Michelle Basch reports: Customers of Caffe Aficionado in Rosslyn are being told to check their credit card statements after the coffee shop was closed down and the owners were arrested and charged with credit card fraud. Adiam Berhane and Clark Donat, both 44 years old and from Arlington, were arrested Friday morning. They’re charged with…
Category: ID Theft
WI: Former Brookfield Sprint Employee Used Stolen Social Security Numbers to Set Up Accounts
CBS reports: A former employee at the Sprint Store in Brookfield, is charged with identity theft and stealing thousands of dollars’ worth of electronics. Theodore Harris worked at the Sprint Store, located at 6075 W Bluemound Rd in Brookfield. According to the criminal complaint, he used stolen social security numbers, birth dates and driver’s license numbers to…
NJ: Couple used IDs of prison inmates to file $317K in false insurance claims, authorities say
Toniann Antonelli reports: A Delaware couple has been indicted on charges that they used the names of prison inmates to fraudulently collect more than $317,000 in New Jersey unemployment and temporary disability benefits. Jose Crespo, 50, and his wife, Marilyn Crespo, 48, both of New Castle, Delaware, were indicted Wednesday on second degree charges of…
Vendor’s employee stole W-4 forms for SIRF scheme
A case involving identity theft reported by the USAO for the Middle District of Alabama this week: A Phenix City, Alabama man was sentenced to 24 months in prison today for his role in a stolen identity refund fraud (SIRF) scheme. According to documents filed with the court, Kenneth Fearson, 31, worked at a warehouse that…
Iranian Citizen Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Identity Theft and Access Device Fraud
Gulfport, Miss –Milad Kalantari, 31, an Iranian citizen, pleaded guilty on October 6, 2016 before U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to conspiracy to commit identity theft and access device fraud, as well as substantive access device fraud, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis of the Southern District of…
University of Central Florida police trace credit card fraud to restaurant malware
Gabrielle Russon reports: UCF police have determined that a vendor whose restaurants had malware on its computers is the potential root of the spike in campus credit card fraud cases last month. The issue was found with AD Food Services, which operates Asian Chao, Huey Magoo’s and the Corner Café in the Student Union, the…