Insured Clients and Gives to Identity Thief
St. Louis, Missouri - (April 2008) - An identity thief was sentenced to 14 years on charges of aggravated identity theft, conspiracy and escape from custody. The charges resulted from his organization of a ring of individuals who used the identifying information of insureds of a major health care company and applicants for credit at [...]
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WOMAN SENTENCED FOR CREDIT CARD FRAUD AND AGGRAVATED IDENTITY THEFT - CAUSED ARREST WARRANT TO BE ISSUED IN VICTIM’S NAME
Baltimore, Maryland - April 2008 - U.S. District Judge Andre M. Davis sentenced a 33 year old woman from Edgewater, Maryland, to three years and one day in prison followed by three years of supervised release for credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. [...]
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MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO CREDIT CARD FRAUD, USING PERSONAL INFORMATION AFTER STEALING A LIST OF NAMES FROM THE 1980′S
St. Louis, MO: Earlier in 2008, a St. Louis man pled guilty to stealing a list of names and identity information to obtain credit and debit cards, United States Attorney Catherine L. Hanaway announced today.
According to the facts filed with the court, in December 2007, the man was arrested by St. Louis City Police on [...] -
PERUVIAN NATIONAL SENTENCED FOR CREDIT CARD CONSPIRACY THAT TARGETED ELDERLY WOMEN
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – October 9, 2008 - John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a third Peruvian national has been sentenced in federal court for participating in a conspiracy to steal credit cards from elderly women, then make thousands of dollars in purchases with the [...]
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FORMER MORTGAGE BROKER SENTENCED FOR MORTGAGE FRAUD, IDENTITY THEFT
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – (July 15, 2008) John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lee’s Summit, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for a mortgage fraud scheme in which she used stolen identities to purchase homes in Lee’s Summit.
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Two Plead Guilty to Wire Fraud That Involved Stealing Hundreds of identities - Primarily From Nursing Home Residents
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – (April 16, 2008) - John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two co-defendants pleaded guilty in federal court today to wire fraud for their roles in a multi-million dollar scheme that involved stealing the identities of hundreds of victims, primarily nursing home residents, [...]
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OWNERS/OPERATORS OF ASIAN MASSAGE PARLORS PLEAD GUILTY TO COERCING PROSTITUTION, MONEY LAUNDERING, IDENTITY THEFT
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – (AUGUST 21, 2008) - John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that three owners and operators of Asian massage parlors in Johnson County, Kan., pleaded guilty in federal court today to engaging in human trafficking by coercing their employees, whom they recruited from China, to [...]
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Personal Identifying Information stolen from Car Dealership & Real Estate Loan Brokerage Firm - One man gets 19 years in Prison
Kansas City, Mo. – John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two more defendants were sentenced in federal court today for participating in an identity theft conspiracy. A 40 year old man of Kansas City, Mo., and a 29 year old woman of Plano, Texas, were sentenced [...]
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