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[privacy] California: Romania Link Seen in ID Theft Arrests
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:16:14 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The Sacramento Bee. [snip] A Sacramento man accused of running an Internet-based credit-card fraud ring with more than 1,000 victims has been linked with two kingpins of an international fraud operation based in Romania, Placer County sheriff's detectives said Monday. Tien Trong Nguyen, 29, who was arrested Friday, allegedly bought the victims' personal information from the unidentified Romanian scam artists and used the data to print phony credit and gift cards, detectives said. Nguyen then sold the cards to a local gang of thieves that ran up fraudulent purchases of at least $400,000 from local stores, mostly Wal-Marts, said Placer Detective Jim Hudson. [snip] More: http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/115531.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFFv7WVq1pz9mNUZTMRAiBdAJ41pDQoZcN2G/I/HcvScELfzcK2yACePZYN NRAX4l0rlP88tzqnERuX1Q0= =47Yf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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