[privacy] California: Romania Link Seen in ID Theft Arrests

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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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.

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More:
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/115531.html

- - ferg

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