美破获信用卡诈骗案 涉案金额超2亿美元

Beauty unearthed credit card fraud involving a value of over 200 million dollars

According to the USA today newspaper 6 days to report, the United States successfully solving one international credit card fraud, and suspect faked more than 7000 false identity, apply for tens of thousands of credit card. They buy luxury car, gold and high-end products, millions of dollars money transfer to overseas, the total amount involved more than 200 million dollars. Reports say, this is the United States the unearthed the scale of the credit card fraud.

The USA today newspaper said the suspect, a site covers the United States and a state and other eight countries. American prosecutors disclosure, already in and suspect launch criminal proceedings. The gang members organized a huge crime network, will not rule out future there will be more people prosecuted. It is reported, this crime gang since 2003 the use of false identification, create credit information. Some of the identity is a complete fiction, and some use the same name with the social insurance number. They use false water and electricity bills and tax return to apply for a credit card. At first, the suspect will be for small transactions, and pay on time, and then submit forged documents induces the credit card company for them to improve their credit, then make a big deal with credit card, and since then no longer reimbursement. By the end of 2012, the gang members were forged more than 7000 a false identity, and to obtain more than 25000 credit CARDS. They will be millions of dollars money transfer to Pakistan, India, the united Arab emirates, Canada, China and Japan.

On Tuesday, at least 13 crime gang members be catch. New Jersey district attorney Paul fee Sherman said: "this scam in every detail, including false name, id card, documents, credit records, etc., we have in other cases met, but will all details mix into such a good degree, spend so much manpower, time and money to implement fraud, this may be the first time." He revealed that the United States postal service, secret service, the federal bureau of investigation and federal agencies in the early eighteen months ago has started investigating the case. At present, the fraud gang common cause $200 million in damage, but the digital future may continue to grow. The fbi agent James Simpson said: "in view of the large, economic loss is still in the statistics of the number may be a significant growth." Bank fraud charges can be sentenced to up to 30 years in jail and impose a fine of $1 million.

Prosecutors said, some of the gang members also established in 80 the company, but the company did not carry out any legal business, completely is used to receive a credit card and provide false credit report, in order to improve the gang members credit rating. The fraud gang may will give a lot of consumer impact. The United States dart strategy, senior analyst al pasco said, credit card issuers may to raise interest rates and the rate of loss way passed on to the consumer. Those who had been the fraud gang use name consumers will also be affected. Pasco said: "financial institutions will leave no stone unturned to find the credit card bill responsibility person. You have to deal with some of the things you don't know anything about this fight, they just wanted to take advantage of your part information."

Credit the website said: "they use different people's identity information splicing into a virtual identity." The gang members to use existing social insurance number, and put them with different identity of the person's name together. This suggests that, social insurance number the authentication system existence of loopholes.