The trial of a Miami Beach, Fla., man and his driver for their roles in a telemarketing fraud and identity theft scheme that attempted to defraud financial institutions and their account holders throughout the United States of millions of dollars through the unauthorized and fraudulent debit of customer bank accounts, is scheduled to start with…
Author: Dissent
WA: Prolific ID thief sentenced to 4+ years in prison
Valorie A. Dade, 59, of Seattle, Washington, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 51 months in prison, five years of supervised release, and $34,338 in restitution for Bank Fraud, Social Security Number Misuse and Aggravated Identity Theft. In fashioning a long sentence, Chief U.S. District Judge Robert S. Lasnik cited Dade’s “overwhelming…
(follow-up) Springfield man pleads guilty to bank fraud, ID theft
Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that Bryan Thomas Ray, 32, of Springfield, Missouri pleaded guilty in federal court to two federal indictments that charged him in an identity theft and check-counterfeiting conspiracy and with passing counterfeit $100 bills in Springfield. The bank fraud scheme involved false identification documents…
(follow-up) Belleville woman sentenced to four years for fraud
A Belleville woman was sentenced Friday to more than four years in federal prison for fraud. Jennifer Lynn Schoenbeck, 31, was convicted of three counts wire fraud, four counts mail fraud and one count aggravated identity theft, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. She pleaded guilty to the charges on June…
Nineteen Indicted in Massive Cybercrime Conspiracy
Some readers may remember news reports in early 2009 about a raid on Core IP in Dallas. At the time, Matthew Simpson, CEO of Core IP, issued a statement that the raid related to the activities of a former customer. A number of bloggers and civil libertarians responded sympathetically to what they thought was an…
Hacking Takes Lead as Top Cause of Data Breaches
Hacking has topped human error as the top cause of reported data breaches for the first time since such tracking began in 2007, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center’s 2009 Breach Report. In its report, titled “Data Breaches: The Insanity Continues,” the non-profit ITRC found that 19.5 percent of reported breaches were due to…