The Virgin Islands Consortium reports: FirstBank VI is in the middle of a massive security breach crisis, with many of its Visa Debit card customers blocked from using their cards and some customers claiming to have had “thousands of dollars” stolen from their personal accounts. Banco Popular and Scotia Bank on St. Croix are also reporting security breaches…
Category: ID Theft
TX: Woman wanted in $800K ID theft scheme
Nicole Perez reports: A woman accused of stealing the identities of more than 800 people, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of fraudulent tax returns, is on the run. Thalia Diaz Camareno, who also goes by the name of Irene Carrero Echevarria, faces a 10-count indictment on charges including conspiracy to commit mail…
Florida student aid accounts used in ID theft affecting 644 victims
AP reports: Accounts used by South Florida college students to receive financial aid were used in a scheme to file fraudulent income tax returns using stolen identities. Miami U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer said Tuesday that 21 people have been charged, most of them current or former students at Miami Dade College. The students were using…
Citizens Bank Manager Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Identify Theft Scheme
Paige McAtee reports: A Stoneham bank supervisor was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison on Monday for his involvement in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme in which he opened bank accounts to receive fraudulent proceeds. Carlos Mauricio Gonzalez, 30, of Revere, opened business and personal bank accounts that were to receive proceeds from…
WA: Former Pacific man sentenced to 80 months in prison for identity theft
Robert Whale reports: Vinod Ram skimmed diesel fuel credit cards belonging to commercial trucking companies then got cohorts to persuade truckers to fill ‘em up in exchange for cash. And in the 12 months that passed before the law caught up with him, Ram saddled those trucking companies and their credit card companies with $582,000…
FL: Former Regions banker gets prison time, $1M+ judgment in ID theft
Margie Manning has an update to an insider breach first noted on this blog in May 2011: A federal judge in Tampa sentenced a former personal banker for Regions Bank to seven-and-a-half years in prison for her role in an identity theft scheme. The court also entered a money judgment of $1.17 million against the former banker, Howayda Hamdan….