Phil Muncaster reports: Police in the Netherlands are set to email 20,000 possible fraud victims urging them to change their account details, after discovering their credentials had been stolen by a man arrested last year on suspicion of multiple cybercrime offences. Police revealed the arrest of the 35-year-old man last October. He was cuffed on suspicion of hacking, fraud…
Category: ID Theft
VA: Former Nurse Sentenced for ID Theft and Bank Fraud
There’s an update to a case previously noted on this site. Capri M. Williams, 26, of Richmond, was sentenced today to three years in prison for identity theft and bank fraud crimes related to her stealing personal identifying information (PII) of hundreds of patients while employed at Commonwealth Primary Care (CPC), Inc., in Richmond. Williams…
FL Four Defendants Sentenced to Prison for Stolen Identity Tax Fraud Scheme
Four defendants have been sentenced to federal prison for their participation in a stolen identity tax fraud scheme. Wolf Obin, 32, of Miami-Dade, was sentenced to 64 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release. Stanley Moscova, 28, of Miami-Dade, was sentenced to 60 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised…
Founder of Fake Prison Charity sentenced for stealing Prisoner Identities, Claiming Millions of Dollars in false Tax Refunds
Qadir Shabazz, a/k/a Deangelo Moore, a/k/a Deangelo Muhammad, has been sentenced to a prison term of 23 years, one month for running a massive, multi-state fraud scheme in which he operated a fake prison charity that stole thousands of prisoners’ identities to apply for millions of dollars in fraudulent income tax refund dollars. Shabazz was…
PBSO deputy tied to $283,000 identity-theft scam
Mike Stucka reports: The Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy arrested Thursday on federal identity-theft charges is tied to a longtime scamster who pleaded guilty this year to a $283,00 identity theft, as well as being part of a $387,000 fraud to rent dozens of houses that weren’t his. A Homeland Security agent’s affidavit against deputy Frantz Felisma, 42,…
Derrell Lee of Atlanta Sentenced To 32 Months For Aggravated Identity Theft And Bank Fraud Involving TD Bank Branches In Vermont
The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Derrell Lee, 25, of Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced today for his role in a scheme to defraud TD Bank through the cashing or attempted cashing of fraudulent checks in Vermont using the stolen personal information and bank account information of other…