Matt Olsen reports: Police say hackers stole credit card information from dozens of diners who all ate at a restaurant. While investigators have cleared the restaurant of any wrongdoing, the owner tells KVUE he is taking steps to restore the business that’s been lost due to the fraud. By all appearances it was business as usual…
Category: ID Theft
NY: Mamaroneck Staples Cashier Charged in $181K Fraud
Brian Donnelly reports: A cashier at the Staples in Mamaroneck has been charged with stealing, then selling, 50 customers’ credit card numbers, leading to $181,800 in credit card fraud, according to a Westchester County Police press release. Valerie Fajardo, a 21-year-old from the Bronx, was arrested at the store on 2444 Boston Post Road on…
Nearly 200 Baton Rouge high school students fall victim to identity theft
Amber Stegall reports: The Baton Rouge Police Department is conducting an identity theft investigation involving at least 187 potential victims, all students at a Baton Rouge high school, and the suspect in the case is a 17-year-old student from the school. The investigation began on January 17, 2012 when Uniformed Patrol officers conducted a traffic…
Nigerian Man Sentenced For Large Credit Card Fraud Scheme
U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on January 23, 2012, Adekunle Olufemi Adetiloye, a citizen of Nigeria and resident of Canada, was sentenced by U.S. District Chief Judge Ralph R. Erickson to 17 years and 10 months in federal prison for one of the largest and most complex credit card schemes in North Dakota banking…
NY ID theft scam has victims in 30 states
AP reports: Two New York women are facing grand larceny and other charges after a prosecutor said they posted phony Craigslist ads for nonexistent jobs and apartments and then used respondents’ personal information to obtain state income tax refunds, bank loans and credit cards in the victims’ names. Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said…
NC: Deputies: Windstream employee stole ‘numerous’ customer accounts in fraud
Nathan Hardin reports: A Mt. Pleasant man turned himself in this morning after authorities issued warrants for his arrest. Deputies said he stole “numerous” customer accounts for more than a year while he was working as a Windstream employee. Authorities said Walter Darnell Austin, 45, used the financial information of Windstream internet customers to buy…