Shayna Jacobs reports: Two ex-employees at Pret A Manger allegedly took a big bite out of customer’s wallets. Nigel McCollum, 22, and his gal pal Lenica Greene, 23, were hit with a massive indictment for stealing the identities of at least 100 customers through credit card skimmers, Manhattan prosecutors said Wednesday. Read more on NY…
Category: ID Theft
Former Georgia Tax Preparers Sentenced for Tax Refund Fraud
The Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that former professional tax return preparers Greene Wylie Sheppard, Sabrina Johnson-Lavant and Chandra Henderson were sentenced this month to serve 56 months, 18 months, and 8 months in prison, respectively, for conspiring to defraud the United States by filing false tax returns in order to…
‘Western Express’ credit-card fraud prosecution ends
Jeremy Kirk reports: The last member of a US$5 million global credit-card fraud ring was sentenced on Thursday in New York state court, ending an eight-year investigation and prosecution. Douglas Latta, 40, was sentenced to between 22 and 44 years in state prison, according to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. in a news release on…
OR: Computer virus blamed for Sandy credit card fraud cases
KATU reports: The reason for why about 30 people had their credit card and debit card numbers stolen in sandy: A computer malware or virus apparently infected a local merchant’s computer, police say. Investigators believe the business is Sandy’s Dairy Queen, but are still looking into other potential compromised businesses, such as the Fred Meyer…
Sacramento RT worker suspected in ID theft of 30 co-workers
A Sacramento Regional Transit (RT) employee was relieved of duty after allegedly stealing personal information from at least 30 co-workers to obtain thousands of dollars in payday loans, according to an internal memo. Watch the video on ABC.
How much did that meal really cost you?
Some days, it’s just disheartening how little progress we seem to have made in preventing some of the most common types of breaches. Today’s example is from Glenmont, New York: … everybody who has eaten at the Golden Town Buffet since June 15th through August 5th and used either a credit or debit card to…