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KY: Business Owner Pleads Guilty To Wire Fraud For Stealing $809,205.43 From Victims

Posted on May 12, 2016 by Dissent

Did no one check their bank statements to see that they were having deductions made that they hadn’t approved? Or did they? Mark Allen Hartley, the owner of Patriot Computers, a Virginia corporation, entered pleas of guilty today, in United States District Court, before Chief Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr., to multiple wire fraud charges…

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Experian/Court Ventures/InfoSearch identity theft lawsuit remanded to state court

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Dissent

On Friday, U.S. District Judge James Selna sent a lawsuit against Experian, Court Ventures, and InfoSearch back to Orange County Superior Court, denying the defendants’ motion to dismiss outright. The case is Patton v. Experian, and I blogged about it when it was first filed last year. I’ve also blogged, in the past, about how outrageous it…

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FL: Former Tampa police employee gets 2 years for ID theft, fraud

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Dissent

WFTV reports an update to a case I’ve covered previously on this blog. Tonia Bright, a former Tampa Police Department civilian employee, was indicted last September for her role in a fraud scheme. According to the indictment, Bright misused her access to local, state, and federal law enforcement databases, including the National Crime Information Center (NCIC)…

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Texas man pleaded guilty for IRS ‘Get Transcript’ scam

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Dissent

Carten Cordell reports: A Houston man pleaded guilty on May 9 to claiming fraudulent tax refunds with information stolen from an IRS database. Denzel Roberts, 24, is charged with theft of public money for his role in a scheme to file bogus tax returns with information taken from the “Get Transcript” database, an online feature that…

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PA: Local TD Bank employee charged in identity theft scheme

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Dissent

Jeff Blumenthal reports: A former TD Bank employee was indicted Monday for allegedly stealing customer information and selling it to co-conspirators, who in turn used the data to run an identity theft scheme. Michael Tuffour<, 27, of Philadelphia was charged with one count of bank fraud and three counts of aggravated identity theft. Read more on Philadelphia…

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Member Of Large-Scale, $5 Million ATM Skimming Scheme Sentenced To More Than Seven Years In Prison

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Dissent

A Chicago man was sentenced today to 89 months in prison for his role in a large-scale, long-running, and lucrative scheme to steal bank customer account information – commonly referred to as “ATM skimming” – by installing hidden card-reading devices on ATMs throughout New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Florida, and elsewhere, U.S. Attorney Paul J….

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