Janice Broach reports: Investigators believe credit and debit card thefts at the Jason’s Deli on Ridgeway in Memphis are linked to a virus that infected computers at the restaurant. “The computers received a virus that was unknown before this event,” Special Agent Rick Harlow of the U.S. Secret Service said Tuesday. “It was a new…
Category: ID Theft
Miami man pleads guilty in ID theft case
Grant Gross reports the follow-up on a case previously covered on this site, here. A Miami man has pleaded guilty to two identity-theft related charges after federal agents found more than 26,000 credit card numbers stored on his computer, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Juan Javier Cardenas, 45, purchased stolen credit card numbers over…
Last of identity theft/credit card scammers in Russian scheme is sentenced
John Agar reports the follow-up on an ID theft ring linked to Russia (previous coverage here): The last of five suspects sentenced in a credit-card scheme linked to Russia was ordered Monday to spend three years in federal prison. Ameer Spinks, 25, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell. The judge also ordered…
MI: Condo Residents Victims Of Identity Theft
Residents living at a local apartment complex find themselves the victims of a nationwide identity theft scam. Many of the victims lost thousands of dollars before police froze their accounts. Police said a dozen residents of a Saline condo community, the Rolling Meadows Townhomes, have become victims of identity theft. Management sent out a warning…
ID thief who had Wells Fargo customer info sentenced
Jonah Hanneke Nelson was sentenced Thursday to 58 months in prison following a plea agreement to resolve ID theft and bank fraud charges mentioned previously on this site. As noted last year, when aw enforcement executed a search warrant on his home, they found the names and account numbers of 550 Wells Fargo bank customers. …
Banks Complicit in Fraud — Is it Systemic?
Naomi Wolf has followed up on her recent column about her experiences with WaMu and fraud by describing her shock at discovering how widespread such problems are and the e-mails she received from readers. Well, I certainly now felt less alone — but far more outraged and alarmed, on behalf of all of us, especially…