Cigdem Iltan reports: The owner of a southeast Edmonton travel agency has been charged with allegedly using stored credit card data to fraudulently take $50,000 from his customers. Gurmeet Singh Mankoo, Payless Travel’s owner, has been charged with a series of alleged frauds that took place at the business between late 2009 and early 2010….
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Tulsa woman pleads guilty in identity theft case
David Harper reports the follow-up to a case previously covered here last month: A Tulsa woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to participating in a conspiracy in which personal identifying information was taken from St. Francis Hospital’s computer system and used as part of a scheme involving fraudulent credit cards and stolen mail. Teresa R. Browning, 36,…
Ca: Shockingly easy to obtain confidential information
It seems you don’t need “friends in high places” to open doors for you in Saskatchewan. How about a humble data entry clerk? That’s apparently all it took for the Teamsters Union to obtain confidential personal information from the SGI [Saskatchewan Government Insurance] database which it then used to write to the home addresses of…
Wells Fargo reports two insider breaches in 6-month period
Although it seems to have flown under the mainstream media radar, Wells Fargo reported at least two breaches involving insider wrongdoing in a six-month period. On November 12, 2009, its subsidiary, Wells Fargo Advisors (WFA) advised the New York State Consumer Protection Board that when a stock broker for Wachovia Security left the firm in…
(follow-up) Gallatin Gateway woman gets nearly three years federal prison for fraud and identity theft
A Gallatin Gateway woman was sentenced in federal court Friday to 33 months in prison and three years probation after pleading guilty to credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft earlier this year. U.S. District Judge Donald Malloy also ordered Erin Lee Stewart, 50, to pay $7,185 in restitution to her victims. According to statements…
GA: Defendants Charged in Widespread Identity Theft Scheme
Opeoluwa Adigun a/k/a Mary Afolabi, age unknown, and Chukwuka Onyekaba a/k/a Gabriel Onyekaba, 32, both of Marietta, Georgia, have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of stealing the identities of more than 80 individuals in the Atlanta metropolitan area and opening credit card accounts, loans, and bank accounts in the names of…