Sunday, October 31, 2010

A Celebrity's Brother was Busted For carding 8k at the Hermes Store in NYC FACES 15YRS IN PRISON

THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD INVEST IN GOOD PLASTICS AND NOT CARD IN NYC ITS THE WOSTE PLACE COMEON PEOPLE AND IF CARDING IN NYC KEEP IT LIGHT THEY ARE WATCHING

A Manhattan grand jury indicted rapper Foxy Brown's big brother Gavin this morning in a credit card scheme cops say swiped $8,000 from the Hermes store on Madison Ave. He faces up to 15 years prison after getting busted last week on charges he tried to use an obviously bogus MasterCard to buy birthday party duds from the fancy French boutique.

Gavin's three co-defendants are also charged with trying to pay the same tab with more bad plastic, all under the watchful eyes of an undercover street crime unit cop who was doing surveillance in the store at the time. The quartet allegedly led cops on a 90-mile-an-hour chase before finally pulling over.

In learning of his indictment today, Marchand stood before the same judge, Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson, who handled his sister's 2007 assault case, for slugging a pair of Chelsea nail salon workers in an an argument over the pedicure bill. "The same judge? I can't believe it!" Marchand said, leaving court, when told of the coincidence. The judge ordered him to return to court Sept. 16 to be arraigned on the indictment.

Detroit twins, accused ring-leaders in credit card fraud uncovered in Saginaw

The pair were charged with racketeering, bank fraud, fraud by wire and removal of property to prevent seizure, court records show.

Sentencing dates are pending.

U.S. Secret Service agents in Saginaw began investigating the Hunters after Saginaw County sheriff’s deputies arrested three people Dec. 11, 2008, at Meijer in Kochville Township, court records show.

The trio — Maurice E. Watkins, Derrick J. Moore and Ashley R. Allen — used 14 counterfeit Visa gift cards to purchase items such as a 42-inch LCD television worth $1,356 and $900 worth of Meijer gift cards, records show.

Evidence suggests the cards also were used at Meijer stores in Flint and Walmart stores in Ypsilanti.

The counterfeit cards were encoded with bona fide Chase Visa card numbers, authorities have said.

Secret Service agents traced the cards back to the Hunters and another Detroit-area resident, Brian D. Coleman.

Investigators said one of the Hunter brothers wore a small box on a chain around his neck. Agents said they believed the box was a skimmer, a device used to collect credit card information and encode it onto the magnetic strips of other credit or gift cards.

Dionte Hunter, at the time of his arrest, was on probation for possessing fraudulent financial transaction devices. He was arrested in December 2006 when he tried to buy $2,000 worth of merchandise from a Roseville Toys R Us.

An observant cashier thwarted the sale when she noticed the last four digits on the card didn’t match the numbers on the receipt.

U.S. District Judge Thomas L. Ludington in December ordered Watkins to serve 40 months in prison and pay nearly $587,000 restitution

Watkins, Moore, Allen and Coleman pleaded to conspiracy to commit access fraud, records indicate.

Ludington ordered Moore to serve 12 months, Allen to serve 13 months and Coleman to serve 35 months and assist Watkins in paying the restitution.

Underground credit card clearing house hacked

An underground credit card clearing house has itself been hacked, an investigation by Trend Micro has confirmed.

The operation - a holding firm for anonymous payment service Fethard - processes credit card payments for a rogue's gallery of fake anti-virus (scareware) suppliers, spam-promoted unlicensed pharmaceutical and extreme pornography sites.

Hackers claimed to have breached a server behind its website on 23 July, publishing information online including employee emails and recorded phone calls, one discussing techniques to defraud credit card firms. The perpetrators of the hack and their motive remain unidentified, but it is potentially an assault from cybercrime rivals.

Trend said the information on the unnamed credit card processor, registered in the Netherlands but actually run from Russia and Latvia, checks out. The firm has legitimate customers in Russia as well as rather more unscrupulous clients, reportedly taken on to keep the business afloat after it became the victim of cybercrime itself a few years ago.

"In 2007, a large sum of money was stolen from Fethard’s funds. This has undoubtedly created problems for Fethard and has possibly pulled the mother company deeper into the cybercrime business," Trend Micro researcher Feike Hacquebord explains.

"This hacking incident would probably make a lot of cybercriminals nervous. Unfortunately, the incident also puts the personal data of legitimate customers and of many ordinary Russians at risk."