Two Connecticut males face federal prices for allegedly defrauding FanDuel and different on-line playing websites of $3 million over a number of years utilizing the stolen identities of roughly 3,000 victims.
29-year-olds Amitoj Kapoor and Siddharth Lillaney, each of Glastonbury, Connecticut, have been arrested Thursday following a 45-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury and have been every launched on a $300,000 bond.
Based on the indictment, they purchased the stolen personally figuring out data (PII) of 1000’s of individuals from darknet markets and the Telegram messaging platform, then, with the assistance of a number of accomplices, used it to create 1000’s of fraudulent accounts on playing websites (together with FanDuel, Draft Kings, and BetMGM) between April 2021 and 2026.
The defendants additionally allegedly maintained subscriptions to background-check providers corresponding to TruthFinder and BeenVerified to acquire extra data required to go verification questions when opening the playing accounts.
To maintain the stolen PII organized, Kapoor created a “Tracker.xlsx” spreadsheet containing victims’ PII, together with names, dates of beginning, addresses, e-mail addresses, cellphone numbers, and Social Safety numbers.
“l’ve simply been going via the listing of Social Safety numbers and utilizing the reverse cellphone search on the rip-off defend app,” Kapoor allegedly informed Lillaney in a textual content message. “If the identify matches, I simply make that account. Did not even need to open BeenVerified for the final 8 accounts I made that method.”
Prosecutors stated the scheme focused promotional bonuses provided by on-line playing platforms to new customers who made preliminary deposits or bets.
When bets positioned utilizing promotional credit received, the defendants transferred their winnings to digital stored-value playing cards that have been allowed for FanDuel deposits and withdrawals. They then moved the fraudulent proceeds to financial institution and funding accounts underneath their management.
The indictment prices Kapoor and Lillaney with a number of offenses, together with:
- Conspiracy to commit wire and identification fraud (1 depend, as much as 5 years),
- Wire fraud (23 counts, as much as 20 years every),
- Identification fraud (8 counts, as much as 15 years every),
- Aggravated identification theft (2 counts, obligatory 2-year consecutive sentence),
- Cash laundering conspiracy (1 depend, as much as 20 years),
- Cash laundering (10 counts, every as much as 20 years).
“As alleged, these two males used 1000’s of stolen identities to open on-line playing accounts and exploit new person incentives, which for a number of years allowed them to gamble with stolen cash,” U.S. David X. Sullivan stated.
“People who commit identification theft of this magnitude should be punished to the fullest extent of the legislation. It is alleged these charged triggered immeasurable hardship to the victims of their identification theft scheme,” added IRS Particular Agent in Cost Thomas Demeo.
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