“Operation Swipe” Indicts 111 in Largest ID Theft Operation in History
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New York police have arrested 85 people of 111 that have been indicted in what’s being dubbed “Operation Swipe,” the nation’s largest ID theft ring which totaled $13 million in stolen goods over a two-year period.
Police say credit card information was stolen via “skimmers,” people hired at businesses who took the information and created blank credit cards through suppliers in China, Russian, Libya and Lebanon. The cards were then used to purchase electronic goods, the majority of which were Apple products, which are easily re-sold overseas.
The schemes and the imagination of these thieves is mind-boggling, said police commissioner Raymond Kelly at a news conference about the operation.
From the 85 already in custody, police seized $650,000 in cash, guns and computer components. The operation was centered in Queens, NY, with detectives having to translate communications in various languages including Russian, Farsi and Arabic.
If you have any information on the case, please contact New York Police Department or 1-800-577-TIPS.
Source Los Angeles Times
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