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SEATTLE – Three people are charged in an alleged identity theft ring, skimming credit and debit card information from fast food customers at a Tukwila Wendy's restaurant.

Maria Elena DeHoyos-Ortiz, 33, Linzy Jerome Hopkins, 27, and Ricardo Ricky Ramacho, II, 28, are charged with multiple counts of conspiracy to commit identity theft. King County Sheriff's Detectives say they compromised at least 135 accounts to the tune of approximately $75,000, and that number could grow.

"First, they ran a $27 amount and then two minutes later it was $327, and it put me overdraft," said Gloria, one of the fraud victims who asked that we not give her full name.

In probable cause documents, detectives say an investigator at Boeing Employee's Credit Union noticed several of the bank's customers were showing fraudulent activity. The investigator identified the Wendy's restaurant at 15010 International Boulevard as the likely place where the accounts were compromised.

Detectives believe DeHoyos-Ortiz, an employee at the restaurant, used a handheld credit card skimmer to steal the information while she was at work. The alleged skimming happened between Sept. 14, 2009 and July 21, 2010.

Court documents say Wendy's requires employees to include their employee ID number for each sale. Of the customer cards that were counterfeited, detectives say DeHoyos Ortiz' ID number was used in every transaction.

DeHoyos-Ortiz, Hopkins and Ramacho allegedly used the information to make purchases. Detectives say the fraudulent purchases were often made months after the skimming happened, in order to throw police off the suspects' trail.

Detectives say they have surveillance video from several retailers showing the suspects making transactions using the stolen card numbers.

After arresting DeHoyos-Ortiz at work, detective searched two homes and three vehicles linked to the suspects. They allegedly found two card skimmers, a card reader/encoder, credit card stock, gift cards, a computer and numerous Playstation gaming systems.

Several credit and gift cards were confiscated. Detectives say in most cases, none of the numbers encoded on the magnetic stripe matched the numbers on the front of the cards. Detectives say there were able to link some of the cards back to the list of cards run by DeHoyos Ortiz.

Arraignment is scheduled for August 5.

KING 5 went to DeHoyos-Ortiz' home Wednesday. A woman who answered the door said she was unaware that DeHoyos-Ortiz, the mother of two young children, was involved.

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Another Skimmer Case!!

Yet another story about a server who was skimming cards and using a card re-encoder to create fraudulent cards with the skimmed information!.

CLEARWATER – A restaurant worker was arrested June 23 for alleged identity theft and credit card fraud, according to a Clearwater Police report.

Mircea Ciornei, 31, of Land O’Lakes was a server at the Tuscano Grille on McMullen-Booth Road, and while working, he obtained several credit card numbers from customers, the report said. He then allegedly fraudulently used the credit card numbers by re-encoding the card numbers on various gift cards, the report said. The suspect then proceeded to make purchases throughout the Tampa Bay area using the gift cards with the stolen credit card numbers, the report said.

Clearwater Police Economic Crimes Detectives identified the suspect and developed probable cause for his arrest. Clearwater police officers stopped the suspect in his vehicle as he left work. The suspect allegedly presented false identification, as his license was revoked, and he was then arrested and taken into custody.

Ciornei was charged with four counts of identity theft, scheme to defraud, criminal use of personal identification, three counts of forgery of a credit card, driving while license is suspended or revoked, providing false identification to law enforcement, and unlawful use of a license. More charges are pending. He was released from the Pinellas County Jail on a $20,650 bond.

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"Some credit card numbers sell for less than $1 on this market"

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Police said they're uncovering an underground network of people who look to buy and sell consumer credit and debit card numbers, including victims in the Oklahoma City area.Police said the victims eat meals at area restaurants and later discover that their cards are being used all over the country just hours later.A credit card security expert said the practice is commonly known as skimming."It's kind of like a Craigslist for thieves," said Kevin Haley of Symantec Norton Online Security. "You see supply and demand setting price. The value of the cards themselves, it's just like an open bazaar where buyers and sellers come together offering goods and looking to buy the goods and then they go off to a secret place to kind of finish their deal."

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