14 DAY TRIAL // A 40-year-old man from Los Angeles, California, was found guilty and sentenced to jail after authorities discovered a number of 300,000 profiles in his possession, which he utilized to forge credit cards and IDs.
According to CNET, Robert Delgado was captured after a US Postal Inspector began an investigation as a result of a complaint filed by someone whose identity had been stolen. The victim claimed that he'd found bank accounts registered to him that he did not request.
After doing some digging, the inspector, Eve Williams, found a mobile phone number on a Facebook profile that had been utilized to place numerous calls to a bank. It later turned out that the number was connected to Delgado, but since he had no official business with the financial institution, the investigator quickly realized something was fishy.
The bank involved was GE Money Bank, which guaranteed JC Penny accounts that were picked up by Delgado from an accomplice. The calls were made to verify the credit on the cards.
Williams then obtained a warrant to track the suspect's phone and, after being spotted on a surveillance footage while using a forged credit card to by electronics, he was charged.
Once the police raided his house, they found in his possession a hard drive that contained the hundreds of thousands of victim profiles from which he chose when he proceeded in his evil operations.
It's not quite certain how he got hold of the data, but it seems that there were a lot of victims from banks such as HSBC, Citibank and Target National Bank.
After admitting to his crimes early this year, the judge served him a sentence of eight years in prison and an additional five years of supervised release. It looks as this is not the first time Delgado was up to no good, at the time of his arrest in March being on parole for identity theft.