Paula McMahon reports: A Lauderdale Lakes woman, who admitted she stole the identities of about 18 AT&T customers, has been sentenced to two years and 10 months in federal prison, prosecutors said Thursday. Chouman Emily Syrilien, 25, of Lauderdale Lakes, who is also an amateur rap artist known as Nootchi Bankzz, pleaded guilty earlier this…
Category: ID Theft
University of California Santa Barbara alerts employees using direct deposit to potential check fraud
The University of California – Santa Barbara has sent out an update to a breach alert it sent out in July after some employees reported possible check fraud involving their personal checking accounts. In a letter posted on the California Attorney General’s website today, Jim Corkill, Director of Business and Financial Services writes: Our investigation recently…
Erie feds: IDs stolen from NYC welfare records
Lisa Thompson reports: More than 400 of the identities stolen in a massive Erie federal wire fraud case appear to have been lifted from the case records of New York City public assistance clients, a federal prosecutor said. Federal investigators believe one of the Nigerian defendants recently indicted in Erie in a $10 million identity…
Four Arizona residents sentenced in tax refund fraud scheme that used prisoners’ information
On July 28, 2014, Kristi Marie Egger, 34, of Mesa, Ariz., and Michael Wayne Egger, 47, of Mesa, Ariz., were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton after each pleaded guilty to two felony counts for conspiring to defraud the United States by filing false federal income tax returns. Kristi Egger was sentenced to…
Staten Island Woman Admits Role In $65 Million Stolen Identity Income Tax Refund Fraud Scheme
NEWARK, N.J. – A Staten Island, New York, woman admitted her role in one of the nation’s largest and longest running stolen identity refund fraud schemes ever identified, in which more than 8,000 fraudulent U.S. income tax returns sought more than $65 million in tax refunds and resulted in losses to the United States of…
GA: Identity Thieves Sentenced To Federal Prison
Maario Coleman and Angela Russell have been sentenced for stealing the identities of Emory University and University of Georgia students in order to apply for student loans. “Just as these law and medical students were graduating to embark on their careers, they found themselves victims of identity theft,” said United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates….