Dan Browning reports on a lawsuit in Arizona where merchants are striking back at a bank over chargebacks when the merchant had allegedly done its part to prevent fraud and verify the card’s authenticity. A tiny mom- and daughter-owned company in Arizona is taking aim at U.S. Bank in a class-action lawsuit that alleges the…
Category: ID Theft
MD woman pleads guilty in tax fraud scheme that misused children’s identity information
Twanna Dorothea Campbell, aka “Twanna D. Gaines,” “ Twanna Campbell-Moore,” and “Mrs. T,” age 32, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty this week to conspiracy to file false tax returns and aggravated identity theft. According to her plea agreement, Campbell and another individual owned a tax preparation business that operated under various names, including Phoenix Tax World,…
PA man sentenced for using investors’ identities for credit card fraud
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Joseph P. Donahue, of Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania was sentenced Thursday to 121 months’ in prison and five years of supervised release by United States District Senior Judge James M. Munley. He was also order to pay in excess of $300,000 in restitution…
(update) Ringleader pleads in S.A.’s largest ID theft case
The 2006 theft of 17,000 customers’ credit card receipts from the Emily Morgan Hotel in San Antonio, Texas resulted in the largest case of ID theft the city has seen, as noted in previous coverage. A few elements of the case really struck me at the time the case made the news in 2009: (1)…
(Update) ALDI breach affected 17,000 New York residents
Back in October, I noted that the ALDI breach had affected 8,000 Maryland residents. New York State’s breach logs for October, posted online, indicates that ALDI had reported on October 1 that 17,000 NYS residents were affected. Given that the breach affected customers in 11 states and there are 25,000 affected in just two of…
(follow-up) Man admits tax scam using stolen patient data
Giovanna Fabiano reports the latest developments in a fraud scheme that victimized some of the most fragile among us: A(n Englewood) city man pleaded guilty Monday to participating in a scheme to file false tax returns, using information stolen from adult and pediatric cancer patients, among other victims. Jason Eaton, 28, told U.S. District Court…