Adrienne Denise Stovall, 30, a former employee of a Montgomery area hospital, has been sentenced to 24 months and 1 day in federal prison for wire fraud and stealing the identities of patients, U.S. Attorney Leura G. Canary announced yesterday. Stovall was also sentenced to serve 4 years of supervised release upon completion of her…
Category: ID Theft
Houston woman who sold children’s SSN sentenced to prison
Carlin Joubert, 55, has been sentenced to a total of 24 months in federal prison for her role in providing Social Security numbers as well as fraudulent drivers’ licenses and Social Security cards to individuals who used them to obtain fraudulent home loans, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. At a hearing this…
Texas man sentenced to prison for ID theft and credit card fraud
Robert C. Flowers, 31, of Katy, Texas, has been sentenced by United States District Judge Nancy Atlas to serve more than five years in the federal penitentiary without parole for aggravated identity theft and credit card fraud, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. Judge Atlas sentenced Flowers to a total of 61 months…
(update) NZ asks FBI to help nail hackers
Jared Savage reports: The FBI has been asked to help police investigate an international cyber-crime syndicate that hacked into a council-owned carpark to steal credit card details from thousands of customers. The theft of credit card details from payment machines at the Downtown carpark in central Auckland was discovered in November. It had gone undetected…
Scottrade sues hacker
Barbara Leonard reports: A Russian hacker broke into online brokerage accounts and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from its customers in a “hack, pump and dump” scheme, Scottrade claims in Federal Court. Defendant Valery Maltsev responded in a statement that said, in part: “Scottrade investors didn’t even see that money were going away from…
Ca: More than 300 charges laid in fraud case
Two Edmonton men face over 300 identity theft and fraud charges after police busted a credit card and mail scam. Wilfred Usiayo, 41, and Frank Ejira Otoroh, 39, were both charged with 140 counts of obtaining and possessing identity information, as well as other charges relating to fraudulent activity around a mailbox. […] Officers seized…