I.D. Thief Steals More Identities While Behind Bars
A man charged with identity theft managed to steal additional credit card numbers while in a California state prison.
The Los Angeles Times reports that an identity thief was sentenced to an additional eight years in a federal prison for orchestrating a bank fraud scheme while still behind bars. Morocco Curry, 37, also known as Monica Dupree, was originally serving a three-year sentence at Centinela State Prison in Imperial, California for bank fraud and identity theft.
While the details are sketchy, the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles said that Curry acquired the credit card numbers and other personal information from at least four people. Prosecutors said that Curry made three-way calls with conspirators living outside the prison, and gave them the sensitive information. They in turn contacted credit card issuers and requested replacement cards.
The LA Weekly adds to the report, claiming that Curry obtained the personal information from members of the prison staff. Curry and his circle of associates spent more than $28,000 before the operation was busted, however the LA Times said that the credit card companies lost more than $139,000 from the scheme.
Curry pleaded guilty to the new charges on Monday, and was hauled off to a federal prison. "I consider you dangerous,” Judge Robert H. Whaley said during the hearing. Unfortunately, the report doesn't specify how he managed to collect credit card numbers in the first place, or why his calls—placed from within the state prison--weren't monitored.
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This is just EPIC!
Brings a whole new meaning to You, Me & Dupree.
potm
Obviously they weren't monitored because certain people turned a deaf ear to these conversations because of monetary incentives.
Fail prison with fail bars and a fail staff.
"Uh, I'm not supposed to be in prison. My name is Monica Dupree... can you let me out?"
Why do people in prison have Satellite Television and high speed internet and free meals and room and board?
mad.....this guy is ownage
They get tv & internet in prison,?!?! but..... I can't afford a TV at my tiny, one-room apartment.
Makes me want to steal a car....
On a slightly more serious note, Epic.
Just goes to show you how non effective our prison system is.
Morocco Curry?? Sounds like a Hindi Porno Name.
"I consider you dangerous" because he scammed some money and had his sentenced upped to 13 years, yet a rapist or pedo IS actually dangerous and rarely gets the same sentence?
Oh yeah, prison staff were scammed so that makes it much worse. Maybe when a pedo is sent to jail we should feed them the warden's 5-year old daughter just to make sure they get a proper f*cking sentence.
So much for the California penal system. Seems the criminals are safer doing their crimes on the inside.
i bet the the police officers were involved more than we know in some way or another
This could cheaply, and justly, be solved with a single bullet.
They should execute identity theives.
Never trust a man named Monica.
I agree wholeheartedly!!
This is why we have to isolate the interior of Wyoming with a big killzone buffer and drop these guys off in nothing more than a loincloth with a tracking device surgically inserted between their lungs.
Law Abiding Citizen 2
Law Abiding Citizen 2
I wonder if we can get a law passed to legalize human hunting. I hate ID thieves. Ruin your life to enrich theirs. There is no justice in most cases of ID theft and it's very hard to get back what you lost be it financial, emotional or time. I deem ID thieves to be very dangerous.
My name is buford t justice and i am the law !!!!!
Epic picture thumb for that...made my day
My name is buford t justice and i am the law !!!!!
Epic picture thumb for that...made my day
ahh sry for duble post