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Sophisticated Minnesota fraud ring has global tentacles
StarTribune.com ^
| 3/8/10
| Dan Browning
Posted on 03/08/2010 8:14:50 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
A joint state and federal task force has been quietly targeting what investigators say is a sophisticated organized crime ring in the Twin Cities with about 200 members who have allegedly stolen identities, taken over bank and credit card accounts, distributed counterfeit checks and currency and defrauded businesses and banks nationwide.
The ring recruits members on social networking sites like Facebook, buys stolen information from employees of check-cashing services and Internet data brokers, and has even sent trusted ring members to college and business schools to qualify them for jobs in financial institutions or other targeted businesses, investigators say.
"This looks like it could be one of the biggest cases of its type in the country," said Patrick Henry, commander of the Minnesota Financial Crimes Task Force. "Most of my task force is involved in this investigation."
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: fraud; nigeria; nigerians
Check your bank statements, FRiends.....
To: stephenjohnbanker; wafflehouse; Leisler; PAR35; TigerLikesRooster; AndyJackson; Thane_Banquo; ...
*Ping!*
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posted on
03/08/2010 8:17:52 PM PST
by
rabscuttle385
(Live Free or Die)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
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posted on
03/08/2010 8:22:21 PM PST
by
Frantzie
(TV - sending Americans towards Islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)
To: Frantzie
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posted on
03/08/2010 8:26:12 PM PST
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Armed And Cantankerous.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
How many of you saw the word ‘testicles’ in the headline? Admit it.
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
I resent that remark. I’m from the Nigerian Anti-Defamation League...and boy, oh boy, do I have my work cut out for me!
To: James C. Bennett
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posted on
03/08/2010 8:33:55 PM PST
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Minnesota fraud...? You must be talking about Al Franken....
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posted on
03/08/2010 8:37:34 PM PST
by
freebilly
(No wonder the left has a boner for Obama. There's CIALIS in soCIALISt....)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Same third world. Lovely.
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posted on
03/08/2010 8:38:04 PM PST
by
Frantzie
(TV - sending Americans towards Islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)
To: Tainan
I saw Taliban when I glimpsed at you handle...
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posted on
03/08/2010 8:56:53 PM PST
by
tubebender
(Tagline... I don't need no stinkin Tagline)
To: tubebender
...no...its Thailand!
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posted on
03/08/2010 9:05:57 PM PST
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus)
To: Tainan
Forgive me, I had my glasses on...
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posted on
03/08/2010 9:11:56 PM PST
by
tubebender
(Tagline... I don't need no stinkin Tagline)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Well it’s not quiet any more.
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posted on
03/08/2010 9:25:11 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
I hear they also elect unfunny comedians to the US Senate!
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posted on
03/08/2010 9:55:18 PM PST
by
April Lexington
(Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
To: James C. Bennett
I’m glad I’m not the only one.
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posted on
03/09/2010 4:15:09 AM PST
by
rdl6989
(January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
To: rabscuttle385
New Nigerian scam. Anything to avoid work ;-)
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posted on
03/09/2010 5:22:10 AM PST
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Support our troops, and vote out the RINOS)
To: stephenjohnbanker
They were just doing the work Americans won’t do! /sarc
To: rabscuttle385
Impoverished people of Lagos, Somalia, and Mexico have no scruples. They come here and all they see is an all-you-can-steal banquet.
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posted on
03/09/2010 5:38:00 AM PST
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Support our troops, and vote out the RINOS)
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