A confessed professional identity thief pleaded no contest in state court yesterday to charges that could put her behind bars for the rest of her life. […] Audrey L. Collins, 44, pleaded no contest to racketeering, first-degree identity theft, first-degree theft and unauthorized possession of confidential personal information. […] When police arrested Collins and co-defendant…
Category: ID Theft
Dallas woman gets statutory maximum sentence in mail theft and aggravated ID theft case
Shannon Palmer, 42, of Dallas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to the statutory maximum sentence of seven years in federal prison, without parole, for mail theft and aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. Palmer, who has been in custody since her arrest…
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Charges Belarusian Creator of International Identity Theft Website
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Joseph M. Demarest, Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the FBI, announced today the unsealing of an indictment against Dmitry M. Naskovets—creator and operator of CallService.biz, an online business that assisted over 2,000 identity thieves in over…
More than 100 report credit card fraud in Cedar Falls
Tina Hinz reports: Reports of credit card fraud keep rolling into the Cedar Falls police department. About 100 victims had come forward as of noon Wednesday, said Police Chief Jeff Olson. Many are from the Cedar Falls area. Illegal charges, ranging from less than $100 to more than $1,000, have popped up in multiple states,…
Monoprice confirms data breach, notifies customers
On March 9, Brian Krebs broke the news that Monoprice had shut down its web site while it was investigating the possible compromise of customer credit and debit card information. On April 2, Monoprice’s President and CEO Jong S. Lee notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that on March 29, it determined that its…
(follow-up) Bank Worker Pleads Guilty to Hacking 100 ATMs
As a follow-up to a case reported here previously, Kim Zetter reports that a former Bank of America employee, Rodney Reed Caverly, pleaded guilty Tuesday to installing malware on more than 100 ATMs, and stealing $304,000 over a seven-month period. Authorities were able to recover at least $167,000 in cash after the worker told U.S….