5 Members of US Army National Guard Arrested for Alleged Bitcoin Scam
A group of US Army National Guard members have been arrested and charged with a scheme to use bitcoin to purchase stolen credit card numbers in order to make fraudulent purchases from a number of military bases. The Justice Department has said that three guardsmen – Derrick Shelton, James Stewart and Quentin Stewart – were arrested last week after being indicted earlier this month. The men were accused of using bitcoin to buy stolen credit and debit card numbers online and then use magnetic strip re-encoding tools and software to apply those stolen numbers to actual cards in their....
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Five members of the US Army National Guard have been arrested. All of the suspects are involved in an illegal scheme involving stolen credit cards bought with Bitcoin. The news broke on May 23, 2016 when a message appeared on the US Department of Justice website regarding the incident. The official source mentions how four US Army National Guardsmen have....
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