Man charged in connection with alleged Waltham credit card fraud
http://waltham.wickedlocal.com/article/20141204/NEWS/141208245
From the article:
A Haverhill man was arraigned Thursday on more than 100 counts of prescription and credit card fraud and identity theft, which include charges in a Waltham case, according to the Attorney General’s Office.
Leo was indicted by an Essex County Grand Jury on Nov. 3.
He is charged with 16 counts of identity fraud, 54 counts of uttering a false prescription, two counts of attempting to utter a false prescription, three counts of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance (Class E), three counts of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance (Class B), 18 counts of conspiracy to commit identify fraud, three counts of credit card fraud, attempting to commit credit card fraud, larceny over $250, two counts of larceny under $250 and possession of an instrument to reproduce a credit card.
I have stated time and again.. that ID theft/fraud is more rampant than anyone – especially law enforcement – wants to admit.. So now can you add “using a credit card” and not having insurance as a RED FLAG..? This fellow got by with diverting drugs for THREE YEARS.. How many of these forged Rxs would have been filled if the Pharmacy could access the state’s driver’s license database to verify the driver’s license presented against what was issued by the state… I suspect that it would be a lot shorter than THREE YEARS !
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Google fake drivers licenses and you get all kinds of sites, whether you get a good product, I wouldnt know, but it seems they are out there. I can see verifying against the DMV database if the DMV went back to issuing the secured licenses they piloted back in 07 but only if it was across the whole US which would help. I don’t know if an out of state license is real or fake. I have one of these. It was a pain to get at first, all the documents they wanted. I remember the huge uproar was people who claimed they couldn’t get their ‘original’ copies of their birth certificates.Every state has different requirements but all requests go thru one central online site…and I can hear it now, louder than the complaints about the ‘discriminatory voter ID laws’ which essentially requires the same thing…a legit government issued ID…ie Drivers license
http://www.govtech.com/security/Indiana-Launches-More-Secure-Drivers-License.html?topic=117673