Over in India: A Former assistant manager with two multinational banks has been arrested for credit card fraud estimated at Rs 4 crore. [Note from Dissent: that may, or may not be, about $821,000 — I’m horrible on currency conversions, help!] According to the police, Ravi Kumar Sindhu, 23, cheated at least 75 people in…
Category: ID Theft
Pixily user e-mail addresses released
The private e-mail addresses of several hundred customers of Waltham, MA-based Pixily were accidentally shared with other customers Saturday in the aftermath of an Internet routing snafu that left many users unable to reach the document-scanning service for several hours. The breach, in which names intended for the “bcc” line of a customer service e-mail…
Ex-MoneyGram boss in money laundering case
7NewsBelize.com reports on this case out of Belize: The money laundering scandal at the Coye Moneygram Agency is big – apart from one point five million dollars in cash stuffed in suitcases, and seven people charged with money laundering, we’ve also got wholesale identity theft and fraudulent misuse of the entire driver’s license database. But…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: As a follow-up to a case previously covered on this site, Atin and Iris Singh have been sentenced to two years in state prison for using a skimmer and stealing customer data from Roti’s Bistro and using it for fraudulent purposes. There were reportedly about 60 victims. More. Jason Lennon Bell,…
Former AmEx employee stole account numbers
Two Phoenix men are accused of stealing thousands of American Express card numbers and swindling more than a million dollars from customers. Timothy Curley, of Phoenix, is at the center of the Secret Service investigation. […] Police discovered during their investigation that Curley had not only worked as a computer database analyst for American Express,…
Bluegrass CU loan officer sentenced
The United States Attorney’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation jointly announced that a loan officer in Ashland was sentenced on July 6 for using a scheme to embezzle more than $165,000 from her employer. Crystal Smith, 36, of Greenup, Ky. was sentenced to 57 months in prison by United States District Court Judge…