And what is your teenager doing for work this summer? Vivian Luk reports: A 15-year-old boy was arrested last month at a Richmond gas station for connection to a credit card skimming operation. […] The boy is suspected of copying credit card information from several hundred customers without their knowledge, and then selling the stolen…
Category: ID Theft
CT man pleads guilty in large ID theft and fraud scheme
David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Luis Melendez, also known as “Ramiro Morales-Cruz,” 33, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today before Senior United States District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to one count of access device fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft stemming from a…
Former U. Akron student pleads guilty to damaging systems, DDoS attacks
Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced Wednesday Mitchell L. Frost, age 23, of Bellevue, Ohio, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy A. Vecchiarelli and pleaded guilty to a two-count Information filed on May 14, 2010, which charged Frost with causing damage to a protected computer system and possessing…
Leader of ID theft ring sentenced to prison
Armon Leon Maiden, 61, of Inglewood, California, was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison and four years of supervised release for Aggravated Identity Theft and Bank Fraud. Maiden led a bank fraud ring that traveled to Seattle in November 2008, to steal from individual bank accounts. At sentencing U.S. District Judge Thomas Zilly said…
Flight school employee sentenced for debit card fraud
Troy Caleb Wood, 37, of Oregon City, Oregon, and formerly of Idaho Falls, Idaho, was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in federal prison for access device fraud, the U. S. Attorney’s Office announced. U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge also ordered Wood to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term, and to pay…
Edmonton travel agency owner charged in scam
Cigdem Iltan reports: The owner of a southeast Edmonton travel agency has been charged with allegedly using stored credit card data to fraudulently take $50,000 from his customers. Gurmeet Singh Mankoo, Payless Travel’s owner, has been charged with a series of alleged frauds that took place at the business between late 2009 and early 2010….