Three Puerto Rican men indicted for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft where arrested Friday following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigation. According to the ICE investigation, Harry Maysonet, Angel Jimenez and Carlos Velez De Jesus, enriched themselves with monies illegally obtained from the Pentagon Federal Credit Union (PFCU) by submitting fraudulent automobile…
Category: ID Theft
Spring man with cache of others’ credit cards is sentenced
Mary Flood reports: When postal agents broke down the door of a Spring man’s home last April he was on a cell phone and had two credit cards in his hands that were not in his name. Agents found 15 more cards in other people’s names hidden in clothing pockets and other places around his…
Arrest leads to large cache of stolen credit cards, driver’s licences, computers
Florence Loyie reports: City police found a stash of stolen credit cards, driver’s licences, debit cards and computers when they arrested a man wanted on 141 warrants last Friday. Officers in the downtown division special projects team were told David Shawn Tidman, 25, was at a residence near 145th Avenue and 27th Street. […] Police…
S.Korea to probe huge online data leak
Another contender for a future Top 10 list: South Korea said Friday it would launch a probe into security systems of major retailer Shinsegae and 24 other companies after private data on some 20 million customers was leaked. The move came a day after police arrested three South Koreans for selling private information, including IDs,…
TD Bank worker charged with fraud
Jim Walsh reports: A former switchboard operator for TD Bank in Mount Laurel provided customer information to accomplices who withdrew more than $200,000 from victims’ accounts, federal authorities say. Talayah Little, 26, of Hainesport, conspired with a co-worker to obtain computerized customer data, such as account and driver’s license numbers, said the U.S. Attorney’s Office…
(follow-up) PA: Accused card skimmer indicted
As a follow-up to a case previously covered (here), Keith Phucas reports: A Philadelphia man was indicted in federal court Thursday for allegedly skimming numerous credit card accounts of customers at a Plymouth Meeting pizza restaurant. Darnell Greene, 24, was charged with access device fraud, conspiracy to commit access device fraud and aggravated identity theft,…