Susan Jacobson and Anika Myers Palm report on a case of inmate-orchestrated ID theft:
A state prison inmate orchestrated an identity-theft scheme that tricked hotel employees and guests into helping him obtain credit-card numbers and personal information, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said today.
Damion Andrico Goldsmith, 40, who has previous convictions for fraudulent use of personal identification, credit-card fraud, fraud and grand theft, had friends help him call hotels and ask room-service employees for the last numbers of rooms they had serviced, arrest papers show.
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Orlando hotel guests were not the only ones targeted. Tourists in Alabama, North Carolina and other states also were victimized in incidents going back to August 2009, the FDLE said.
Read more in the Orlando Sentinel.
I like the last line in a statement issued by the FDLE:
The individuals not previously incarcerated were arrested….
The coverage did not indicate the names of the hotels whose employees fell for the scam.
So… what sector, if any, does this breach get charged to? The business sector because employees gave out information that facilitated the crime? Or no?