An East Grand Forks man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing the identities of “dozens and dozens” of area residents and applying for credit cards in their names, said Lt. Rahn Farder of the Grand Forks Police Department. The total number of victims is not yet known, but Farder estimates the figure at about…
Category: ID Theft
WI: New information released on ATM fraud investigation
Press release from Eau Claire, Wisconsin police: Eau Claire Police Investigators have new information regarding the credit card scanner that was found at the US Bank ATM on Golf Rd. Investigation has determined that the same individuals may have placed the scanner at the same ATM at about 12:30PM on Friday, 9/17/2010 and picked it…
(follow-up) Three black market travel agents plead guilty
Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that three defendants have pleaded guilty to their roles in a conspiracy among black market travel agents who used the stolen identities of thousands of victims as part of a multi-million dollar fraud scheme to purchase airline tickets for their customers. Some…
(Update) Lincoln golf courses, restaurant sources of credit card leaks
Zach Pluhacek and Cory Matteson provide the latest update to recent reports of card fraud in the Lincoln area: Two Lincoln golf courses and a restaurant say they are the sources of more than 200 credit and debit card numbers stolen recently from Lincoln-area residents. In a news release Friday, Wilderness Ridge golf course and…
Za: Five appear in court over card skimming
Two foreign nationals and three South African women appeared briefly in the East London Magistrate’s Court yesterday to make a formal bail application after they were arrested for alleged credit card skimming. Simeon Toshen from Bulgaria and Anthony Uchena from Nigeria appeared alongside co-accused Rachel Harden and Lungiswa Tayati – both from Johannesburg – and…
In: Gangs behind credit card fraud held
Fifteen persons have been arrested for indulging in credit card fraud by obtaining card details of customers from some petrol bunks in the city. […] Speaking to mediapersons here on Friday, Commissioner of Police T. Rajendran said one gang, headed by Manoj Kumar of Pallikaranai, had been operating in Chennai and other parts of the…