ID Theft Service Customer Gets 27 Months

  • 1 October 2014
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A Florida man was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for trying to purchase Social Security numbers and other data from an identity theft service that pulled consumer records from a subsidiary of credit bureau Experian.
http://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/superget1-285x217.pngNgo’s ID theft service superget.info
Derric Theoc, 36, pleaded guilty to attempting to purchase Social Security and bank account records on more than 100 Americans with the intent to open credit card accounts and file fraudulent tax returns in the victims’ names. According to prosecutors, Theoc had purchased numerous records from Superget.info, a now-defunct online identity theft servicethat was run by Vietnamese individual named Hieu Minh Ngo.
Ngo was arrested in 2012 by U.S. Secret Service agents, after he was lured to Guam by an undercover investigator who’d proposed a business deal to expand Ngo’s personal consumer data stores. As part of a guilty plea, Ngo later admitted that he’d obtained personal information on consumers from a variety of data broker companies by posing as a private investigator based in the United States.
Among the biggest brokers that Ngo bought from was Court Ventures, a company that was acquired in March 2012 by Experian — one of the three major credit bureaus. Court records show that for almost ten months after Experian completed that acquisition, Ngo continued siphoning consumer data and paying for the information via cash wire transfers from a bank in Singapore.
After Ngo’s arrest, Secret Service investigators in early 2013 quietly assumed control over his identity theft service in the hopes of identifying and arresting at least some of his more than 1,000 paying customers.
 
 
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Another one bites the dust.
 
19th March 2015
 
Lance Ealy, an Ohio man who fled home confinement last year just prior to his conviction on charges of filing phony tax refund requests on more than 150 Americans, was apprehended in a pre-dawn raid by federal marshals in Atlanta on Wednesday.
 
 
http://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ealydope-285x378.jpgLance Ealy, in self-portrait he uploaded to twitter before absconding.
 
Ealy, 28, of Dayton, Ohio, was the subject of no fewer than three previous posts on this blog. Ealy reached out to me in February 2014, after being arrested by the U.S. Secret Service for using his email account to purchase Social Security numbers and other personal information from an online identity theft service run by guy named Hieu Minh Ngo.
 
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Tax fraud fugitive nabbed after posting selfies

Alleged ID thief slips ankle bracelet but can't escape social media monitors

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By: 20 Mar 2015 at 08:34, Darren Pauli
 
A US man charged with tax fraud and identity theft has been arrested after fleeing authorities and allegedly posting bragging selfies on Twitter.
Lance Ealy, 28, of Ohio was arrested in a raid Wednesday in Atlanta by federal authorities after he skipped trial on charges he purchased stolen Social Security numbers and personal information from a Vietnamese fraud site, then used them to file bogus tax returns.
 Ealy removed an ankle bracelet monitor during his trial and went on the run, submitting legal documents to the court requesting a retrial and allegedly posting selfies on his Twitter account.
An image posted by security reporter Brian Krebs matches those and videos posted to a still active Twitter account.
Ealy was indicted in the US on 46 counts of fraud including buying and selling stolen identities and filing false income tax returns.
 
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