Phishing Ringleader Receives 12-Year Sentence, 38,000 Victims Rejoice
Thirty-four-year-old Nguyen Tien Truong is to find out the hard way that you shouldn 't do the crime if you \ can' t do the time. U.S. District Judge Morrison England, Jr. ruled that Nguyen guilty in fact scamming more than 38,000 victims who are imitators of the design was banking sites trick users into entering their personal data, and ordered him to serve 12 years in prison .
After DigitalTrends Nguyen worked with Romanian fraudsters in a concerted effort to route victims of fraudulent websites via e-mail phishing. He sold the stolen data to Ryan Price and Stefani Ruland, two men who used the information to open credit lines with GE Capital kiosks at Walmart in Northern California. Lines of credit typically ranged from $ 1,000 to $ 2,000 per person. Overall, the crooks about $ 200,000 in illegally obtained items from Walmart.
When the police Nguyen was arrested in 2007, they found a number of incriminating evidence, including web templates to counterfeit versions of banking sites, banks and credit card numbers 38,500 victims, to build fraudulent credit cards, and a fake driver 's license, DigitalTrends says. Nguyen was also allegedly in possession of a Remington 870 Express Magnum shotgun and ammunition in the vicinity, the order from an earlier conviction on three crimes of which violated a written fraudulent checks on hand.
Nguyen 's lawyer unsuccessfully tried his client \ fault' s behavior on his methamphetamine addiction for which he no longer suffers alleged. He was due to conspiracy, aggravated identity theft, possession of a firearm and access device fraud accused.
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