Dan Goodin reports: Credit card fraudsters may have pocketed as much as $500,000 over the past month by pursuing a new type of attack that exploits a major blind spot in payment processors’ defenses, an analyst said. The “flash attacks” recruit hundreds of money mules who go to ATMs throughout the US and almost simultaneously…
Category: ID Theft
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Megan Fox reports: A woman who was accused and convicted of identity theft for stealing funds from her employer has been accused again for similar charges. Aurea Picasso was hired as a director of Welfare for Hanover County, near Chicago, while awaiting trial for stealing from the State welfare system while employed there. However, while…
Florida businessman to be sentenced for stealing patient records from Jackson Memorial
Jay Weaver reports: A Miami-Dade businessman who pleaded guilty to pilfering thousands of patient records to sell to lawyers for injury claims faces up to 12 years in prison at his sentencing in federal court Monday afternoon. Ruben E. Rodriguez, 62, admitted he stole Jackson Memorial Hospital records of patients’ names, addresses, telephone numbers and…
ID theft: Stuck in the middle with you
Jeff Barker reports: An airman who says she returned home from deployment to find her identity stolen was unsuccessful in getting two agencies to file charges. The woman said she went to her old home in Crestview after getting back from Iraq to pick up her mail, and found a bill from the IRS for $1,307,…
Nigerian national sentenced to 102 months for role in airline ticket scam
Ademola Ismaila Adegoke, 43, of Accra, Ghana, was sentenced this week to 102 months in prison for using stolen credit card numbers to steal more than $400,000 from U.S. citizens. U.S. District Court Judge Liam O’Grady also ordered Adegoke to serve two years of supervised release following his prison term. The defendant has agreed to…
Surrey RCMP and Vancouver Police Department disrupt credit card fraud ring
An extensive number of charges are being considered against individuals in the Lower Mainland after the Surrey RCMP and the Vancouver Police Department teamed up to put a stop to a fraud ring operating out of Vancouver. The Surrey RCMP Combined Forces Identity Theft Team (CFITT) began a Fraud investigation after receiving information regarding a…