Florida Man Sentenced for Cellphone Fraud Scheme
A Miami Gardens, Florida, man was sentenced to 48 months in prison for perpetrating what DOJ said was a “sophisticated global cell phone fraud scheme that involved compromising cellphone customers’ accounts and ‘cloning’ their phones to make fraudulent international calls.”…
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Edwin Fana, 37, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Daniel Hurley of the Southern District of Florida, said a Friday DOJ news release. According to the plea agreement, “Fana and his co-conspirators participated in a scheme to steal access to and fraudulently open new cellphone accounts using the personal information of individuals around the United States,” DOJ said. “Fana admitted that the conspirators then trafficked in the cellphone customers’ telecommunication identifying information, using that data as well as other software and hardware to reprogram cellphones that they controlled to transmit thousands of international calls to Cuba, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic and other countries with high calling rates.”