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FLORIDA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"ColumbiaA West Palm Beach, Florida, resident plead guilty Wednesday to multiple criminal charges in connection with a sophisticated global cell phone fraud scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n

The scam involved compromising cellphone customers\u2019 accounts and \u201ccloning\u201d their phones to make fraudulent international calls, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jose Santana, aka Octavio Perez<\/strong>, 53, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, access device fraud, the use, production or possession of modified telecommunications instruments and the use or possession of hardware or software configured to obtain telecommunications services; one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0U.S. District Judge Daniel T.K. Hurley of Florida scheduled sentencing for a later date.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the plea agreement, Santana and his co-conspirators were involved in scam to steal access to and fraudulently open new cellphone accounts using the personal information of individuals around the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n

Santana admitted that his role in the scheme included operating a \u201ccall site\u201d from his residence in West Palm Beach using the alias Octavio Perez, according to officials.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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According to the plea agreement, Santana\u2019s co-conspirators would then transmit thousands of international calls over the internet to Santana\u2019s residence, where he would route them through the re-programmed cellphones to Cuba, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic and other countries with high calling rates.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

The calls were billed to the customers\u2019 compromised accounts, he admitted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, Santana admitted that from December 2010 through October 2011, co-conspirators sent him more than 1,000 emails containing telecommunications identifying numbers associated with cellphone account holders around the United States.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

According to the plea agreement, Santana was personally responsible for than $150,000 in loss resulting from the scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n

Santana is the second defendant to plead guilty in the case.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

On Aug. 29, 2016, Edwin Fana<\/strong> plead guilty to similar charges in this matter, and is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 22, 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

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*The FBI investigated the case, dubbed Operation Toll Free, which is part of the bureau\u2019s ongoing effort to combat large-scale telecommunications fraud.\u00a0 Senior Counsel Matthew A. Lamberti of the Criminal Division\u2019s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jared M. Strauss of the Southern District of Florida are prosecuting the case.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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