A Florida judge slapped a former nation resident with a 65-month prison sentence Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to prices linked to a phone cloning ring.
Braulio De Los Angeles Cruz Vasquez, fifty-four, turned into a part of a “state-of-the-art global cellular phone fraud scheme” that stole access to human beings’ accounts and fraudulently opened new ones using their private records, the USA Department of Justice stated in a declaration.
The installation a “name web page” in his West Palm Beach home and used the stolen information to re-program telephones he managed, the branch stated.
From there, De Los Angeles Cruz’s co-conspirators (4 of whom have already been sentenced) might make international calls via the net and he’d route them through the cloned telephones — making the humans whose information had been stolen foot the bills, in step with the plea settlement.
He admitted that his partners sent him around 2,158 numbers owned via US phone account holders among 2011 and 2013 and that he got tens of thousands of greenbacks from at least one Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) company for routing global calls, the DOJ mentioned.
De la Cruz is a citizen of the Dominican Republic and changed into extradited from that u. S. A. To face the prices. He became charged with 3 counts of fraud, two associated with illegal telecom tool use and one for identity robbery.
