Linda Thom forwarded this story with the suggestion that I check out the ringleaders' names:Babar Qureshi and Muhammad Shafiq.
'Massive' $200M Credit Card FraudBy 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.
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