02/05/2013
By Linda Thom forwarded this story with the suggestion that I check out the ringleaders' names:Babar Qureshi and Muhammad Shafiq.
'Massive' $200M Credit Card Fraud
By AARON KATERSKY | ABC News — 4 hrs ago
Eighteen people have been charged in what federal prosecutors in New Jersey called one of the largest credit card fraud schemes ever uncovered by the U.S. Department of Justice, spanning 28 states and eight countries.
"The defendants are part of a massive international fraud enterprise involving thousands of false identities, fraudulent identification documents, doctored credit reports and more than $200 million in confirmed losses," FBI Special Agent James Simpson said in court records.[More]
I wondered if there were more names, so I hunted down the official press release:
Eighteen people charged in international, $200 million Credit card fraud scam
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 5, 2013
Crime Ring Invented 7,000 Fake Identities to Obtain Tens of Thousands of Credit Cards
This has a useful table of international names, and next to each of them is a location in the United States. I'd like to see a table of their countries of origin, but we'll just have to infer that from the names, as usual. We'll have to, because none of the stories in Google News use the word "immigrant".
Defendants: Name Age Residence Babar Quereshi 59 Iselin, N.J. Muhammad Shafiq 38 Bellerose, N.Y. Ijaz Butt 53 Hicksville, N.Y. Qaiser Khan 48 Valley Stream, N.Y. Shafique Ahmed 52 Floral Park, N.Y. Habib Chaudhary 45 Valley Stream, N.Y. Raghbir Singh 57 Hicksville, N.Y. Muhammad Naveed 35 Flushing, N.Y. Khawaja Ikram 40 Staten Island, N.Y. Nasreen Akhtar 37 Jersey City, N.J. Mohammad Khan 48 Staten Island, N.Y. Azhar Ikram 39 Howard Beach, N.Y. Shahid Raza, a/k/a “Abid Mian” 44 Valley Stream, N.Y. Vernina Adams 31 Philadelphia, Pa. Sat Verma 60 Iselin, N.J. Vijay Verma 45 Iselin, N.J. Tarsem Lal 74 Iselin, N.J. Vinod Dadlani 49 Lyndhurst, N.J. 13-061
Qureshi, Babar, et al., Complaint