JetBlue Workers Accused Of Identity Theft

[iambrutus]

JetBlue

NEW YORK -- Four JetBlue workers have been arrested and charged with stealing passengers' credit cards and allegedly using them for gift cards, alcohol and shopping sprees at stores like Target and Bloomingdale's.

Investigators with the Port Authority Inspector General's office said the suspects carried out their scam over three years, often using credit cards and debit cards of passengers who accidentally left them on the counter as they rushed to make their flight. The ring also allegedly enlisted the help of a New York City Corrections officer.

Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said the JetBlue workers charged about $500 per store. Their stops included liquor stores, Victoria's Secret, H&M, Champs Sports, grocery stores and restaurants, the district attorney said

 

[Saw31]

 

[OCBucksFan]

Seems more like credit card fraud rather than identity theft... that term seems to be a new buzz word.

 

[LightningRod]

I will make a long story shorter. I was on the phone the last 3 hours resolving an identity theft con on me. Somebody living in Montebello, CA had my name, home address (I live outside of Washington, DC in MD), home phone [all fairly easy to obtain with no real effort], MD driver's license number [love to know how they got that. They were off one day on my birthdate. I have no idea if they have my SSN, but I just notified Equifax who inturn will notify the other 2 credit reporting agencies. I am going to the MD motor vehicle administration tomorrow to obtain a new driver's license number. It's a bitch when you are on this side of the fence and have no idea what is coming next. Here is how the scam went down. On 1/26/2007 these nice people use my driver's license with my name and address [this is why I believe (hope) that they do not have my SSN)to activate the LA area code cell phone number. No credit card info of mine was provided to Sprint PCS when the account was open, so I am not sure how the phone was activated without some sort of deposit. Later that day they changed the billing address to the Montebello, CA address [Sprint PCS fraud investigator would not give me the address -I promised I would behave - LOL] so I would never receive a bill or any notification of this transaction. Today I receive a notice from a collection agency that my cell phone service has been suspended pending payment of my bill. Sprint immediately took care of removing the charges and pulling the account back from collections. I would love to meet the nice people who pulled this shit.

Anybody have any experience with this?

 

[Deety]

My parent's credit union was hacked about 10 years ago. They received a call asking if they purchased $7,000 of stereo equipment in Japan on the same day they bought some small items in Virginia. The charge was removed and a new account was opened.

I received a letter from my credit card early this year that my information was among a batch that apparently disappeared, but they had "no reason to believe the information was not simply destroyed without the proper documentation." Didn't really make me feel better...

 

[methomps]

ucla gave some hackers my name, SSN, DOB, home address, and contact information. Or rather, they failed to notice that a hacker was running wild through a database with that information for over a year. As is ucla tradition, they claimed a moral victory in the fact that my DL# and CC info was not in that database.

 

[LightningRod]

A follow up and a warning to those of you who rent cars. Sprint PCS will not provide me with info about the person (people) involved in the ID theft, but I traced the event to Thrifty Car Rental at the Phoenix Airport. I rented a car at the airport on 1/5/07 and I had to provide my driver's license number on the rental agreement. Otherwise I have never before provided my license number to anybody since I moved to Maryland in 1998. The folks at Sprint actually have a Montebello, CA address where these birds presently reside, but I don't know how far Sprint is going to pursue the matter. In any event, consumer beware.

 

[Wells4Heisman]

Huh, My dad works for JetBlue, their a very respectful company and all of their employees are so nice. This is a shame.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

Man, that JetBlows...

 

[Zurp]

The guy in the next office from mine had the online banking stuff. I can't remember who his bank was. But he found out that someone in India, or somewhere, had bought stuff with his money. A couple of hours later, someone in Alaska bought stuff with his money. A couple of hours later, it was somewhere else. He found out about it a couple of days later, and he had to go to the bank to prove that he wasn't in those places that weekend. I thought that the fact that they were so far apart in such little time was pretty much proof. But he had to sit at the bank sorting it all out for half of the day. I guess he got all his money back, but he switched banks when it was all done.