A fraudster was sentenced to over 17 years in prison for devising a scam where he registered fake debt collection companies to gain access to consumer PII which he then used to open almost 600 fraudulent credit card accounts. Read More
Father-Son Fraud Team Had Multitude of Scams
Vladimir Zdorovenin was recently extradited to the United States on multiple charges after spreading malware and perpetrating various scams with a co-conspirator, his son, who is still at large. Read More
Woman Steals Nearly $1M Repeating Rudimentary Fraud for 7 Years
A woman working for the New York State Housing Trust Fund stole $944,000 from 2004 to 2011 by altering money orders written to her employer and depositing them in her own bank accounts. Read More
Zappos Suffers Data Breach, Now Faces Class Action Suit
Zappos, the large online shoe retailer owned by Amazon, announced a data breach on January 15th compromising 24 million consumer records. Not many days later a civil negligence suit was filed against Zappos and parent company Amazon while lawyers seek to make it a class action law suit on behalf of all the data breach
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Japanese Fraud Ring Members Arrested for Malware Scam
Six members of a Japanese fraud ring were arrested by police after distributing malware that rendered a victim’s computer unusable until payment was received. This type of malware, similar to scareware, has been referred to as ransomware and one-clickware. Read More
Expect Fraud Rings to Focus More on Skimming This Year
According to some security experts fraud resulting from card skimming will further increase in 2012 as fraud rings continue to exploit the magnetic-stripe. Read More
50 Arrested in Identity Fraud Ring
An investigation by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has led to the arrest of fifty individuals for their involvement in a massive identity theft ring that sold hundreds of U.S. identities on the black market. Read More
17 Year Old Skimmed Cards Working Drive-Thru
A 17 year old recently plead guilty to two juvenile counts of forgery and identity theft after making at least $13,000 in fraudulent purchases using card numbers he skimmed while working the drive-thru window at McDonald’s. Read More
Identity Fraud Ring Hijacked Consumer Retail Credit Accounts
An investigation by the New York Attorney General led to the arrest of seven in an identity fraud scheme where the fraudsters impersonated consumers at retail stores in attempts to take over their store credit card accounts, the fraudsters have been accused of operating this scam since at least 2008. Read More
Couple Continued Mail Theft and Fraud for Over 10 Years
A man and woman have been charged with multiple counts of burglary, manufacturing and selling government IDs, and forgery for a scam they’ve been operating since at least 2008, but the two were also convicted of similar crimes back in 1999. Read More
