Liz Welter reports: Officials are alerting residents that debit/credit cards used at two central Wisconsin fabric stores during late August and early September might have been compromised. During the weekend, numerous complaints came into law enforcement agencies in Wood and Portage counties reporting fraudulent activity on debit cards that appear to be automated teller machine…
Category: Skimmers
Losses from EFTPOS frauds at Perth shops hit $450,000
McDonald’s Australia is alerting customers to a huge skimming operation in Perth. As of yesterday, they had reported that about 2500 accounts had been compromised to the tune of $450,000 but today they say that they cannot guarantee that more West Australians will not be fleeced in the fraud scam. While police have so far…
3 accused of stealing diners’ credit card IDs
Robert Moran reports: Three Philadelphia men were indicted yesterday on charges of illegally using the credit and debit cards of customers of two city restaurants by recruiting servers and other workers to steal their account information and then using it to create false – but functioning – cards. According to the federal grand jury indictment,…
Armenian sentenced to time served in card skimming operation
The Associated Press reports that an Armenian, Artur Grigoryan, was sentenced to time served for his part in a card skimming operation that victimized customers of Rite Aid stores in Pennsylvania and Delaware. Grigoryan had already served two years and is expected to be deported to Armenia. His co-conspirator, Artur Harutyunyan, is set to be…
Follow-up: Final Member of DC-Area Restaurant Card-Skimming Ring Sentenced
A Maryland man who was the third leader of a card-skimming ring victimizing Washington, D.C.-area restaurants was sentenced in federal court last week to 81 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release. Erick V. Burton, age 38, of District Heights, Md., was also ordered to pay $814,673.20 in restitution, as were his…
International ID theft scheme defendant sentenced to 13 1/2 years
Koleowo Adeyemi Adesoye, 28, of Houston, was sentenced to 13 ½ years in federal prison without parole for his involvement in planning and executing an international identity theft scheme causing $2 million in losses to financial institutions, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. United States District Judge Ewing Werlein Jr. handed down the prison…