Police have arrested three Turkish nationals who allegedly used fake debit cards to buy luxury goods in Bangkok. Ziya Ismet Gebologco, 54, Ozulmez Bekir, 37, and Falay Togan Ahmet, 34, were arrested yesterday with seven debit cards, a laptop computer and a digital camera at Seacon Square shopping mall on Srinakarin Road by Crime Suppression…
Category: ID Theft
FL: Federal credit card fraud investigation nets two Jacksonville arrests after $88,000 charged
Dan Scanlan reports: What investigators are calling a “sophisticated” scheme that opened dozens of fake lines of credit and racked up more than $88,000 on at least eight victims’ credit cards ended Tuesday with the arrest of two Jacksonville residents. The U.S. Secret Service said there could be more victims and suspects, and “a lot…
CO: Woman Accused Of Bilking 28 Victims
A grand jury has indicted a woman for identity theft, accusing her of stealing from 28 victims in the Denver metro area. Andrea Harris-Frazier, 54, was indicted Tuesday on 43 counts of theft over $15,000, forgery and attempted theft, according to the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office. A warrant has been issued for her arrest….
CO: Leader of ID theft ring sentenced
The leader of a mail- and identity-theft ring has been sentenced to more than 13 years in federal prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Denver said today. Prosecutors said Ronald Richard Creighton, 37, of Colorado Springs, and his accomplices stole mail after breaking into mailboxes in large apartment complexes in Denver and Colorado Springs. They…
MN: Counterfeit credit card defendant pleads guilty
James Walsh reports: Like dominos down the line from the first one tipped, federal investigators expect Wednesday’s guilty plea by a Fridley man to bring down an international counterfeit credit card scheme headquartered here in the Twin Cities. Olayemi Lateef Banjoko pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, but he is…
Former WellPoint employee pleads guilty to mail fraud, ID theft
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Angelique Mullings, also known as “Angelique Eubanks,” “Angelique Scott,” “Angelique Mullins,” “Angelique Sales” and “Angelique Salis,” 39, of West Haven, waived her right to indictment and pleaded guilty yesterday before United States District Judge Christopher F. Droney in Hartford to one count…