Officials at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., are warning airmen to watch their credit card balances after reports of credit card fraud on base. The instances of credit card fraud involved 20th Force Support Squadron buildings at Shaw. No Army and Air Force Exchange Service facilities were affected, said Lt. Col. Belinda Petersen, spokeswoman at…
Category: ID Theft
(Update) Miami Man Sentenced to 121 Months in Prison for Purchasing, Selling and Using Stolen Credit Card Information
Juan Javier Cardenas of Miami was sentenced yesterday in the Southern District of Florida to 121 months in prison for buying, trafficking and possessing stolen credit card information. U.S. District Court Judge K. Michael Moore also ordered Cardenas to serve 3 years of supervised release following his prison term, pay restitution in the amount of…
MN: Last of seven plead guilty to credit card fraud scheme targeting people at Minnesota restaurants
From the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota: The last of seven defendants pleaded guilty earlier today in federal court in St. Paul in connection with a credit card skimming operation that resulted in an estimated loss of more than $150,000. Appearing before United States District Court Judge Richard H. Kyle, Nancia Raquel Range, age 34,…
ND: East Grand Forks man to plead guilty in ID-theft case
Archie Ingersoll reports: An East Grand Forks man charged in an identity-theft case that involved dozens of local victims is expected to plead guilty at a Dec. 7 hearing. […] Lafferty, 28, faces 20 felony counts of identity theft as well as a felony theft charge. Criminal complaints accuse him of using the names and…
Five charged with stealing patient info as part of ID theft/fraud ring
More on a breach reported earlier in the week involving Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale: A criminal complaint was filed this week against five people who are accused of stealing patient information from Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale and a physician’s office in Aventura. Albert Anthony Andrulonis, 26, of Davie, Raushanah Bowleg, 33,…
(ALDI update) Five Star Bank hit by debit-card fraud
Jonathan D. Epstein reports: A debit-card security breach at a discount grocery chain that operates in 11 states is costing Five Star Bank as much as $850,000 in fraud losses. Financial Institutions, the Warsaw-based parent of the bank, expects to suffer a pretax loss of about $750,000 to $850,000 in the fourth quarter in connection…