Prosecutors call it the biggest identity theft bust in US history. On Friday, 111 bank tellers, retail workers, waiters and alleged criminals were charged with running a credit-card-stealing organization that stole more than US$13 million in less than a year-and-a-half.
This is by far the largest — and certainly among the most sophisticated — identity theft/credit card fraud cases that law enforcement has come across,
the Queens County District Attorney’s office said in a statement announcing the arrests.
The credit card numbers came from far and wide: from skimming operations in the US, where restaurant employees or retail cashiers were paid to steal credit card data from customers; from carder forums on the Internet; and also from shady overseas suppliers in countries such as Russia, China and Libya — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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