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2 arrested at Tex-Mex border in Target credit card fraud case
Account information stolen during the Target security breach is now being divided up and sold off regionally, a South Texas police chief said Monday, following the arrest of two Mexican citizens with 96 fraudulent credit cards. McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez said Mary Carmen Garcia, 27, and Daniel Guardiola Dominguez, 28, both of Monterrey, Mexico, used cards containing the account information of South Texas residents to buy tens of thousands of dollars' worth of merchandise at national retailers in the area. Rodriguez said he did not know whether they were the first arrests related to the Target breach. The Minneapolis-based company said last week that it has stopped more than a dozen operations that sought to scam breach victims by way of email, phone calls and text messages. McAllen police began working with the U.S. Secret Service after a number of area retailers were hit with fraudulent purchases on Jan. 12. The Secret Service confirmed that the fraudulent accounts traced back to the original Target data breach from late last year. Rodriguez also alluded to a link with Eastern Europe or Russia, but did not provide additional details. He said he expected Garcia and Guardiola to eventually face federal charges. Investigators believe the two were involved in both the acquisition of the fraudulent account data and the production of the cards, but only part of what must have been a much broader conspiracy. Garcia and Guardiola were both being held on state fraud charges. It was not immediately known whether they had retained lawyers. Posted by: Pappy 2014-01-21 |
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