MIAMI – Another identity thief was sentenced to prison for stealing person account and identification information from AT&T customers, officials announced last week.
U.S. District Judge Marcia G. Cooke sentenced Jacqueline Nicole Lee Warrick, 26, of Miami, to 30 months in prison. Warrick is one of several defendants who have plead guilty for their roles in an ID theft ring that victimized AT&T customers.
Warrick pled guilty to one count of using an authorized access device and one count of aggravated identity theft.
According to court documents, defendant Chouman Emily Syrilien was employed by Interactive Response Technologies, Inc. or IRT located in Margate.
IRT provides staffing for call centers to handle direct sales and customer inquiries for AT&T.
Syrilien unlawfully provided a co-conspirator with the personal identifying information from multiple AT&T customer files.
Defendant Arrington Basil Segu also unlawfully provided personal identifying information of many people to the co-conspirator.
Carlos Antonio Alexander, Tracey Delva, Shantegra La’Shae Godfrey, Monique Smith, and Warrick were added as “authorized users” on victims’ credit or debit card accounts or bank accounts to access the accounts of persons whose personal identifying information had been stolen.
Once a co-conspirator’s name was added as an “authorized user,” the bank or credit card company or both were directed to mail additional debit or credit cards bearing the names of these newly added “authorized users” to their addresses or addresses under their control, all without the true account holder’s knowledge or consent, officials said.
The defendants used these credit and debit cards to make purchases or obtain money.
Delva and Warrick both utilized fraudulently obtained debit and credit cards that bore their names as additional “authorized users” on victims’ accounts to make both retail purchases as well as cash advances in excess of $28,000.
Alexander, Smith and Godfrey made retail purchases as well as cash advances in excess of $24,000, $12,000 and $8,200, respectively.
Angel Arcos, 23, allowed his personal information to be used to open a bank account to further the fraudulent activity.
From September 16 to 18, 2013, five withdrawals totaling $13,000 were made from the fraudulent account and deposited into Arcos’ checking account.
The following defendants have plead guilty:
- On July 30, Delva, 27, of Deerfield Beach, pled guilty to one count of access device fraud, and one count of aggravated identity. Sentencing for Delva is scheduled for October 29, 2014.
- On August 6,, Syrilien, 25, of Lauderdale Lakes, was sentenced to 34 months in prison. Syrilien pled guilty to one count of possession of 15 or more unauthorized access devices and one count of aggravated identity theft.
- On October 1, Alexander, 24, of Orlando, was sentenced to 16 months in prison. Alexander pled guilty to one count of using an authorized access device and one count of aggravated identity theft.
- On September 3, Arcos, 23, of Pompano Beach, was sentenced to time served. Arcos was subject to 180 days of home detention with electronic monitoring. Arcos pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
- On September 3, Smith, 31, of Pompano Beach, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.
- Also on Sept. 3, Segu, 28, of Miami pled guilty to one count of access device fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. Sentencing for Smith and Segu is scheduled for November 19.
- On September 22, 2014, Godfrey, 23, of Deerfield Beach, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Sentencing is scheduled for December 3.