Three indicted in Knoxville in Credit Card Scam

WATE ^ | 06/02/2011 | AP

[TennesseeGirl]

KNOXVILLE (AP) - A University of Georgia graduate assistant and a Baton Rouge, La., waitress have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Knoxville in a scam to steal debit and credit card information from restaurant customers.

Waitress Shena Everett was in court Wednesday in Knoxville on a charge of conspiracy to commit access device fraud.

[TennesseeGirl]

Just what we need. Smarter criminals. Educate someone with larceny in his heart, and you get a smarter criminal.

This has larger ramifications than just a scam in a moderate-sized city or buying "stuff". Obama's campaigns had a LARGE number of donations made by prepaid debit cards. The possibilities of having a device to steal credit card and debit card numbers and re-emboss new numbers on authentic cards (see No. 5) are endless. Copy of the actual indictment: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/97273-060111indictment.html

[AppyPappy]

Whether he is smart depends on his choice of major and whether he is enrolled on his own merits.

[RobRoy]

I went from all cash to all credit when I got my airline mileage credit card a few years ago. Just last month we went back to all cash, except for stuff like rental cars. We have already seen a serious impact to our spending - in the good way. :)

[TennesseeGirl]

Lol, true. There's smart...then there's booksmart. This from a different source: "Carlton A. Lewis was hardly the usual suspect: the son of a professor at a prestigious women's college and himself an honors student and aspiring doctoral candidate at the University of Georgia."

Also, "Lewis, a 25-year-old doctoral candidate at the University of Georgia, was pulled over in Knoxville on March 26 for driving under the influence and a search of his vehicle found 39 fake credit and debit cards bearing the name Ellington Anderson. They also found a device used to steal credit card information, and a re-coding device used to emboss stolen account numbers onto pre-paid money cards. They also found a fake Texas driver's license bearing Lewis' picture and the name Ellington Anderson."

[La Lydia]

"According to records made public so far, Lewis is the son of Trinidad natives. He has dual citizenship in both the U.S. and Canada. His mother is a professor at Spelman College in Georgia, a prestigious women's college in existence for more than a century."

More benefits of our generous, welcoming spirit and our colorful diverse multicultural society.

[TennesseeGirl]

His major? Industrial/Organizational Psychology.

[AppyPappy]

Some of the dumbest people I ever knew were trying to get a PhD. They were always majoring in something nebulous like Transgendered Pacific Islander Studies or Peace Studies, all of which should have been named Pander Until Caught Embezzling Studies.

[Graybeard58]

Never lay your credit or debit card on a tray for a waiter to take with him to a cash register. It may not be fool proof but why make it easy for criminals?

[Emperor Palpatine]

"Waitress Shena Everett.....(with) her two co-defendants, Carlton Lewis and Derron Ridley,"


Let me guess....Holder's people?

[cowtowney]

This is why restaurants bring the portable cc scanner to your table in many countries.

[cynwoody]

Photo by U.S. Marshals Service

Much better story here.

[geezerwheezer]

Some folks will do anything to keep from having to go to the University of Georgia!! (with love from a Tech man!)

[TennesseeGirl]

Thanks. The reason I didn’t source the Knoxville News Sentinel is because they don’t allow us to use their entire articles due to copyright infringement. I pieced portions from KNS along with The Advocate and a local tv station. I rarely use the Sentinel as a posting source because they’re so pissy about it.