Four Chinese citizens have been seated by the identity theft scheme aimed at defrauding retailers of more than $ 1.2 million.
The scheme included the theft of personal information from hundreds of Americans, which was then used to forge driver’s licenses and other IDs to create credit accounts in a series of national retailers, reported a press release from immigration and the application of customs.
Retaids attacked for fraud included Uult Beauty, Sephora, Nordstrom, Macy’s, Kohl’s, Williams-Sonoma, Dillard’s and Saks Fifth Avenue.
The convicted include Kar Kee “Steven” Cheung, 36, Qian Guo, 37, Chongming “Ming” Wang, 28, and Jiaozhu “Yanny” Yan Yan, 30. They were convicted of charges that include fraud with credit cards, false manufacturing identification, fraud, fraud of devices and other crimes and were sent from 42 months, and 12 months in prison.
Two other suspects were also condemned in the scheme. Sizhen “Rachel” Liu, 35, had been previously sentenced to 50 months in a federal prison for similar fraud charges and Hyun Woo “Scott” Jung, 30, will be sentenced on May 5.
In a similar case, a Donghui Liao Chinese, 32, was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for possession of thousands of unauthorized access devices (gift cards), in a scheme in Florida meant Cust Cardy’s.
“Gift card scams endanger retailers, consumers and public security in general,” said the special agent of National Security Research Orlando David Pezutti in a press release. “HSI is activey collaboating with law enforcement at all less less Or Dollars, or Dollars, or Dollars, or Dollars, or Dollars, or Dollars, or Dollars, of Dollars Craftsecations, or artisanal dollars, or dollars.
The US secret service also recently announced a national investigation into a high -tech perpetrated scheme called “jackpting” where hundreds of Tousands of ATMs are stolen.
The Secret Service describes “Jackotting” as criminals who manipulate ATMs to spit effective through “malicious software and/or computer hardware.” Without control, machines can potentially drain with a loss by a total of thousands.
“The machine will simply be dispensed until it is drained. It could be 97 dispensations, it could be 70,” said Laura Ward, Risk Director of FirstMark Credit Union, to KSAT.
“These days we see all the children of crimes, but this is a particularly different child,” Ward added. We call it an attack because it is an attack. “
Federal and local researchers have also prosecuted several groups of migrants involved in organized robbery rings, many aimed at professional athletes.
In one case, a group of Chilean citizens was accused in relation to billionaire robberies of professional athletes houses, including Joe Burrow, Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce.
In another case, the police in Denver said that a “South American robbery gang” was involved in a $ 12 million jewelry robbery.
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