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3 BANK EMPLOYEES FRAUDULENTLY ACCESSED CUSTOMER BANK ACCOUNTS - TRANSFERRED ACCOUNT INFORMATION TO CO-CONSPIRATORS
The following story was made public in 2007 by Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada. The story occurred in Las Vegas, Nevada when 16 individuals were charged in an identity theft and bank fraud conspiracy that involved bank insiders, counterfeit checks and the theft of customer account information.
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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 [...] -
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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THREE CHARGED WITH IDENTIFY THEFT OF DISABLED VETERANS AT BEDFORD V.A. HOSPITAL
BOSTON, MA - (September 29, 2008) Three Lowell residents were charged today in federal court with conspiracy, identity fraud, and access device fraud.
United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan, Jeffrey Hughes, Special Agent in Charge of the Northeast Field Office of the Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General and Stephen D. Ricciardi, Special Agent in Charge [...] -
“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 [...] -
Kentucky Pickpocket/Identity Thief Pleads Guilty
We wrote an article not long ago on pickpocketing and how the crime is committed with various diversions. In this article we are going to describe the ingenious distractions used by these identity thieves and hopefully we will all be the wiser. We do not want to use names, so we will call this [...]


