The former owner of Spoiled Rotten Day Spa in Aptos was arrested Friday after several clients reported several thousand dollars in fraudulent credit card charges paid to the spa appeared on their credit card statements. One victim reported that his credit card had been fraudulently used four times for a total of $9,600. Spa owner…
Category: ID Theft
Former Wachovia Bank employee sentenced for ID theft scheme
Marisol Morales, 40, of Philadelphia, was sentenced on March 16 to two years and one day in prison for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft stemming from her role in a scheme that defrauded her employer, Wachovia Bank, of more than $300,000. Morales had pleaded guilty on May 11, 2009 to four counts of aggravated…
Ca: Cops make major identity-theft bust
Allison Salz reports: An investigation that recovered more than 150 stolen IDs has Edmonton police urging everyone to protect their information. […] “Credit cards, Alberta health care, social insurance cards, that kind of documentation, which was being used to produce fraudulent identification,” says Dehid. ”This is a solid example of some of the activity that…
CA: 200 ID Theft Cases Traced to Burger Joint
Sam Cohen reports: Vacaville investigators are asking diners of a burger restaurant to check their bank statements following a string of identity thefts. Almost 200 people have been identified as victims in this identity theft case. Cops were first alerted to it in early March, and traced the credit card number thefts back to Nation’s…
Thousands in Europe Faced Theft by Phuket ATM ‘Skim Scam’ Gang
Pathomporn Kaenkrachang reports: Four tourists from Romania have been accused of perpetrating an ATM credit card scam that stretched from London to Latvia and on to Thailand, delivering them 100 million baht and involving the theft of about 7000 credit card details. The four appeared today at Phuket’s Tourist Police HQ. One, Bogdan Constantin Ene,…
Credit unions issue warnings on debit cards
There’s been a breach somewhere…. but we don’t know which merchant yet. King Ring and Bill Fortier report from Massachusetts: Customers of two local credit unions are being warned to keep a close eye on accounts linked to their debit cards after some apparently fraudulent activity was noticed. Both GFA Federal Credit Union in Gardner…