Kristin Maiorano reports: A local security breach with credit and debit cards has been linked to a national company. Lafayette Police detective B.T. Brown said the security issue affected the Camilles Sidewalk Cafe restaurants in the area. But Brown said the breach was strictly through Camilles’ parent company, Beautiful Brands International. “They [local Camilles franchises]…
Category: ID Theft
Former Bank of New York Mellon computer tech pleads guilty
The Associated Press reports that Adeniyi Adeyemi, a former computer technician at Bank of New York Mellon, pleaded guilty to computer tampering and other charges. Adeyemi reportedly admitted to stealing 2,000 other employees’ identities and then using their ID’s for years to loot about $1 million from charities. Adeyemi had been indicted in October…
Miami Man Indicted for Purchasing, Selling and Using Stolen Credit Card Information
A Miami man was charged yesterday with buying, selling and using stolen credit card information. Juan Javier Cardenas was charged in a three-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury with conspiracy to traffic in unauthorized credit card numbers and to possess unauthorized credit card numbers with intent to defraud; trafficking in unauthorized credit card…
FTC Obtains Court Order Halting International Scheme Responsible For More Than $10 Million In Unauthorized Charges On Consumers’ Credit and Debit Cards
At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal court has halted an elaborate international scheme that used identity theft to place more than $10 million in bogus charges on consumers’ credit and debit cards, pending a trial. More than a million consumers were hit with one-time charges of $10 or less, and their…
WA: Leader of ID Theft Ring Sentenced to 6 Years
Jeania Andrea Dyson, 36, was sentenced this week in U.S. District Court in Seattle to six years in prison and five years of supervised release for Bank Fraud, Social Security Number Misuse, and Aggravated Identity theft. Dyson was the leader of an identity theft ring that would use stolen identities to open “instant credit” accounts…
Former Bank of America teller sentenced for fraud
A former Bank of America teller was sentenced this week in federal court for bank fraud and identity fraud. Jeffrey C. Gautreaux, 26, of Peabody, Massachusetts was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton to 41 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, with an order to pay $…