Above picture found at the FBI website
"Between 2011 and 2014, four U.S. citizens who resided in San Diego—but carried out their crimes from across the Mexican border in Tijuana—hacked the computer servers of major U.S. mortgage brokers, stealing detailed loan application information from thousands of customers and then using the victims’ Social Security numbers, addresses, dates of birth, and driver’s license numbers to open unauthorized lines of credit and take over and drain victims’ retirement accounts.
“The damage crimes like these have on victims, the economy, and society in general are significant,” said Special Agent Chris Christopherson, who investigated the case from the FBI’s San Diego Division. “Individuals had their finances wrecked and their credit destroyed, through no fault of their own. For many of them,” he added, “the impacts are still being felt.”
- Where's the outrage for this kind of mass destruction.
Once Baden had access to victims’ information, he and his conspirators, Victor Fernandez, Jason Bailey, and Joel Nava, went to work. Fernandez—the group’s ringleader—identified multiple victims’ brokerage accounts and took control of them by calling the companies and providing the victims’ personal information to change passwords and contact information. Then it was simple for him and his conspirators to wire funds—sometimes up to $30,000 at a time—from the victims’ accounts to accounts they controlled.
In all, Christopherson estimated there were more than 25,000 victims, and although charging documents listed victim losses at approximately $2.5 million, “in reality the amount was much higher than that,” he said. “There was so much retail fraud over such a long period of time, it was impossible to calculate an accurate and provable loss amount.”All four subjects pleaded guilty to their roles in the fraud scheme. In 2015, Baden was sentenced federally to nine years in prison.
- Only 9 years in prison, pathetic. Should be life or execution!
~ Found at the FBI
