A federal indictment unsealed yesterday in St. Paul charges 12 people who reside in Minnesota, California, and New York with orchestrating a $10 million bank fraud conspiracy that featured a network of bank employees and others, operating locally and nationally. What’s notable about this case is that it appeared to be a coordinated ring relying…
Category: ID Theft
Feds: Ring bought stolen credit card numbers, spent thousands in Central Florida
Amy Pavuk reports: Secret Service agents say seven members of a Central Florida crime ring spent hundreds of thousands of dollars with stolen credit card numbers, which were purchased over the Internet from people who hacked into business computers and obtained the data. […] The local Secret Service investigation began in September, when an agent…
Bank employee accused of selling account numbers
Brad Leibowitz reports: A bank employee is under arrest after police charged her with selling account numbers of customers. On Feb. 28, police department officers arrested TD Bank of Elmwood Park employee Davasia Williamson, 22, of Bogota, in connection with the selling of private bank account numbers. According to police reports, Williamson was selling personal…
Men Charged With Theft of 3,600 Credit Card Numbers From Los Altos & Mountain View Gas Pumps
Claudia Cruz reports: Two men from Southern California face felony charges after they placed credit card skimmers inside several gas pumps in Los Altos and Mountain View in December, according to the Santa Clara District Attorney’s Office. Prosecutors said Tuesday they filed eight felony counts against Boris Tumasyan, 24, and Sarkis Sarkisyan, 23, that included…
Virginia Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy and Credit Union Fraud
Darnell M. Barnwell, 25, of Norfolk, Va., pleaded guilty on March 4 in Norfolk federal court to conspiring to defraud the Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU) and to committing credit union fraud. Barnwell faces a maximum penalty of 60 years in prison and a fine of $2,000,000.00 when he is sentenced on June 6, 2011….
Tucson couple victimized by gas pump credit card scam
Jessica Chapin reports: A recent surge of card-skimming scams is still spreading through Tucson gas stations. Almost impossible to detect, thieves insert skimmers underneath the credit card swipe machines at a gas pump, taking information from anyone who pays outdoors. One couple learned the hard way how easily anyone can become a victim. […] Tucson…