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Online ID Thief Sentenced to Fourteen Years

Posted on Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 by

A man accused of running an online business that sold counterfeit credit cards embedded with account information was sentenced to fourteen years in prison. According to this article, federal agents “discovered machinery capable of making counterfeit credit cards and 21,000 stolen credit card numbers and other ancillary data stashed in his computers and email accounts.”

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Elaine Rigoli

Elaine Rigoli is a veteran business writer with years of experience managing content and community for various B2B and consumer websites. Elaine has written thousands of articles and has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal and eWeek, among other publications.

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