And yet another tax refund fraud scheme disclosed this week where they don’t tell us how the criminals acquired the identity information:
… a twenty (20) count indictment, filed on November 15, 2012, charging Josue Faustin, 20, of North Miami, with conspiracy, possession of unauthorized access devices, aggravated identity theft and theft of government property involving a debit card scheme in Broward County, Florida.
As set forth in the indictment, Faustin engaged in a fraud scheme using stolen identities to file fraudulent tax returns. The tax returns falsely claimed refunds and requested that the refunds be direct-deposited into Netspend debit card accounts, which the defendant had opened in the names of the unwitting identity theft victims. The defendant subsequently went to various ATM machines in Coral Springs, Broward County, and withdrew funds from the Netspend debit card accounts.