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California: Romania Link Seen in ID Theft Arrests

Art Campos writes in The Sacramento Bee:

A Sacramento man accused of running an Internet-based credit-card fraud ring with more than 1,000 victims has been linked with two kingpins of an international fraud operation based in Romania, Placer County sheriff's detectives said Monday.

Tien Trong Nguyen, 29, who was arrested Friday, allegedly bought the victims' personal information from the unidentified Romanian scam artists and used the data to print phony credit and gift cards, detectives said.

Nguyen then sold the cards to a local gang of thieves that ran up fraudulent purchases of at least $400,000 from local stores, mostly Wal-Marts, said Placer Detective Jim Hudson.

posted by Fergie @ 1/30/2007 01:13:00 PM