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  • Members of credit-card, ID theft ring sentenced to prison.

    Posted on December 17th, 2012 admin No comments

    Two members of a local crime ring that spent more than $1 million with thousands of credit-card numbers that hackers stole from a California hotel have been sentenced to federal prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Friday.

    Troy Henry, 37, of Orlando was sentenced to 13.5 years in prison; and Randall Rodgers, 32, of California was sentenced to 10 years.

    Since August 2011, 12 other people have been sentenced to prison by a federal judge in Orlando for their roles in the credit-card fraud and identity theft scheme.

    So far, the prison sentences handed down to the co-conspirators has ranged from two years to 13.5 years.

    Secret Service agents in Orlando began investigating the ring in 2010 when they were notified by a San Diego agent, who traced fraud in Central Florida to a hacked computer at a California hotel.

    Investigators said someone hacked the computer servers for the Se San Diego Hotel, and stored customers’ credit card data.

    Agents tracked fraudulent activity related to the cards and found a “substantial” amount of spending at Target stores in Central Florida, court records said.

    Prosecutors said the Central Florida ring and Rodgers bought stolen credit card information over the Internet from someone based in Azerbaijan.

    Once the crime ring had the stolen credit card numbers, they used encoding machines and computer software to re-encode gift cards at retail stores to buy merchandise.

    Prosecutors said Henry and Rodgers were leaders in the group.

    Their co-conspirators had specific roles in the operation, prosecutors said.

    Crime ring member Nancy Major used the fake credit cards to buy merchandise at retail stores in Central Florida. She was sentenced previously to five years in prison.

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