Stephanie Russo reports: Mesa police arrested a former bank employee who they said used a stolen identity and her own address to apply for credit cards, court records state. An investigation into a reported credit card theft led officers to Esther J. Hulse, a former Arizona Federal Credit Union employee from Phoenix, Wednesday morning, court…
Category: ID Theft
Coffee shop’s employee arrested over credit card fraud in Jakarta
The National police’s special crimes unit has arrested a credit card fraud suspect, identified as DDB, 26, an employee with the US-based Starbucks coffee shop in Jakarta. The unit chief Sr. Comr. Winston Tommy Watuliu said the suspect, a university graduate, collected data of the credit cards from the coffee shop customers’ receipts, as quoted…
CA: Tax Preparer Accused of Ripping Off Identities of Customers
A tax preparer accused of using the names and Social Security numbers of current and former clients to file false tax returns to obtain refunds was arraigned Thursday on multiple federal charges. A 34-count indictment alleges Neil A. Thomsen, 62, used his Internal Revenue Service electronic filing number to set up accounts with two banks…
Akron man could face 40 years in prison after stealing credit card info from mother’s business
Tonya Sams reports: A 46-year-old Akron man faces a maximum of 40 years in prison after pleading guilty Friday in Summit County Common Pleas Court for stealing credit card information from customers at his mother’s dry cleaning business and writing bad checks to the state. Michael Bukuts was guilty of engaging in a pattern of…
Ukrainian brought to NYC to face cybercrime charge
The Associated Press reports that Egor Shevelev is being held without bond in NYC after pleading not guilty to enterprise corruption and other charges. The 24-year-old from Kiev was arrested while vacationing in Greece in 2008. He was extradited to New York last week. Manhattan prosecutors say he amassed 75,000 stolen credit-card numbers. They say…
Black Market Travel Agents
Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that 38 defendants from across the United States have been charged in a series of indictments that allege an extensive network of black market travel agents who used the stolen identities of thousands of victims as part of a multi-million dollar fraud…