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Category: ID Theft

The fish rots from the head: Illinois drivers license exec accused of providing customer personal info to ID thieves for gift cards, sports tickets

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Dissent

Amy Alderman reports: A 58-year-old executive of the Illinois Secretary of State’s drivers license division surrendered today to allegations that he gave personal information he found in the Libertyville customer database to identity thieves in exchange for gift cards and sports tickets. According to David Druker, spokesman for Secretary of State Jesse White’s office, Charles…

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(follow-up) Romanian national pleads guilty to conspiracy in skimming

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Dissent

A Romanian national pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiring with another Romanian national to skim customer account information from PNC Bank ATM machines in Western Pennsylvania, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced in a press release last week. Alexandru Razvan Serb, 39 pleaded guilty on Dec. 1, 2010, to one…

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Merchant sues U.S. Bank over chargebacks, alleges bank covered up breach

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Dissent

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…

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MD woman pleads guilty in tax fraud scheme that misused children’s identity information

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Dissent

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,…

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PA man sentenced for using investors’ identities for credit card fraud

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Dissent

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…

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(update) Ringleader pleads in S.A.’s largest ID theft case

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Dissent

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)…

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